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Thanks to fat possum for putting Paul on my radar screen, this is gritty, greasy, nasty, guitar driven blues, the stuff I seek out that doesn't get mentioned in blues compilations,or played on blues shows (even on XM), but this is the music that is like sweet butter to the ears. Paul is no longer with us, but the music on these recordings will please forever. This is "the good stuff."

I can't believe nobody's reviewed this yet. You like blues? You like your blues raw, dirty, greasy and funky? Then I think you oughta buy this album. It ain't polished and it ain't pretty but it's d#$n good! It's like having the sound of pure, raw, Mississippi juke joint blues performed in your very own living room. I own a lot of blues albums and I'm not exaggerating to say that this goes in my Top 10.

I've known Paul almost all my life.Sometimes on a hot, muggy Belzoni day, i'll head down to see him. Around here, everyone just sees another guy doin' an honest day's work, which he does, but, outside of this little town, Paul Jones is a huge hit.people all over the world see him every day.this average-looking welder is an extraordinary,million dollar musician.

What is so surprising that he is a welder. Muddy Waters was driving a truck until he could make enough money from music to stop. Chuck Berry was building cars and got into his first club work more cause he thought he could make more money painting the walls of the club than playing in it, and he still remembers how much that check was. Heck, Scrapper Blackwell was a bootlegger which may not have been too good for his buddy Leroy Carr who died of alcoholism.

Most blues singers and other musicians who haven't made the big time work when they can get it. I am sitting at work all sweaty from just putting up eight big cylinders of gas here at the bus garage, but I also play guitar, fiddle, banjo and am a figure in the traditional music world.

Working people aren't dummies. In fact, in every job once I let folks know I play a little, folks I work with really show me that though I have been at it performing for 40 years, I just play a little compared to what they can do.

I don't think this music is raw or rough either. This is the serious work of an artist trying to speak the language of the soul, the language we brought here from Africa. I hate the condescension that goes on where folks look at anything that comes from real folks as being raw, primitive, whatever. The blues especially as heard here is an art deep and personal, touching, and moving one to think feel, and above all dance.

That ain't simple, that ain't raw!

I have played with PAUL JONES for about 15 years. His wife, bessy, raised me while my parents worked, back in the seventies. That's how my brother Sid and I learned how to play the blues!!!This record wasn't pauls fist recording but it was his first on a major label. This recording is really good but you really have to see Paul live to catch the showmanship he posesses. Hats off to Mathew Johnson and Bruce Watson at FAT POSSUM RECORDS IN OXFORD MISSISSIPPI.

This is "old black guy blues" not the honkey waste of time stuff! GREAT!

this is awesome paul is a welder