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Mike Vernon, who by now had his Blue Horizon record label. Vernon

recounts that although Jones had been very easy to work with on the ‘In
London’ album, things were a little more strained this time around. This

may have had something to do with the difficulties he was having in
continuing his career, with

work so scarce, but Vernon
acknowledges that he was

professional enough to get the

job done, and to follow the
agreement they had not to

re-record any of his old
material. Once again, Jones

was persuaded to play guitar
on four tracks, and he was

accompanied throughout by

upright bass and drums
(Brian Brocklehurst (sb) and

Dougie Wright (dms) Ed). The
entire album was recorded in

one day (2nd July 1968) and
released on Blue Horizon as

‘Now Resident in Europe’.

Evidently, Jones was very excited about the album, claiming that this one

would put him at “the top of the tree”, but unfortunately it was lost in the
sheer number of blues albums released that year, many of which showed

that Jones music was perhaps a representation of a bygone era.

He was understandably upset by the experience, which only seemed to

indicate that the bad luck accompanying him for much of his life would

simply not let him be.

That said, he was added to the Lippmann Rau American Folk-Blues Festival
for 1968, which visited 10 countries across Europe, and gave him exposure

outside of the small clubs he had previously been working for so many years.
Blues author Tony Russell tells us that he would walk on to the stage

clutching a copy of the Blue Horizon album, which would be propped up
against the microphone stand to remind the audience that he had a new

recording for sale. He also forsook the piano during the festival, in order to

perform a few songs on guitar. This apparently did not go down too well