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John Jackson (February 24, 1924 – January 20, 2002) [1] 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. Life and career.
by Barry Lee Pearson. 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 John Hurt and Son House ...
Sep 20, 2022 · 6. 269 views 1 year ago. Archival recordings of Fairfax Station-based bluesman John Jackson punctuate stories and recordings from the first-ever John Jackson Piedmont Blues Festival held...
John Jackson was an exquisite instrumentalist and versatile musician who mastered complex fingerpicking and a wide repertoire of music on guitar, banjo and harmonica. He was a true cultural treasure of American roots music.
Virginia songster John Jackson, whose gentle, acoustic guitar picking and warm, rich baritone voice won him a National Heritage Fellowship, was one of the last remaining first-generation country bluesmen.
Appalachian blues musician John Jackson (1924 – 2002) was working as a grave digger in Fairfax County, Virginia, when he was “discovered” in the early 1960s by folklorist Chuck Purdue. The songs on this collection, recorded in Fairfax and in Stuttgart, Germany, in the 1960s, are among his first …
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.
