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Post by Admin on Sept 25, 2013 13:46:12 GMT -5
From wiki Johnny Jones and the King Casuals were a Nashville, Tennessee, rhythm and blues group active in the 1960s. They were regular performers at the North Nashville club district, Printer's Alley clubs, as well as often serving as the house band for the local television program, Night Train. The band, which was originally named 'The King Kasuals', was founded in 1962 by Jimi Hendrix and bassist Billy Cox in Clarksville, Tennessee, United States, after the two were discharged from the adjacent Fort Campbell Army post, and eventually relocated to Nashville. Johnny Jones (born John Albert Jones, August 17, 1936, Eads, Tennessee) moved to Chicago where he practiced the blues with Junior Wells and others. He moved back to Nashville in the early 1960s to become a session musician, and eventually assumed leadership of the King Casuals, circa 1964, replacing Hendrix. The band recorded a portfolio of singles in later years. The final recording featuring Jones was his 2001 solo release, Blues Is In the House. "Purple Haze" by Johnny Jones and the King Casuals was a popular R&B single, played in the Northern soul clubs of the Midlands and the North of England during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Johnny Jones died on October 14, 2009, at age 73. Night TrainLost History of King Kasuals
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Post by earleg on Sept 25, 2013 16:28:15 GMT -5
He was very entertaining and very cool player with a great sense of humor. Fred James produced 2 of his LPs one of which won a Handy Award "I was Raised on the Blues".
He played guitar behind Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown on the Nashville-produced R&B music TV show The!!!!Beat and was a member of the house band for the Night Train TV show. He shows up on those old Youtube videos.
I have some good video footage with stereo soundtrack of Johnny playing the Excello Legends Show from years back. It was at the 3rd and Lindsley I need to get it converted over to DVD. It was done on a Sony 8mm I did from up in their loft. It was June and hot up there!
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Post by Admin on Sept 26, 2013 7:22:37 GMT -5
He played guitar behind Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown on the Nashville-produced R&B music TV show The!!!!Beat and was a member of the house band for the Night Train TV show. He shows up on those old Youtube videos. I have some good video footage with stereo soundtrack of Johnny playing the Excello Legends Show from years back. It was at the 3rd and Lindsley I need to get it converted over to DVD. It was done on a Sony 8mm I did from up in their loft. It was June and hot up there! I would love to see that George. It must be priceless at this point... Please!!!
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Post by earleg on Sept 26, 2013 22:22:06 GMT -5
I've got to get on it and get that transferred. Fred James was going to years back but that got lost in the shuffle of him touring and so on. I need to find a place that maybe can keep the stereo although in reality it is somewhat monaural because the mics are very close to each other.
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Post by earleg on Sept 26, 2013 22:25:22 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Sept 27, 2013 2:59:06 GMT -5
Thanks George for those video links. Johnny Jones can definitely play the blues and make that ES sing!!!
We tend to overlook the contributions Johnny made to the Nashville scene don't we?
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Post by earleg on Sept 27, 2013 20:21:41 GMT -5
Yes, Earle Gaines, Roscoe Shelton, Clifford Curry included. Johnny and his wife has a BBQ restaurant out on Clarksville Hwy years back but I never got to check it out.
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