Guitar Gabriel
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Biography
Robert Lewis Jones, known as Guitar Gabriel and Nyles Jones, was born on October 12, 1925, in Decatur, Georgia. He began playing guitar at a young age, influenced by his family's musical background. In the 1940s, he started traveling the country playing guitar in medicine shows, collaborating with notable artists such as Bo Diddley and Muddy Waters. Jones recorded "The Welfare Blues" in 1970 under the name Nyles Jones, which became a hit in Pittsburgh and Cleveland. His album My South, My Blues was released the same year, but he did not receive royalties for it. In 1994, Tim Duffy and his wife Denise founded the Music Maker Relief Foundation, which supported Guitar Gabriel's performances at venues like the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. Robert Lewis Jones died on April 2, 1996, and is buried with his guitar in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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Top Tracks
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- I Got the Right to Cry Sometimes
- Key to the Highway
- She's Been Gone Too Long
- Do You Know What It Means to Have a Friend?
- Done Got Tired
- Came so Far
- Expressin' the Blues
- Ain't Gonna Let No Woman
- A Living Past
- Just a Little Bit
- Came Home in the Morning
- Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross
- Landlord Blues
- Old Man River
- Let No Woman
- I Came So Far
- Southland Blues featuring Timothy Duffy
- Juice Headed Woman
- Make the Best of Your Knowin'
- Late in the Evening
- Betty and De Prit
- Trying to Make 100
- Old Fashioned Love
- Southland Blues
