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14 years old with my
first car and spiffy "mod" suit...

1972 - Can you say John Lennon?

1977 with Roanoke - Dan Huckabee, Joe Carr,
Jim Grotjon, and me with my Gary Price banjo.

1983 posing for the cover of my
chicken pickin' electric guitar instruction book.

Me and Joe Carr jamming 1989

Gig with Texas Shorty (Jim Chancellor -
you can just see his fiddle), Leigh Taylor and me.
I don't know who the man with the red hat is...

Playing with Michael Murphy in 1982
The hat belongs to the bass player behind me.

Mary Duren and me playing with the
Dallas Lyric Opera. Looks like a Far Side cartoon...

Moonstruck String Band 1979
Tommy Houston, Fred Gumar, Paul Glasse
and me. I'm the one in the hat...

Alan Munde, Missy Raines, Wayne Shrubsall,
Tony Trischka, Bill Evans, me, and Steve Smith.
Wayne is the one in the hat...

My father, Elbert Jones (seated with electric guitar)
That's a 1957 Strat I let him sell...Dang...

My Dad in CCC camp during the depression.
He's the one with the guitar... and the hat...

My Dad playing at KGAF radio circa 1959.

I shouldn't have jammed all night long..
Glenrose TX 1974. I'm the one in the hat...

Showing how to play a chord that
has more notes than you have fingers.
Or I'm playing the snot out of it! That's the
great Stealth banjo I let get away...Dang...

Me and Earl! At John Hartford's house.

Fiddling with Dale Morris Sr.
That's a great Maggani copy
fiddle I let get away... Dang...
I'm the one in the hat...

Ever wonder what happens if you photocopy
your face? Joe Carr wanted to title it "New
process reveals amazing image in Shroud of Turin!"

Picking with Bob Davis of the Stone Mountain Boys
in 1972 in a hanger. I'm the one in the hat...

My Grandfther's Clock impersonation.
My grandfather always wore a hat...

Bach Norwood (Bach, great name for a musician)
Loretta Lynn and me. Bach found the hat at a gig.

With Texas Shorty at the Athens Texas
fiddle contest around 1993. That's a
1937 000-18 I let get away... Dang...
I think that's Henry Kissinger in the hat...

Uncle Calvin's Coffee House with Texas Shorty.

With Colby Logan & Anytown at the
Texas Theater in Waxahatchie...

In the studio in 1981 on a project of mine
with Mark O'Connor, Jerry Douglas,
Texas Shorty, Bill Millet, Sam Bush and others.
Funk/Fusion/Jazz. Sort of Weather Report meets
Flatt and Scruggs.

John Travolta look out!

Scott Vestal, me and Bill Keith at Camp Bluegrass.
We're the ones in the hats...

Winfield Contest. No hat on me...

Texas Shorty and a hatless John Hartford.

Robert Bowlin and Hank Tompson (in hat).

Winfield again but I've got a hat this time...

My son, Ian Nathaniel Django Jones
with the dobro banjo I got from Alan Munde.
This is his orchestra photo. He was supposed
to be holding his violin...

My daughter Hannah at Camp Bluegrass circa 1990.

Hannah in the Aggie Band. She plays percussion.
Fish don't get to wear hats... or boots... 2006.

My wife Leigh with Segovia at his home
in Madrid, 1982. Segovia is holding his hat...

In the studio with Vince Gill, Thom Bresh,
and Mr. and Mrs. Hank Tompson.

Picking at John Hartford's house with Texas Shorty.

My Dad playing at a rodeo. He traded off
that white 1954 Telecaster... Dang...

1977 with Roanoke - Dan Huckabee, Joe Carr,
me and Jim Groetjon.

Me and Sonny Osborne backstage at the Opry.
Sonny is the one with the hat...

Dallas Lyric Opera gig.

Alan Munde, Missy Raines, Wayne Shrubsall (in hat),
Tony Trischka, Bill Evans, and me.

1985. Ain't I cute...

At the Saloon in Dallas 1983. Texas Shorty,
Bill Millet, Mike Anderson, Joe Carr and
me with sunglasses and hat-like hair...

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