Rare Marvel blues 78 Floyd Jones, Snooky Pryor & Moody Jones "STOCKYARD BLUES"
$
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Very Rare Marvel 702
Floyd Jones - Vocals
Accompanied by Snooky Pryor & Moody Jones
From Red Saunders Foundation web site:
Guitarist Floyd Jones, Moody's cousin, specialized in dark, brooding blues that often spoke to depressed economic and social conditions—"Stockyard Blues," "Dark Road," "Hard Times." He was born on July 21, 1917, in Marianna, Arkansas, and after several years of dabbling with the guitar began playing it in earnest after Howlin’ Wolf gave him an instrument. Through much of the 1930s and early 1940s he worked the South as an itinerant musician. After visiting Chicago a couple of times, Jones moved to the city permanently in 1945, settling in the Maxwell Street neighborhood. In the city, the blues became more electrified, and Floyd Jones, who had been playing an acoustic guitar with an electric pickup, switched to a Gibson electric. He began playing on Maxwell Street and in non-union venues with such artists as Little Walter, John Henry Barbee, and Sunnyland Slim. In the fall of 1946, Jones teamed up with Snooky Pryor, soon joined by Moody Jones.
The three were playing in a club on Sedgwick, when Chester Scales happened by and offered to record the trio, having remembered seeing Snooky on playing on the street sometime earlier. However, on the day of the session, Floyd Jones missed out on recording "Telephone Blues" and "Boogie," because he could not be located. Scales made up for it by recording the trio with Floyd Jones as the leader on "Stockyard Blues" and "Keep What You Got," two classics of postwar Chicago blues written by Jones.
Much to Jones’s everlasting distress, when the record was released, Scales put Snooky and Moody down on the label as the main artists, and listed Floyd as mere vocalist. He (Chester Scales) also claimed composition credit on both titles.
Rare Marvel 702
"STOCKYARD BLUES" Listen to both sides
B/W
"KEEP WHAT YOU GOT"
VJM Grading System
Photo 3 & 4 shows crack which clicks, but no skip.
GOOD FILLER
V (78) Moderate, even wear throughout, but still very playable. Surface noise and scratches & crack audible but not intrusive
Nice clean labels ( see photo )
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