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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
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