Tail Dragger

Veteran singer Adam Yancey Jones, aka Tail Dragger, continues to be making his existence felt for the Chicago blues picture because the ’60s. But like therefore a great many other bluesmen who focus on electric powered Chicago blues and produced their tag in the Windy Town, Tail Dragger in fact was raised in the Deep South. Tail Dragger was created on Sept 30, 1940 in Altheimer, AK, where he grew up by his grandparents and started hearing the blues as a youngster. Although he valued a number of blues when he was developing up (including acoustic Southern nation blues), electrical Chicago blues became his best curiosity. Tail Dragger’s most apparent influence continues to be Howlin’ Wolf, although his durable, gritty strategy was also suffering from Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Willie Dixon. Tail Dragger remaining Arkansas once and for all in 1966, when he transferred to the town that did one of the most to form him stylistically: Chicago. Shifting towards the city’s Western world Aspect, Tail Dragger didn’t begin getting his living from music immediately after his entrance; at first, he previously a “time gig” as a car auto mechanic. But Tail Dragger got a lucky break when he fulfilled his idol, Howlin’ Wolf, who allow him sit down in during live shows. Howlin’ Wolf, actually, started contacting him Tail Dragger because Jones frequently showed up past due for gigs (before he became referred to as Tail Dragger, Jones was referred to as Crawlin’ Adam in Chicago blues circles because he’d occasionally crawl around on to the floor when he performed). Tail Dragger’s association with Howlin’ Wolf (who passed away in 1976) do too much to boost his profile in the blues globe, but in the first ’70s, he became a full-time single musician — and Willie Kent, Hubert Sumlin, Carey Bell, Mack Simmons, Big Leon Brooks, and Eddie Shaw had been among the Chicago-based bluesmen who performed in his several rings. Tail Dragger received some harmful promotion in 1993, when he shot and wiped out fellow blues musician Bennie Joe Houston, aka Boston Blackie (b. 1943, Panola, AL). Both had simply performed jointly at a gig, and allegedly, they experienced a heated debate over payment. Tail Dragger stated he acted in self-defense; non-etheless, he was convicted of manslaughter and spent 17 a few months within an Illinois jail. But after his discharge, he wasted virtually no time resuming his musical profession. Although Tail Dragger was a fixture in Chicago blues night clubs through the entire ’70s and ’80s, and documented some singles on the way, it wasn’t before middle-’90s that he finally experienced an album obtainable. Crawlin’ Kingsnake, Tail Dragger’s 1st album, premiered within the St. George label in 1996 (the entire year he flipped 56). That disk was accompanied by a second recording, American People, that was documented in 1998 and released by Delmark the next year. Delmark released his Dvd and blu-ray, My Head Is definitely Bald: Live at Vern’s Friendly Lounge, in 2005 and released his Live at Rooster’s Lounge as both a Dvd and blu-ray an audio Compact disc in ’09 2009.