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The Turntable Blues: Reverend Johnny L. "Hurricane" Jones

Posted: Apr 24, 2010

The Turntable Blues

Born in the backwoods of Alabama, Rev. Johnny L. “Hurricane” Jones—now 73—still preaches at the Mount Olive Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, after 53 years. He continues to preach and sing as well as broadcasts a popular radio show in Atlanta on 1480AM (WYZE).

In the 60s and throughout the 70s, Rev. Jones recorded many top selling albums on the Shreveport, Louisiana, label Jewel. These hymns, prayers and sermons were recorded on Jones’ reel-to-reel tape recorder. In a recent interview with Dust-To-Digital President Lance Ledbetter, he told me this about Reverend Jones:

“He’s a special guy. Tremendous musician. The way we learned about him was through Cole Alexander who is the guitar player for the Black Lips. He had a cassette copy of one of Johnny’s records that came out in the 60s and 70s on Jewel. There was another local musician—Bradford Cox from Deerhunter—who I spoke with about him. Cole thought it was just the greatest gospel music he’d ever heard. So, he tracked down one of Johnny’s records. There’s a radio station in Grant Park here in Atlanta—WYZE—that’s a gospel music radio station. He decided to stop and go in. Johnny was from Atlanta and he ran a church called Second Mount Olive Baptist Church. Cole was curious to find out if he was still around. He went to the radio station and asked them if they’d ever heard of him or knew anything about him, and they said he did a radio show there every Saturday.

Cole ended up meeting him, and hanging out with him for a while. Then he contacted me and told me the story and that it might be something I’d be interested in pursuing. I said I’d talk to Johnny. When I talked to Johnny I thought he’d say, ‘Yeah, I’ve got those first seven records I did for Jewel back in the 60s and 70s and that’s all I got.’ Well, we start talking and he told me he had reel to reels of tapes from his recorded congregations that wouldn’t all fit in the back of my truck. He’d been recording his service every Sunday for broadcast on the radio station since 1957. He’s still preaching at The Second Mount Olive Baptist Church. He’s 73 years old. He’s one of a kind. He’s someone to talk to, a very special guy. We ended up transferring about 90 hours of his performances on digital. We’ve got the first record that came out last month. We’re working on the second one, and we want to see how the response is on that in the record stores and the music world. There’s so much material.

At the height of his surge, the church suffered several tragic incidents like fires, but at the zenith of his congregation in Atlanta the number of people coming to his church every Sunday was about 1,700. There are some powerful recordings. He had an organ player, electric guitar, electric bass and drums backing him up; pretty much a rock band behind him. They let people sing along…”

Now, this album is only available on vinyl. My copy arrived today. So, I had to take the album to Griffin Bufkin’s to play the LP. We’ve got the turntable blues. His turntable sounds quite distorted and I don’t feel comfortable actually writing an official review under these sonic conditions. “Maybe I need a new needle,” Griffin mentions hunched over the computer searching for an online solution. It’s quite powerful stuff…no doubt this album deserves complete attention. I miss my old turntable and in this digital age it’s amazing how time has gone by since I’ve played albums. We listened to a new Stones song "Plundered My Soul" that will show up on the upcoming re-issue of Exile On Main Street.

Anyway, more news tomorrow. Duty calls…

James Calemine

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