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- John Jackson (February 24, 1924 – January 20, 2002) was an American Piedmont blues musician. Music was not his primary activity until his accidental "discovery" by the folklorist Chuck Perdue in the 1960s. Jackson had effectively given up playing in his community in 1949.
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John Jackson (February 24, 1924 – January 20, 2002) was an American Piedmont blues musician. Music was not his primary activity until his accidental "discovery" by the folklorist Chuck Perdue in the 1960s. Jackson had effectively given up playing in his community in 1949.
Blues artist, songster, and storyteller, John Jackson (February 25, 1924 - January 20, 2002) was the most important black Appalachian musician to come to broad public attention during the mid-1960s. The so-called Folk Revival of that decade witnessed the rediscovery of artists such as Mississippi
His music--East Coast Piedmont blues, ragtime, folk, old-time hillbilly songs and ballads--transcended race, class and intellectual backgrounds as if barriers did not exist. Without a doubt, Jackson, an absolute favorite at blues festivals all over the world, was one of the country's preeminent singer-guitarists, a genuine national treasure.
Catalog. Rappahannock Blues. Raised in a large, musical farm family in Rappahannock County, Virginia, John Jackson (1924-2002) was the most important black Appalachian musician to come to broad public attention during the mid-1960s. Having learned guitar and his wide-ranging stock of songs as a youth from family and 78-rpm recordings, he ...
He is one of the few African American musicians to play the blues on the banjo, which he learned growing up in the rural Piedmont region, though he never owned his own instrument until later in life. John Jackson was born February 25, 1924, in Rappahannock County, Virginia.
