| 词条 | John Jackson (blues musician) |
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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 careerJohn H Jackson[1] was born into a musical family in Woodville, Virginia, and learned to play the guitar at an early age. He moved to Fairfax, Virginia, in his twenties, where he worked as a gravedigger, among other jobs.[2]His first recordings were released in the early 1960s by Arhoolie Records.[2] He visited Europe several times, played at folk music festivals, and also recorded for Rounder Records and Alligator Records.[2] He also appeared around Washington, D.C., with the Travelling Blues Workshop, which included Jackson, Archie Edwards, Flora Molton, Mother Scott, and Phil Wiggins and John Cephas.[3] Jackson died in 2002 of liver cancer in Fairfax Station, Virginia, at the age of 77.[1] Jackson and his wife, Cora Lee Carter Jackson, had six boys and one girl. He was preceded in death by Cora Lee (1990) and by their sons John Jackson Jr. (1978), Ned Jackson (1978), and MacArthur Jackson (1996). Two of his remaining sons died after him: Lee Floyd Jackson (2006) and Timothy Jackson (2008). His daughter, Cora Elizabeth (Beth) Johnson, and his son James Edward Jackson still live in the Fairfax area. A historic marker noting the location of Jackson's birthplace was erected by the state of Virginia in Woodville in 2005.[4] Musical styleReviewing Jackson's 1978 record Step It Up and Go in Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau said, "His guitar style is eclectic, as befits a man who got his best songs from Blind Boy Fuller and Blind Blake 78s but who also played in a country band in the early '40s. His voice is gutteral yet well-defined. No innovator, and not as arresting through a whole side as he is at the outset, he's nevertheless responsible for the most pleasing (and well-recorded) new country blues record I've heard in years."[5] DiscographyAlbums
Awards and honorsJackson was a recipient of a 1986 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.[6] In January 2011, Jackson was nominated in the categories Blues Album and Live Performance Album at the 10th Annual Independent Music Awards.[7] References1. ^1 2 {{cite web|author=Pearson, Barry Lee |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-jackson-mn0000230077/biography |title=John Jackson: Biography |publisher=AllMusic.com |date= |accessdate=2015-09-07}} 2. ^1 2 {{cite book| first= Tony| last= Russell| year= 1997| title= The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray| edition= | publisher= Carlton Books| location= Dubai| page= 1222| isbn= 1-85868-255-X}} 3. ^{{cite web |first= Linda|last= Seida|url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p33882/biography|pure_url=yes}} |title=Archie Edwards: Biography |publisher=Allmusic.com |accessdate=September 15, 2011}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?MarkerID=8398|title=John Jackson—Traditional Musician Marker|publisher=|accessdate=12 May 2016}} 5. ^{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: J|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=J&bk=70|accessdate=February 27, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}} 6. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/year/1986|title=NEA National Heritage Fellowships 1986 |author= |website=www.arts.gov |publisher=National Endowment for the Arts |access-date=26 October 2018}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.independentmusicawards.com/ima/artist/john-jackson |title=John Jackson |publisher=Independentmusicawards.com |date= |accessdate=2015-09-07}} External links
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