Biography
25 February 1924, Woodville, Virginia, USA, 20 January 2002, Fairfax Station, Virginia, USA. Born into a musical family, Jackson began to play guitar at around five years old, learning from a convict who worked on a chain gang. He played at parties and dances on the farm where he worked, but in 1946 gave up music to concentrate on family life in the town of Fairfax, working on a dairy farm and later as a gravedigger. He started playing guitar again in the 60s, reaping the benefits of the folk/blues revival. Jackson’s music, at least some of which was learned from records, covered a wide range of traditional southern material, including blues, rags, country dance tunes and ballads (which earned him the description of songster rather than blues singer), and he played in a style related to other black guitarists from the eastern states, such as Blind Blake and Blind Boy Fuller. Jackson made his recording debut on Arhoolie Records in 1965...
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