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Homesick James and Floyd Jones hanging out at Homesick's house in Chicago, Illinois, April 1974

(photographer: Bill Greensmith/Cache Agency)

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Big Walter Horton, Floyd Jones, Sunnyland Slim, Big Joe Williams, Third University of Chicago Folk Festival, Photo by Raeburn Flerlage, 1962

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Eddie Taylor and Floyd Jones

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Comenta El Indio que "Back From We The Started" de Box of Frogs, 1984, no es más que una versión rebajada de "La Grange" de ZZ Top (1973) y razón no le falta. Pero es que esas dos canciones y la anterior "On The Road Again" de Canned Heat, 1968, entre otras muchas del blues rock y el boogie rock, forman parte de una tradición originada en el blues del Delta y el boogie blues.

Una misma cadena con eslabones previos, sobre todo en el caso de "La Grange", como "Shake Your Hips" de Slim Harpo (1966, tema que versionaron los Rolling Stones en su doble LP de 1972 "Exile on Main St.", un año antes de que ZZ Top publicasen "La Grange") o "Boogie Chillen" de John Lee Hooker, 1948, bluesmen adorado por Canned Heat con el que sacaron en enero de 1971 el recordado disco doble "Hooker N´Heat".

Me informo en la red que a "On The Road Again" de Canned Heat en concreto se suma "On The Road Again" de Floyd Jones en 1953, base directa de su canción que, al parecer, se inspiró a su vez en la vieja "Big Road Blues" de Tommy Johnson del año 1928. Derivadas, continuadas, de ayer. La energia transformada no se pierde, se traslada.

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Floyd Jones - "Big World" Chicago Piano Song released in 1951. Compilation released in 1991. Blues

The deeply underappreciated bluesman, Floyd Jones, who was born in Arkansas and then became a fixture of Chicago's post-war scene, didn't actually end up producing much of a catalog himself. Although he'd played blues in the Windy City from his arrival in the mid-40s up until his death in 1989, Jones had only ended up totaling a dozen original compositions of his own throughout his long career. But when it comes to his overall lack of original recorded output, it is essential to stress quality over quantity. According to writer Justin O'Brien, who was quoted in a 1990 article in the Chicago Tribune that reported on a memorial that was held in Jones' honor after his passing, all of his works "have a consistent quality to them-this brooding intensity, this tremendous sadness."

The article continues:

Jones played with some of the greats-Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Sunnyland Slim, James Cotton and Jimmy Rogers-but he never made it big himself. The bespectacled singer wasn't even flamboyant enough to earn a nickname. His big brush with fame came when the band Canned Heat recorded a hit song called "On the Road Again," which resembled Jones' song of the same name in more than just title. Jones took on the record company and received a royalty settlement in the early 1970s.

But before Jones had actually ever recorded "On the Road Again" in 1953, he had already released its predecessor, "Dark Road," in 1951, which is pretty much the same song, but with a few different lines. And on the b-side of that record was another beaut too, "Big World," which just like its a-side, starred Floyd on vocals and guitar, but also included the aforementioned legend Sunnyland Slim on piano too, whose own intermittent bouts of fluttering and heavy pawing at his instrument contrasted nicely with the floatier and higher-pitched trumpet of Billy Howell. Just dig the big, sloppy sound that comes out on the instrumental bridge between this trio on this tune. I think it represents that thick and 'brooding intensity' that Justin O'Brien alluded to in his article about Floyd 👍.

So he never put out much music of his own throughout his decades-long career, but when Floyd Jones did, you could be rest assured that it would be solid gold, and this song here serves as a prime example.