Floyd Jones - Stockyard Blues

[distressed7]

Still good. No time can erase good music. It's always out there somewhere.

[mscotthorn]

wasn't he a piano player primarily?

[lupine22]

@mscotthorn No, he was a guitarist. Check out his wikipedia entry.

[MyWoodstock1]

@mscotthorn he played ith sunnyland slim bak n da 50's he waz featured on sunnyland slim and pals, sunnyland slim would play piano while floyd jones would sing

[augustoblues89]

Awesome song!

[beta757]

Awesome!

[Sixgutstringable]

Floyd says he didn;t "make it." You did Floyd. You did.

[busessuck1]

@Sixgutstringable well yeah his "success" is undoubtable, but I kinda feel like it's a shame seeing such a talented man feeling down on himself

[djtdub1]

Floyd Jones also performed this song live in a public TV documentary about the closing of the Chicago stockyards. He sang it at banquet for the closing ceremonies.

[djtdub1]

Floyd Jones also sang this song in a public TV documentary about the closing of the

Chicago stockyards. He sang it from near (or at) the podium at the banquet table at the closing ceremony. 

[Sixgutstringable]

What humility. It breaks my heart to hear him say he didn't make it and catch on like Muddy and the rest. I think the rest of us can raise our glass to Floyd. A real working musician. You made it, man. You made it.

[b5b9]

What a great clip. Thanks for posting it.

[bigfrank1961]

The recordings he did with Eddie Taylor were GREAT....."Don't your peaches look kind of mellow, Hanging way up on your top limb"....Hello to you R.Ross ftom Big Frank in S.I.

[gitfiddlejim]

Now we are gettin into the naughty stuff, Squeeze my Lemons till the juice runs down my leg. Verses used by quite a few, Johnson, Dan Picket, Yank Rachell. Please let me be your lemon squeezer. 

Double meaning at its finest.

G

[RobertRossBand]

Floyd Jones was an amazing songwriter, guitarist, bassist, and singer. And he was the nicest cat you could ever want to meet. I got to work with him in Chicago for awhile along with Homesick James, and Big John Wrencher, and it was just an awesome experience. You're the best Floyd!!!

[67rene]

i like these privat settings living room recordings the best. Great !

[gitfiddlejim]

Yor right 67, because the Blues is a folk music, in the real sense of the word, not shobiz blues,so it was made in the one room country shacks of the cotton fields, so is ideal in a livin room in Chicago, Atlanta, Durham,, NC. where ever these talented guys & gals were found.

Wonderfull stuff!

Gitfiddlejim.

In case you are curious, gitfiddle jim was Kokomo Arnolds other recording name.

[IndigoBlu736]

Floyd Jones went to Parchman Penitentiary for a while for killing a guy (just like Lead Belly). I don't know what it was over tho..

[AlexGronstad]

1 word! AWESOME!

[fabriblues]

REAL BLUES HISTORY , AWESOME¡¡¡

[joe0ray]

Nice

[Aibo44]

For all our younger friends, this gentlemen was a favorite bluesman of Syd Barret .... the name of the band comes from Floyd Anderson and Pink Anderson .... history is a circle .. hehehehehe. Michel - Belgium.

[lupine22]

Sorry, Michel, but you are quite wrong. Pink Floyd was named after Syd's favorite Piedmont bluesmen, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council, a thousand miles from Chicago!

[HenryGeee]

heh,right man:P