Born Louis Marshall Jones around Niagra, Kentucky, he spent his teenage years around Akron, Ohio where he began singing old time c and w tunes in the local radio indicate. By 1935 his pursuit of the musical theater career took him to WBZ (AM) radio in Boston, Massachusetts where he met musician/songwriter, Bradley Kincaid who gave him the nickname "Grandpa" due to his off-stage crotchetiness at early-morning radio shows. Jones liked the title & decided to produce a stage persona depending in the area of it.

Performing when "Granpa Jones," he played a banjo, yodeled, and sang mostly old-quaint ballads. A bit of of his additional notable songs include, "T is for Texas" & "Mountain Dew." Moving to Nashville, Tennessee, he became part of the Grand Ole Opry and was a regular cast member on the popular TV indicate, Hee Haw.

Jones was one of a virtually all popular cast members of the long-running off Hee Haw. The special skit experienced cast members request "Hey Grandpa, what's for supper?" to which he'five hundred either describe either the delicious, united states-style meal ("Buttermilk buiscuts smothered in chicken gravy, home-fried potatoes, collard greens and Grandmother's fresh-baked blueberry pie a la mode!" & a cast would reply, "Yum, yum!") or even, other typically than does'nt, something terrible ("Because you were bad, thawed out TV dinners!" at which the cast would scoff, "Yuk!"). Jones likewise joined castmates Buck Owens, Roy Clark and Kenny Price with a gospel section at a prevent of every Hee Haw show.

The resident of rural Ridgetop, Tennessee outside of Nashville, he was a neigbor & friend of fellow musician David "Stringbean" Akeman. On a morning of November 11, 1973, Jones found a bodies of Akeman & his married woman world health organization experienced been murdered when you took the nighttime by robbers.

Around 1978 Grandpa Jones was inducted into a Country Music Hall of Fame.

Within January of 1998, he suffered the stroke fallowing the performance & passed away two or three weeks late. He is interred within the Luton Memorial Methodist Church necropolis in Nashville.