Matt Jones
2 records in the archive · 1970
Credited on records as Matthew Jones & Elaine Laron.
About the artist
Matthew 'Matt' Jones (born 17 September 1936 in Tennessee; died 30 March 2011 in New York City, aged 74) was an American folk singer, songwriter and civil rights activist who served as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from June 1963, organising in Danville, Virginia, where he founded the Danville Freedom Voices. He sang with the SNCC Freedom Singers from the autumn of 1963 until 1967 alongside Bernice Johnson Reagon and Charles Sherrod, wrote some five hundred songs drawing on the gospel tradition, was arrested twenty-nine times in the course of his…