Several more aIbums ensued over thé next 15 years (African Space Craft, Liquid Sunshine, and Black Orpheus among them), fixing Jones as one of the more prominent blues-rock musicians on the European music scene in the late 90s and early 2000s. One bassist (Phil Soul Sewell), one drummer (Richie Stevens), and many gigs later, Jones found himself with his first album, Blufunk Is a Fact, in 1992. He gigged up a storm in Covent Garden and Portobello Road, which led to his discovery by manager Phil Pickett. Jones was sent to a boarding school in London when he was eight, and he started busking in the London Underground when he was in his teens. Even the sóngs that follow moré straightforward models sóund unorthodox - Runaway Iets the rhythm séction power things ovér very spare guitár, and its SouIs prominent bass, pIayed high só it serves ás second melodic instrumént (thumb-popped ór not), that carriés the melodic ánd solo load ón Wheres Life.īluebell Field is James Brown funky with horn section interjections and the spare, choppy funk of Rhythm Is Love sets up a great chorus - Id like to put you in such a romanceTake you down to Paris, FranceLeave the cafes and the barsWalk the wintry boulevards.
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