PositiveThe Washington PostKienzle draws a link between this chronic absenteeism and the abuse that the young Jones endured at the hands of his alcoholic father, who demanded that his boy sing on command. That’s as far as Kienzle’s attempts at psychoanalysis go and maybe as far as they could. His subject, after all, is a man who, for all his extraordinary power to convey sadness in song, loved nothing more than to putter around on his riding lawn mower ... Even in the hands of as sympathetic a reporter and critic as Kienzle, it’s a story the demons tend to dominate.
