AL JONES (AND THE SPRUCE MOUNTAIN BOYS)
- From Whitetop, Virginia.
- Early 1960’s, played guitar with Earl Taylor’s Stoney Mountain Boys.
- 1965, teamed up with banjo player Frank Necessary as Al Jones, Frank Necessary and the Spruce Mountain Boys. They recorded several albums for Rounder, Old Homestead Records. Necessary died in 2011.
- 1987, released “Frank Necessary, Al Jones and Buzz Busby” on Old Homestead Records.
- 2014, released Hard Core Bluegrass
album (Mountain Fever) at the age of 81.
- 2018, released Just a Memory album (Patuxent).
- 2024, died at the age of 92.