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Died On This Date (January 20, 2002) John Jackson / Piedmont Blues Legend

Posted by themusicsover on January 20, 2010

John Jackson
February 24, 1924 – January 20, 2002

Photo by John Benicewicz

John Jackson was a Piedmont blues musician who, although he had plenty of local fans dating back to the 1940s, was not introduced to a national audience until the folk and blues revival 1960s.  His strong baritone voice, gentle acoustic picking, and occasional butter knife slide eventually endeared him to blues fans all over the world.  He was one of the last surviving bluesmen of the original generation.  John Jackson was 77 when he died of liver cancer on January 20, 2002.

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