One-String Blues [Import]

Jones & Hazleton | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 24, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Ace/Takoma
• ASIN: B000007ZRT
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #274,865 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. One String Three Quarter

2. Rolling And Tumbling Blue

3. Walk With Me Lord

4. Come Back Baby

5. John Henry

6. I'll Be Your Chauffer

7. It's Raining Here

8. Baby Please Don't Go

9. Dozens

10. Mocking The Train, Mockin

11. Poor Boy Travelling From

12. Hard Rock Is My Pillow

13. Motherless Children Have

14. Throw A Poor Dog A Bone

15. Red River Blues

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Primitive gem of lost Americana, March 2, 2006

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Shane W. Speal (York, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One-String Blues (Audio CD)

Eddie "One String" Jones was discovered in LA's Skid Row carrying a instrument made from a 2x4 plank, a single broom wire, bottles and a paint bucket. The instrument was unmistakably a 'diddley bow,' the fabled one-string instrument played by poor children in the South.

But Eddie wasn't a child...and he wasn't anywhere near the Mississippi Delta. He was an eccentric musician who played his diddley bow with passion and precision. He really believed he was a major musician (read the liner notes to the cd...they're very detailed about the experience) and his playing proved him right.

It's one thing to play slide guitar using frets and position markers to guide your slide hand. It's another to play incredible tunes on a 2x4 with broom wire. Eddie "One String" Jones should be classified as a slide guitar legend because of his pitch and skill. His slide hand (he used a whisky bottle as a slide) hits each note perfectly.

I love this cd and have let many many friends borrow it. If you like slide guitar, blues, O Brother Where Art Thou music or anything labeled "outsider music," then you'll want to get this disc. You'll thank me later.

-Shane Speal

curator of the National Cigar Box Guitar Museum.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Real music from scratch!, December 7, 2007

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Stephen A. Mathews "CBG Ukester" (Kansas City MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One-String Blues (Audio CD)

Eddie "One String" Jones dialogue and songs accompanied by his home made "one-string" or zither monochord (as the liner notes describe it)are offerings that should be experienced by anyone interested in the history of American music. How refreshing to hear the old blues standards like ROLLING AND TUMBLING or BABY PLEASE DON'T GO played on "One String's" single stringed instrument. The street musician's explanations and autobiographical remarks are equally compelling. Perhaps one of the most interesting things about the recording is the story of the man himself, discovered in the skid row section of Los Angeles in 1960 and recorded in the window of an abandoned building and never re-located that he might hear the recordings of his music. All of the elements of a folk hero. Much gratitude to Frederick Usher who recognized the importance of documenting this man who; using a length of 2 x 4 , a couple nails, and a length of baling wire, will change many of your preconceptions about music.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Real Deal!, February 3, 2011

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K. Lahti "musician" (central WV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One-String Blues (Audio CD)

It is so fortunate that this music was recorded. Both the one string slide and the harmonica are roots blues at it finest. It is real human feeling and storytelling with obviously no slickness added. If you like the blues of the streets and of the people, rather than the blues of the studios and the charts, this CD is for you. I'm lucky to have found it. Get it while it is available- it won't be around forever.
I am a slide guitarist and this is inspiring me to build a 1 or 2 string slide instrument out of household materials.