I agree with the other reviewer here. The organ accompaniment could have been disastrous, but it works pretty well. Jones is in good voice and his piano work is in fine form. My suggestion would be to start with other Jones recordings, but for the converted it's definitely worth picking up.
So who was the first electric guitarist on a Bob Dylan single? Well, duh, you can read a headline — not Mike Bloomfield, not Robbie Robertson, but George Barnes, in 1962. The record was Mixed-Up Confusion, the band skiffling like Bill Black's combo behind Elvis. Producer John Hammond's idle comment about cutting the tune, that they even tried it with a Dixieland band, sent collectors scurrying for a lost take. But Hammond may have meant… more »
