In the 1970s, he played bass in a local band called Freddy Morrison & the Bandana Blues, and had a minor songwriting success with Randy Cornor's hit "Heart Don't Fail Me Now".
[3] Jones wrote all ten of the songs on the album, including his own rendition of "Living in the Promiseland", and co-produced it with Richie Albright and Mick Ronson.
[1] By the end of the decade, he worked as a writer for Blue Water Music, in addition to running a recording studio in Bexar.
[1] Jones was the victim of a case of identity theft in the early 2000s, which made releasing additional albums difficult for fear that any royalty checks would be stolen by the perpetrators.
[7] Thom Owens of Allmusic wrote that Hard Times on Easy Street "showcases a talent that arrived fully formed.