On Mother’s Day, we salute the ones who did it their way.
Daddy, Reverend Raymond Jones, took this picture on a Sunday morning in 1953 in a little town in Arkansas
That’s Mother, the pastor’s wife. That’s me holding the baby and there’s my brother, who’d just lost another battle about wearing a suit to Sunday School.
This next picture is also Mother, “Sister Fern” Jones, the songwriter/singer in her natural habitat.
Click the link below to hear her version of “Precious Lord.” I like the musical conversations between Mother and guitar virtuoso, Hank Garland, during Nashville recording sessions in the late ’50s.
“Precious Lord” https://youtu.be/xUXZJHwVEv8?si=PDrZumFGC4LFplu2