WIZZ JONES - THE LEGENDARY ME VILLAGE THING LABLE LP c1970
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Description
Artist
Title
Lable
Sleeve
Record
Wizz Jones
The Legendary Me
The Village Thing
VTS 4
EX-/EX-
Sleeve has had 2 corners knocked and rear sleeve slightly worn as seen from photos.
EX+/EX+
Record is in superb condition with no spindle marks and just a few very light paper scratches, which have no affect on playback. The new owner will be delighted with this album.
Hard to find, rare, much sought after, call it what you will this is without doubt an extremely elusive album, much sought after on this the original Village Thing Lable.
Wizz Jones
Raymond Ronald Jones better-known as Wizz Jones is an English acoustic guitarist, singer & songwriter. He has been performing since the late 1950s and recording from 1965 to the present. Wizz has worked with many of the notable guitarists of the English folk music revival, such as John Renbourn and Bert Jansch.
Wizz became infatuated with the bohemian image of Woody Guthrie and grew his hair long. His mother had started calling him Wizzy after the Beano comic strip character "Wizzy the Wuz" because at the age of nine Raymond was a budding Musician. The nickname stuck throughout his school years and when he formed his first band "The Wranglers" in 1957 the name became permanent. In the early 1960s he went busking in Paris, and after a couple of years in Paris he married and returned to England to raise a family.
In 1965 his only single was released: Bob Dylans "Ballad of Hollis Brown".
His first solo album was Wizz Jones in 1969. Up to 1988, ten solo albums followed. Wizz was once described a having 'a right hand worthy of Broonzy', the Broonzy in question is of course legendary Country Blues Guitarist Big Bill Broonzy. Most of his recordings from this period are long out of print.
A brief excursion as a member of the traditional folk band Lazy Farmer in 1975 produced an album that was reissued in 2006. Wizz has always maintained a high level of popularity in Germany, since the mid - 1970's, he stills tours mainland Europe every year. The early 1990s were a quiet period. He almost disappeared from public view.
When in the mid-nineties he appeared on the Bert Jansch Acoustic Routes, there was renewed interest in his work. In 2001 he led John Renbourn and other members of Pentangle on the album Lucky the Man.
SLEEVE/RECORD GRADING
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All records will be sent 1st Class Royal Mail unless otherwise requested. LP's sent in purpose made cardboard mailers with two sheets of corrugated cardboard to protect item. To protect sleeve all LP's are removed form sleeve and packaged alongside item, this prevents LP damaging sleeve in transit.
*RECENT FEEDBACK NOTE*
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