[6] He first learned to play guitar as a young teenager and early musical influences included such artists as The Shadows, Duane Eddy, Chet Atkins, Wes Montgomery and Ray Charles.

During his career, Jones was much in demand as a session musician and he guested on albums by leading UK artists such as June Tabor, Shirley Collins, Barbara Dickson, Richard Thompson and many others.

Jones joined fellow folk singers Jon Raven and Tony Rose for the 1973 trio album Songs of a Changing World.

[1] Returning home by car after a gig at Glossop Folk Club, on the road between Peterborough and March in Cambridgeshire, Jones, tired, inadvertently drove into a lorry pulling out of Whittlesea brickworks.

He suffered serious injuries, including many broken bones and brain damage, and required intensive care treatment and hospitalisation for a total of eight months.

The accompanying book to the Topic Records 70 year anniversary boxed set Three Score and Ten lists Penguin Eggs as one of the classic albums.

[13] On 22 September 2012, Jones was presented with The Gold Badge of the English Folk Dance & Song Society, at a special concert at Cecil Sharp House, London.

Another important feature was a regular percussive sound made by striking downwards with the middle and ring fingers of the right hand on damped bass strings close to or above the bridge of the guitar.

This can be heard to good effect on such Jones tracks as "Ten Thousand Miles" (on The Noah's Ark Trap, 1977) and "Master Kilby" (on From the Devil to a Stranger, 1978).

In 2001, Penguin Eggs was voted to second place in the "Best Folk Album of all Time" by listeners of the Mike Harding show on BBC Radio 2.

Some critics, such as FRoots editor Ian A. Anderson, have accused Dylan of stealing Jones's arrangements for this song, without credit or offer of royalties.