Fern Jones
Fern Jones
Top Songs
| 1 | Strange Things Are Happening | ||
| 2 | When A Sinner Prays | ||
| 3 | This World Is Not My Home | ||
| 4 | Just A Closer Walk | ||
| 5 | I Don't Care What The World May Do |
Albums
Aug 2014 • 24 songs
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Biography
Country gospel singer/songwriter Fern Jones was born in El Dorado, AR, in 1923. According to Joel Selvin and Ken Shipley's comprehensive liner notes in the 2005 retrospective The Glory Road, she was the daughter of a wildcat oil driller and grew up in abject poverty, nevertheless receiving a Sears Roebuck guitar at the age of 12. Soon she was lying about her age in order to play local honky tonks, but put her musical aspirations on hold after marrying short-order cook Raymond Jones at just 16. When Ray became an ordained minister in the Assemblies of God Church, building a ten...