Arizona lost the King of Strings. Carvin Jones died early Sunday morning, September 20, at 60, after a battle with cancer. He was born Corvin Keith Anthony Jones in Lufkin, Texas. The blues got to him through his grandfather Jimmie Lee Audry’s B.B. King records, and his grandmother Ester Maud Nealy-Audry bought him his first guitar when he was seven. He never took a lesson in his life. Taught himself entirely by ear. He came out to Phoenix as a teenager, and his first job here was working security at a car lot. His longtime friend and business partner Lisa Steen said he would sit on top of a car and play guitar all night. The way he told it, he was playing for chicken wings and Pepsi. From that, without an agent, he took East Texas blues to 37 countries across three continents. He shared stages with B.B. King, Santana, Jeff Beck, Albert King, Albert Collins, Joe Cocker and the Fabulous Thunderbirds. Guitarist magazine named him one of the top 50 blues guitarists of all time in 200...