Melvyn ‘Deacon’ Jones, R.I.P. at 73

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The charismatic bluesman, who was part of the Chicago rock and soul band Baby Huey and the Babysitters in the 1960s, died of cancer July 6 in Los Angeles, where he’d lived for 23 years, said his partner Pamela Hill. He was 73.

He jammed with the likes of Muddy Waters, Carlos Santana, Gregg Allman, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton. He got signed by Curtis Mayfield — who gave him the nickname Deacon. And he spent 18 years playing with blues legend John Lee Hooker.

R.I.P. to another great Chicago blues man.

 

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