Buck Jones’ heroes had begun to catch on to him.
Texas singer-songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard, whose “Up Against The Wall, Redneck Mother” was the first thing Jones ever sang in public, heard Jones’ music and liked it enough to play it on his radio show down in Texas. Grammy-winning Jim Lauderdale thought enough of Jones to sing on his debut album, Lucky Star.
“He’s the kind of person you’d like for a younger brother,” Lauderdale said Saturday evening. “He was such a great guy, so positive and so talented. He was as nice as he was talented, and he was really talented.”
Buck Jones died Saturday, sometime around 2:30 a.m. He was 33, he left a wife and an infant son, and he was doing what it seemed he was always doing: trying to get to a gig. He and guitarist Jon Byrd were traveling to play a private party in Dublin, Tex. when the car blew a tire near Greenville, Tex.. They called Triple A and were told to report their highway mile marker so assistance could find them.
Jones walked off to find the marker and never returned. He was struck by a car. The driver is being held in Greenville on a charge of intoxicated manslaughter with a vehicle.
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