Mordicai Jones

Mordicai Jones is the 1971 album by pioneer Rock & Roll guitarist, and Shawnee Indian Link Wray. The music is a blend of Blues, Country, and Folk rock. The standout tracks are "Walkin' in the Arizona Sun", "All Because of a Woman", "Son of a Simple Man", and "Days Before Custer". Gene Johnson, not Bobby Howard, is "Mordicai Jones", and sings lead vocals. The rhythm tracks were recorded in 1971 in an old chicken shack on Wray's Maryland farm. The vocals were recorded in New York City. Bobby Howard, an original member of the 1960s DC club band The British Walkers, invited Gene Johnson, then of the DC club band Billy Budd, (with whom both Howard and Johnson and session guitarist Lance Quinn had played in '69 at DC's legendary Bayou nite...