Ronnie was obstinate to a fault, recalled Thomas Jones III, and would talk back to teachers and to their mom. “The weird thing is, he wasn’t a very bad kid; it was more of his total disregard, at times, for authority. I learned that it was best just to try to stay out of his warpath.” Now a music promoter based in Charlotte, Thomas Jones said his brother had a brilliant business mind and had helped him, when he was younger, with his advanced math homework even as he refused to do his own. Their family was not without connections. His uncle Petey Jones was a linebacker on the 1971
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