Artist
Paul Jones of Belzoni, Mississippi, a small town with a rich blues heritage in the heart of the delta, is
a professional welder. He lives with his wife Bessie Mae in a house he purchased with the sweat of his
brow. Before becoming a welder, Jones worked in a Delta cotton gin; before that, like many of his
Delta neighbors, he worked on a farm. And throughout his adult life, Paul Jones has been a bluesman, known
and admired by a number of his fellow Delta musicians but seldom venturing far from home. His style is deeply
rooted in the
rural blues of the delta, but so distinctly original and idiosyncratic that his sound will not
easily be mistaken for that of any other artist. Rock-solid bass-string drones, expansively sonic guitar
textures, a seasoning of wah-wah riffs, and a voice that can sound vinegary, molasses-like, or simply,
urgently passionate, as the song demands - these are some of the qualities that make Paul Jones a unique
and formidable talent. (read more at Fat Possum)
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