In 2015 Jones published Over the Top and Back: The Autobiography and released the album Long Lost Suitcase.
It is his friendship with Elvis, whom he met in 1965 when the King was filming Paradise, Hawaiian Style, that he celebrates on his latest album, Long Lost Suitcase.
Never one to slow down, Jones, who has performed with Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Van Morrison, Ed Sheeran and many others, also has a new 13 song CD, Long Lost Suitcase on S-Curve Records.
As with its predecessors — "Praise & Blame" in 2010 and "Spirit in the Room" in 2013 — "Long Lost Suitcase" presents Jones applying his still-steely vocal cords to an invigorating batch of songs that few 75-year-olds would have the courage to tackle, especially any with as long a tradition of playing Las Vegas showrooms as Jones has.
On Friday, "Long Lost Suitcase," the third album he's recorded with English producer Ethan Johns, arrives to complete a trilogy that represents a remarkable late-career artistic rejuvenation for Jones, who looks and sounds fully reinvigorated by this recent return to the music that's closest to his heart.
The Rollaboard was invented in 1987 by Robert Plath, a Northwest Airlines 747 pilot and avid home workshop tinkerer, who affixed two wheels and a long handle to suitcases that rolled upright, rather than being towed flat like Mr. Sadow's four-wheeled models.
A heavy leather tube, lined with plastic, it is about two feet long and has a suitcase handle.
Masri also said that he was told that guards had "locked the Tanzanian in a suitcase for long periods of time — a foul-smelling suitcase that made him vomit".
The mystery of the "Mexican Suitcase" has long had the makings of a fine tall tale.
I have a memory (possibly exaggerated) of a shed filled with long tables of opened suitcases being rifled through by immigration officials.
