Biography
Fae Barnes, c.1900, Hillsboro, Texas, USA. Jones worked in black revue from around 1922, first in New York and later in the Dallas/Fort Worth area until her retirement from showbusiness in about 1934. Her history thereafter is unknown. Her Columbia recordings, made between 1924 and 1926, besides including some of the most sensitive recorded playing by Louis Armstrong and Charlie Green, are the work of one of the finest of the female vaudeville blues singers, demonstrating her resonant voice and outstanding technique, powered by a remarkable ability to sustain a note. Never as highly rated as Bessie Smith or Clara Smith, she easily bears comparison with either.
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