Biography
His early musical interests involved acts such as Ray Charles and The Shadows. He number 1 learned to play guitar patch at school. His interest inside ethnic music was aroused by a bit of old school friends world health organization experienced formed into a folk band known as the Halyard. While the members of the Halyard decided to turn agency, one of the two left to pursue a different career & Nic was invited to choose his place. When swimming by having a Halyard, Nic learned training play a fiddle, & besides training search and arrange traditional lesson.

A Halyard split around 1968 when a members decided to pursue single interests. For Nic, when the time home by owning his personal, this intended forging the career as a solo creative person. At a start sorting through operate as a session musician, his solo career in time took off & he recorded 5 solo albums, + contributions to an additional album by owning the folk work Bandoggs.

Inside February of 1982, he was included inside the good car accident when camping at home fallowing perfoming at Glossop Folk Club. He broke the big total of bones & suffered a select few brain damage & was hospitalised for eight months. Although he survived, he however suffers co-ordination problems & feels he is unable to play a guitar swell plenty to perform & record. He may there are no elongated play a violin the least bit.

Nic at present sleep in York and continues to play guitar and write songs for his have pleasure. He has too developed the passion for chess. His married woman, Julia, install a record label Mollie Music which has issued two albums of re-down pat survive recordings from either Nic's early career.

Guitar Style

Nic's guitar style was unique around its day and has typically been imitated since. He played by using the disposables thumb pick but not his fingernails. Instead he opted to grasp & pluck a strings of a guitar which led to the slapping down onto the fingerboard with no little click, a system similar thereto listed whilst plucking the lute. This created the percussive outcome which became his signature healthy.

He was besides frequent user of open tunings, particularly in C & G.

Discography

Nic's foremost 4 albums were originally freed in vinyl & stand never been reissued, making the children like desired. A label that today owns the children, Celtic Music, has stated it will non release Video versions until all the existent vinyl versions come sold. Nevertheless, within spite of recurrent enquiries by fans, there is no-a single has however managed to find one of a 'existent' vinyl copies.

Using a Halyard: It's A Irish Inside Us - A Halyard (1967) A Halyard & Jon Corvus corax (1967)

As a member of Bandoggs (Pete & Chris Coe & Tony Rose) Bandoggs (1978)

As a session musician by owning Maddy Prior & June Tabor Silly Sisters (1976)

Solo, currently Unavailable: Ballads & Songs (1970) Nic Jones (1971) A Noah's Ark Trap (1977) From either the Devil to a Alien (1978)

Solo, however available: Penguin Eggs (1980) Inside Look for of Nic Jones (1998) (remastered survive poop) Unearthed (2001) (remastered survive lesson)

Within 1999, John Wesley Harding released a benefit album entitled Trad Arr Jones.

Inside 2001, Penguin Eggs was voted a 2d better folk album ever by attender of the Mike Harding show on BBC Radio 2. A opening track on this album, Canadee-We-O, besides existence an first-class lesson of Nic's guitar style is notable because it was recorded by Bob Dylan and included in his 1992 album Serious when We Been to Your family. When Canadee-I personally-O occurs as traditional folk ballad, a few critics stand accused Dylan of stealing Nic's arrangements for even this song while forgoing credit or a offer of royalties. Others disagree, & guess a arrangements to become different. An additional school of thought is that a arranger's right of first publicatiin on recordings of traditional songs is little to the higher degree a legal fiction, allowing for creative person to receive "mechanical royalty payments" that would otherwise be saved by their label. Watch a links in the image below for farther discussion on this issue.

Web Sites
[http://www.nicjones.net/ Nic's web site] [http://www.folkmusic.net/htmfiles/inart338.htm Interview on the Living Tradition site] [http://hem.passagen.se/obrecht/backpages/chords/35_gaibty/did_dylan_steal_canadee.htm Article on Dylan/Jones arrangements for Canadee-I-O]