Jon Hartley Fox
Jon Hartley Fox, born in Dayton and currently residing in Grass Valley, California, has written about music and the arts for forty years. He worked as a deejay at WYSO in the 1970s and spent around ten years in radio, producing a series of programs for NPR on the history of King Records. After relocating to California, he wrote record reviews and liner notes while also lecturing on music topics. Fox received the IBMA Liner Notes Award twice: in 1996 for Lonesome and Then Some by James King (Rounder Records) and in 2005 for Lonesome & Blue: The Complete County Recordings by Red Allen (Rebel Records). His book King of the Queen City: The Story of King Records was published by University of Illinois Press in 2009. He previously served as IBMA Special Projects Coordinator before being replaced by Nancy Cardwell.
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- No. 2 January-March 1995