Jones became infatuated with the bohemian image of Woody Guthrie and Jack Kerouac and grew his hair long.

In the early 1960s he went busking in Paris, France, and there mixed in an artistic circle that included Rod Stewart, Alex Campbell, Clive Palmer (Incredible String Band) and Ralph McTell.

After a couple of years travelling throughout Europe and North Africa he returned to England,[1] and married his long-time girlfriend Sandy to raise a family.

By this time the skiffle boom was over but one of the stars of that movement, Chas McDevitt, used Jones' guitar-playing on five albums in 1965 and 1966.

Jones has always maintained a high level of popularity in Germany, since the mid–1970s, and he stills tours mainland Europe every year.

When in the mid-1990s he appeared on the Bert Jansch television documentary, Acoustic Routes, there was renewed interest in his work.