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HANDY MAN: JIMMY JONES, 1930-2012

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R.I.P. one of the greats of that oft-reviled period between Elvis gettin’ drafted and the Fabs storming the US of A… the original Handy Man!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/9459732/Jimmy-Jones.html

One of the best music pieces I ever read was this Penny Reel rumination on Jimmy from Let It Rock in 1975:

http://rocksbackpages.com/article.html?ArticleID=6926

About Barney Hoskyns

Barney Hoskyns co-founded and editorially directs Rock’s Backpages. He is the author of, among other books, Across the Great Divide: The Band & America (1993), Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes & the Sound of Los Angeles (1996), Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters & Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons (2006), the Tom Waits biography Lowside of the Road (2009) and Trampled Under Foot, the oral history of Led Zeppelin (2012). Formerly US correspondent for MOJO, he resides in London's leafy East Sheen, the birthplace of rock and roll.

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