Jack Owens

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#1 Jack Owens (November 17, 1904 – February 9, 1997) was an American Delta blues singer and guitarist, from Bentonia, Mississippi, United States. #2 John Milton "Jack" Owens (October 17, 1912, Tulsa, Oklahoma - January 26, 1982, Phoenix, Arizona), singer/songwriter, gifted pianist, and a star of the longest running network radio show. #1 Jack Owens, born L. F. Nelson, mother was Celia Owens, his father, who bore the Owens surname, abandoned his family when Jack was 5–6 years old. After that time, he was raised by the Owens family, with his maternal grandfather the patriarch of 8 children according to the 1910 Census, and of them, two other children officially shared the Nelson name. (This does not account for two more children born after the census.) While very young, Owens learned some chords on the guitar from his father, and an uncle, and learned to play the fife, the fiddle, and piano while still a child, but his chosen instrument remained the guitar. As he matured, Owens did not seek to become a professional recording artist, but he farmed, bootlegged and ran a weekend juke joint in Bentonia for most of his life. His peer, Skip James, had left home and traveled until he found a talent agent and a record label to sign him, but Owens had preferred to remain at home, selling potliquor and performing only on his front porch. He was not recorded until the blues revival of the 1960s, being rediscovered by a musicologist, David Evans, in 1966, who had been taken to meet Owen

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It Must Have Been The Devil

Bentonia Country Blues

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Africa and the Blues (Connections and Reconnections)

Blues At Home 8

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Billboard Top Pop Singles Of 1947

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Billboard Top 30 of 1947

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Bottleneck Blues

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Which Way Does The Blood River Flow

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Radio Hits Of The 40's 1947

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50 YEARS Mississippi Blues in Bentonia

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Blues Sweet Blues

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last giants of mississippi blues

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