At 05:01 PM 2/25/99 -0500, Jon wrote:
>Jones has said (though it will
>take me a while to find just where, David <g>) that he was influenced by
>bluegrass
Oh you don't need to look. He's said it everywhere, over and over: as a
youngun' he worshipped the Opry stars, and that meant Acuff and Monroe.
BTW, I've read the Bob Allen bio that Deborah (?) recomended, I just forgot
that part was in there. Allen's book ain't so hot--it wants to be new
journalismy, like a Hellfire or Your Cheatin' Heart, and it falls somewhere
between--but it sure as hell beats Ragged But Right, which was by, I think,
Dolly Carlisle. --david cantwell
