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Artist
Dennis Jones
12+ albums
bluesblues rockblues guitarguitarbluesrock
about
Blues guitar heroes are like a major hurricane that blows down everything in their path, changing the musical landscape as surely as category 5 tropical storms alter the terra firma. Since Stevie Ray Vaughan perished tragically in 1990, the winds of change have been brief squalls at best ~ until now. Dennis Jones, with his third release Pleasure & Pain (Blue Rock Records), has the explosive guitar power, voice and songs to make his contemporaries quake in their boots. Jones was born in Baltimore, Maryland. The drums were his first passion and they still form his relentless grooves. He started playing guitar at 13, took a few informal lessons from a friend who taught him “House of the Rising Sun” and was rocking out with his Marshall stack two years later in a band with older cats. His tastes evolved in tandem with his skills and the rock of the Rolling Stones, The Who, Bob Dylan and Santana influenced him profoundly, along with 60’s guitar greats Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Winter and Jimmy Page. Combined with blues legends B.B., Albert and Freddie King and the invincible R&B artists such as Al Green, James Brown and Motown, the result is a human music machine who can singe the strings of his Strat while singing deep from his soul. From 1977-80, Jones was in the service and stationed in Germany where he gained further experience with a variety of bands. In 1985, he made Los Angeles his home and headed a Led Zeppelin-meets-Funkadelic band called Blackhead that attracted industry at
