Floyd Jones
Floyd Jones was an American blues singer and guitarist born on July 21, 1917 in
Marianna. Jones achieved professional recognition for a musical career
characterized by electric blues and the Chicago blues idiom. He achieved
professional recognition for a career that began after the musician Howling Wolf
gave him a guitar and he performed as an itinerant musician. Jones achieved
professional recognition for moving to Chicago in 1945 and performing on Maxwell
Street with the musician Little Walter and the musician Jimmy Rogers. His
recording career began with the song “Stockyard Bl...
