NOTE: both of the legends discography's were a bastard to do :smile:
Here it is Legends number 6 is it ? yeah number 6 here it is this time it is John Jackson Hope you enjoy .
Biography
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. His music--East Coast Piedmont blues, ragtime, folk, old-time hillbilly songs and ballads--transcends race, class and intellectual backgrounds as if barriers did not exist. Without a doubt, Jackson, who was an absolute favorite at blues festivals all over the world, was one of the country's preeminent singer-guitarists, a genuine national treasure.
Born in Rappahanock County, Virginia on February 25, 1924, John Jackson was the seventh son of 14 children. His parents were farmers as well as musicians who played parties on weekends and holidays. John first played around with his father's guitar at age four,when John was six his parents bought him a a second-hand Victrola , and from the same man they bought record of people like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, Uncle Dave Macon and Jimmie Rodgers and John soaked up these sounds . By eight years of age John taught himself enough to accompany his parents at parties. When he was ten, John met a chain gang convict named Happy, who was working near the Jackson's home. Happy taught John open tuning and slide guitar techniques, all the while encouraging the young musician. Before he could learn to read or write, John had to drop out of school to work on the farm. He continued playing parties with his parents during the 1930s and 1940s but quit playing music a short time later. He felt music encouraged violent behavior, and he didn't want any part of it.
John moved to Fairfax, Virginia in 1950 with his wife, Cora, and children to work on a dairy farm. He ended up spending most of his time working around the farmer's home as a cook, butler, chauffeur, and general caretaker until the early 1960s. A friend of John's, in need of some quick cash, pawned John his guitar, and John quietly started playing again. At this point he became a gravedigger to support his family, occasionally pulling out his guitar for fun. One day, while John was playing guitar for some neighborhood kids, his mailman asked him for lessons. John agreed to meet him at the local gas station, where the mailman had a second job. While John played at the gas station, Chuck Perdue, the president of the Folklore Society of Greater Washington, pulled in for a fill-up. He heard John playing Mississippi John Hurt's "Candy Man" Note for Note! Amazed, Perdue asked John if he could play anything else. John happily obliged with songs from John Hurt, Blind Blake, and so on. Perdue made some introductions with John and Arhoolie Records. Within weeks, John was playing at coffeehouses in the Washington D.C. area, where he gradually regained all his old musical powers.
In April of 1965, John recorded songs for his first record, Blues And Country Dance Songs From Virginia , for Arhoolie. He became an instant hit at blues festivals, easily winning a whole new generation of fans already singing the praises of Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James and other early bluesmen rediscovered at the time. Two more Arhoolie albums followed, as John's reputation continued to grow. Among his friends and admirers were Mississippi John Hurt, Mississippi Fred McDowell, B.B. King and Ricky Skaggs. Two albums for Rounder in the 1980s kept Jackson busy on the international tour circuit. Besides constant trips to Europe, Jackson played Asia, Africa, South America, India and all over the United States. The National Endowment for the Arts awarded John with their National Heritage Fellowship in 1986, giving official recognition to the vibrant blues giant.
Over the years Jackson had befriended, in his words, "just about everybody that's a guitar picker." Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Luther Allison, Junior Wells and Son House have all shared stages and swapped songs with Jackson. Carl Sandburg and Alex Haley, even Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers Neighborhood ) counted themselves among Jackson's close friends. With a strong desire to stay in Virginia and not take to the road, John Jackson's accomplishments are truly astounding. He went from playing on his front porch to playing at President Jimmy Carter's Labor Day Picnic at the White House, Carnegie Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, to points all over the world.
His easy rolling guitar playing and gentle singing took his fans on a timeless musical journey. Mr. Jackson passed away in Virginia on January 20, 2002 but will be remembered as one of the greaters blues players ever to grace this earth .
DISCOGRAPHY
1999 Front Porch Blues Alligator
1999 Country Blues & Ditties (compilation) Arhoolie
1983 Deep In Bottom Rounder
1979 Step It Up & Go Rounder
1970 Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Arhoolie
1970 John Jackson In Europe Arhoolie
1968 John Jackson, Vol. 2 Arhoolie
1966 John Jackson Rounder
1965 Blues And Country Dance Tunes From Virginia Arhoolie
Ok that's Legends number 6 John Jackson a man who truly is a legend and man who's guitar playing skills are blinding he can play complicated lines etc and sing at the same John was truly an accomplished guitarist and will go down in history as being one of the greatest blues players of all time IMO :smile:
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) chance that someone opens this topic, I'm going to link a topic in the Acoustic forum I did where I put up free d/l's of some of John's work. They will eventually be deleted before long, but meanwhile if anyone wants them... 
