Illustrated John Jackson discography

J O H N J A C K S O N; from Acoustic Guitar 86, Febr. 2000, p. 54; photographer: Tom Radcliffe
source: Acoustic Guitar 86, Febr. 2000, p. 54
luthier of cutaway metal guitar: Ron Philips
photographer: Tom Radcliffe John Jackson
b. February 25, 1924 near Woodville, Rappahannock County, Virginia
d. January 20, 2002 at home in Fairfax Station, Fairfax County, Virginia
buried at Pleasant Valley Memorial Park in Annandale, Fairfax County, Virginia
discography J O H N J A C K S O N;
source: David Harrison: Die Legenden des Blues - Eine Hommage in Bildern.- Königswinter (HEEL-Verlag) 1995, p. 63; photographer: Sylvia Pitcher

#	year of release	title / label # / notes
1	1966	John Jackson: Blues And Country Dance Tunes From Virginia (1966) - Nobody's Business But My Own (= ... Mine) [Arhoolie 1025 1970] @ youtube @ Spotify - Going Down In Georgia On A Horn [Arhoolie 1025 1970] @ youtube @ Spotify - Black Snake Moan [Arhoolie 1025 1970] @ youtube @ Spotify - Flat Foot & Buck Dance (instr) (2:27) [never re-released on CD] - If Hattie Wanna Lu, Let Her Lu Like A Man (instr) # [Arhoolie 1025 1970] @ youtube @ Spotify - T.B. Blues (2:58) [Arhoolie CD 471] - I'm A Bad, Bad Man [Arhoolie 1025 1970] @ youtube @ Spotify - Rattlesnakin' Daddy (2:29) [never re-released on CD] - Poor Boy (2:22) [never re-released on CD] - Boat's Up The River (2:21) [never re-released on CD] @ youtube - Steamboat Whistle Blues (2:47) [Arhoolie CD 471] - John's Rag (instr) [= Old Time Rag] [Arhoolie 1025 1970] @ youtube @ Spotify - Cindy # [Arhoolie 1025 1970] @ youtube @ Spotify - John Henry [Arhoolie 1025 1970] @ youtube @ Spotify originally unissued tracks from same session: - T.B. Blues - Matchbox Blues [Arhoolie CD 471] - Railroad Bill [Arhoolie CD 471] - Shuckin' Up Baby - Little Brown Jug (incomplete) - Waiting For A Train (= All Around The Water Tank) [Arhoolie CD 471] - Diddy Wa Diddy [Arhoolie CD 471] - Police Dog Blues - Old Time Rag (instr) - Don't Let The Deal Go Down - Mobile Blues (instr) - Gambling Man - Steel Guitar Rag (instr) - Happy's Breakdown - Had A Dream - untitled instrumental (Spiritual) - Candy Man - Death Of Blind Boy Fuller - 99 Blues - Police Dog Blues - I'll Step Aside [Arhoolie CD 471] - Roll On Buddy [Arhoolie CD 471] - untitled - untitled instrumental # - Mountain Dew (instr) # - Black Cat [all titles!!!] rec. April 19, 1965 in Fairfax, VA by Chris Strachwitz; John Jackson, voc, g, # banjo [1970 remastered version side B contains tracks recorded 1969 in Stuttgart, Germany] photo by John Dildine notes (1965) by Chuck Perdue "Arhoolie Records, Box 5073, Berkeley 5, Calif." Arhoolie F 1025 (mono) (US 1966) notes (1965) by Chuck Perdue "Arhoolie Records, Box 5073, Berkeley 5, Calif." Arhoolie F 1025 (sample copy) (US 1966) Arhoolie discography
		- John Henry @ youtube - Poor Boy @ youtube - Buck Dancer's Choice @ youtube - Tell Me Pretty Mama @ youtube rec. prob. 1966 at the Washington Folk Festival in Washington, DC; John Jackson, voc, g originally unissued Document DLP 525
2	1967	Buddy Moss: Rediscovery Vol. 1 Biograph BCD-139 bonus tracks: @ youtube (full CD) - Hurry Home °° - Red River Blues °° - Pushin' It °° - Comin' Back °° - How I Feel Today °° - That'll Never Happen No More °° - Oh Lordy Mama °° Biograph BLP-12019 track sequence: @ youtube (full album) - Sitting On Top Of The World * - Kansas City * - It Was In The Weary Hour Night - Chesterfield - I've Got To Keep To The Highway - Come On Around To My House * - Step It Up And Go * - Everyday Seems Like Sunday - I Got A Woman, Don't Mean Me No Good * - Betty And Dupree * - Every Day, Every Day * rec. June 10, 1966 at the Gas Light Auditorium, Washington, DC. (concert for the Folklore Society of Greater Washington); Buddy Moss, voc, g, hca; Jeff Espina, hca; * John Jackson (billed as "J.J."), 2nd g °° on CD only (additional live tracks from elsewhere) notes by Pete Lowry and Chuck & Nan Perdue Biograph BLP-12019 (US 1967) = Biograph BCD-139 (US 1995) "Atlanta Blues Legend" = Collectables COL-CD-6950 (US 2007) Biograph Records discography
3	1968	John Jackson Vol. 2 More Blues And Country Dance Tunes From Virginia@ youtube (full CD) - Bear Cat Blues [Arhoolie CD 378] @ youtube @ Spotify - Death Of Blind Boy Fuller [never re-released on CD] @ youtube - Reuben [Arhoolie CD 378] @ youtube @ Spotify - Rocks And Gravel [Arhoolie CD 378] @ youtube @ Spotify - You Left Me # [never re-released on CD] @ youtube - Going Down The Road Feeling Bad * [Arhoolie CD 378] @ youtube @ Spotify - Police Dog Blues [Arhoolie CD 378] @ youtube @ Spotify - Don't Let Your Deal Go Down [Arhoolie CD 378] @ youtube @ Spotify - Muleskinner Blues [Arhoolie CD 378] @ youtube @ Spotify - Near The Cross [Arhoolie CD 471 "Kneel At The Cross"] @ youtube @ Spotify - Going Up North # [Arhoolie CD 471] @ youtube @ Spotify - Lay Down My Old Guitar [Arhoolie CD 471] @ youtube @ Spotify originally unissued tracks from same session: - Red River Blues - John's Guitar Boogie (instr) (3:11) [Arhoolie CD 471] @ youtube @ Spotify - Trucking Little Baby - Matchbox Blues - Back Water Blues - Waiting For A Train - He's In The Jailhouse Now (3:52) [Arhoolie CD 471] @ youtube @ Spotify - Baby Won't You Please Come Home - Midnight Blues - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning (2:04) [Arhoolie CD 471] @ youtube @ Spotify - Cannon Ball - Screaming And Crying (2:40) [Arhoolie CD 471] @ youtube @ Spotify - Brown Skin Mama (3:27) [Arhoolie CD 471] @ youtube @ Spotify - Red Sea Blues (3:09) [Arhoolie CD 471] @ youtube @ Spotify rec. December 8, 1967 in Fairfax Station, VA by Chris Strachwitz; John Jackson, voc, g, # banjo; * Mike Seeger, g, voc photo by Chris Strachwitz notes (1968) by Chuck Perdue P.O. Box 9195–Berkeley, Calif. 94719 Arhoolie F 1035 (stereo) (US 1968) notes (1968) by Chuck Perdue Box 9195 Berkeley, Calif. • 94709 = Arhoolie F 1035 (stereo) (US 19??) Arhoolie Records discography
3a	1968	The Roots Of America's Music LP 1: Country Blues Fred McDowell - Shake 'Em On Down Mance Lipscomb - Sugar Babe Black Ace - New Triflin' Woman Alex Moore - July Boogie Big Joe Williams - Greystone Blues Lil Son Jackson - Roberta John Jackson - Going Down In Georgia On A Horn [Arhoolie 1025] Guitar Slim & Jelly Belly - No More Hard Times Lowell Fulson - River Blues City Blues Mercy Dee - Walked Down So Many Turnrows Juke Boy Bonner - Going Back To The Country Lightning Hopkins - Tom Moore Blues Big Mama Thornton - Unlucky Girl Clifton Chenier - Louisiana Blues Larry Williams - I Know You Hear Me Calling Johnny Young - Wild Wild Woman LP 2: Gospel & Jazz Bukka White - Jesus Died On The Cross To Save The World Jesse Fuller - Amazing Grace Rev. Overstreet - I'm A Soldier In The Army Of The Lord Robert Shaw - The Ma Grinder Kid Thomas - Eh La Bas Joe Turner - Old Piney Brown's Gone Luna - Nisaba In The Grass Country, Cajun & Folk J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers - Run Mountain Del McCoury - Dreams The Hodges Brothers - Carroll County Blues Luderin Darbone - Crowley Waltz Nathan Abshire - Cajun Two Step Alice Stuart - Once I Had A Sweetheart Crabgrass - Charles Giteau James Campbell - Baby Please Don't Go compilation of tracks previously on Arhoolie LPs; ed. & prod. by Chris Strachwitz no previously unissued tracks! 2-disc package notes by Pete Welding Arhoolie R2001/2002 (US 1968) = Stateside SR-9323B (Jp 1972) Arhoolie Records discography
4	1969	Blues Roots LP 1: - Frisco Lines - Fred McDowell - Fare You Well Baby Blues - Joe Callicott - Long Haired Doney - R.L. Burnside - Mean Stepfather - Big Joe Williams - Bald Eagle Train - Bukka White and "Washboard Willie" [= Wayne Pope!] @ youtube - Don't Drive Me Away - R.C. Smith - Long Tall Girl - Mance Lipscomb - Red River Blues - Lil' Son Jackson - I Am the Black Ace - Black Ace - Whistling Alex Moore Blues - Alex Moore - Texas Blues - Lowell Fulson and Martin Fulson, rhythm g - The Ma Grinder - Robert Shaw - Take A Walk - Lightnin' Hopkins LP 2: - Bear Cat Blues - John Jackson - Snowing and Raining - Guitar Slim and Jelly Belly - Got A Date I Can't Be Late - Jesse Fuller - You Got Another - Lightnin' Hopkins and Barbara Dane - Struggle Here - Juke Boy Bonner and Alvin J. Simon, dr - Listen At That Bull - G. Coleman - Trouble Blues - Big Joe Turner - Dream - John Littlejohn [Arhoolie 1043] - Sugar Daddy - Mercy Dee Walton - I'm Feeling Alright - Big Mama Thornton - Sometimes I Cry - Johnny Young - Black Snake Blues - Clifton Chenier - Two Bugs - Earl Hooker "The selections from this album have been comprised from the catalog of Arhoolie Records ... Except where otherwise indicated, all selections produced and recorded by Chris Strachwitz" gatefold DLP Poppy PYS-60.003 (US 1969) = RCA Victor 740 069 (France 1969) = RCA Victor SHP-6124/25 (Jp) = Tomato TOM-2-7006 (US 1978) gatefold DLP = Tomato DLP 2696181 (Germany 1989) 2 CD set notes by Bill Dahl = Tomato CD TOM-3001 (US 2002)
5	1969	American Folk Blues Festival '69 Live! At Royal Albert Hall London Juke Boy Bonner - Jumpin' With Juke Boy @ youtube @ Spotify Earl Hooker - Going Up And Down @ youtube @ Spotify Carey Bell - Rocking With Chromanica / I Feel Bad, Bad, Bad @ youtube @ Spotify Juke Boy Bonner - Running Shoes @ youtube @ Spotify John Jackson - Poor Boy @ youtube @ Spotify Clifton Chenier - Zydeco Et Pas Sale @ youtube @ Spotify Earl Hooker - Blue Shadows Fall @ youtube @ Spotify Clifton Chenier - Wrap It Up @ youtube @ Spotify Magic Sam - Easy Baby (3:24) @ youtube @ Spotify Magic Sam - Looking Good (2:06) @ youtube @ Spotify Whistling Alex Moore - Across The Atlantic Ocean @ youtube @ youtube @ Spotify John Jackson - John Jackson Breakdown (instr) @ youtube @ Spotify originally unissued tracks from same appearance: Earl Hooker - Walking The Floor Over You / Steel Guitar Rag (HCO 2010) # [CBS LP 52796] - Walking The Floor Over You / Off The Hook # [Hip-O CD B0003224-02] Magic Sam - Sweet Home Chicago - All Your Love [Hip-O CD B0003224-02, Hip-O DVD B0000751-09] - Every Night About This Time - I Feel So Good (I Wanna Boogie) [aka "Magic Sam's Boogie", Hip-O DVD B0000751-09] rec. October 3, 1969 at Royal Albert Hall, London, UK; prod. & presented by Lippmann + Rau in cooperation with Chris Strachwitz Juke Boy Bonner, voc, hca, g Earl Hooker, voc, g; Carey Bell, hca; Mack Thompson, b; Robert St. Julien, dr Earl Hooker, voc, g; Mack Thompson, b; Robert St. Julien, dr Carey Bell, voc, hca; Earl Hooker, g; Mack Thompson, b; Robert St. Julien, dr John Jackson, voc, g Clifton Chenier, voc, acc; Cleveland Chenier, washb; Robert St. Julien, dr Magic Sam, voc, g; Mack Thompson, b; Robert St. Julien, dr Whistling Alex Moore, voc, p, whistling back cover photo by Valerie Wilmer notes by Horst Lippmann & Paul Oliver Scout Sc-6 (Germany 1969) notes by Horst Lippmann & Paul Oliver = CBS S 63912 (UK 1969) notes by Horst Lippmann & Paul Oliver = Optimism/L+R LR CD-2071 (US 198?) notes by Horst Lippmann & Paul Oliver = Bellaphon/L+R CD 42.071 (Germany 1991) 4 CD set notes by Horst Lippmann & Paul Oliver (=) Bellaphon/L+R CDLR 726222 (EU 2002) "American Folk Blues Festival 1965/1966/1967/1969" concert review by Paul Oliver (Jazz Monthly December 1969, pp. 24-25) at WeenieCampbell.com, scanned & OCRed by Alan Balfour American Folk Blues Festival discography Scout Records discography L+R Records discography Juke Boy Bonner discography Earl Hooker discography Magic Sam discography Whistling Alex Moore discography Mac Thompson discography
6	1970	John Jackson In Europe - I Bring My Money [Arhoolie CD 378] @ youtube @ Spotify - John's Ragtime [Arhoolie CD 378] @ youtube @ Spotify - Red River Blues [Arhoolie CD 378] @ youtube @ Spotify - Knife Blues [Arhoolie CD 378] @ youtube @ Spotify - Trucking Little Baby [Arhoolie CD 378] @ youtube @ Spotify - Blind Blake's Rag [Arhoolie CD 378] @ youtube @ Spotify - Goodbye Booze [Arhoolie CD 378] @ youtube @ Spotify - Too Tight [Arhoolie CD 471] @ youtube @ Spotify - You Ain't No Woman [Arhoolie CD 378] @ youtube @ Spotify - Early Morning Blues [Arhoolie CD 378] @ youtube @ Spotify - Graveyard Blues [Arhoolie CD 378] @ youtube @ Spotify - All Around The Water Tank [Arhoolie CD 471 "Waiting For A Train"] @ youtube @ Spotify - Don't You Want To Go Up There (2:55) [never re-released on CD] @ youtube - Just A Closer Walk With Thee [Arhoolie CD 471] @ youtube @ Spotify originally unissued tracks from same session: - She's Got Something There - You Ain't No Woman - Red Sea Blues - That'll Never Happen No More (3:31) [Arhoolie CD 471] @ Spotify - Graveyard Blues - Depression Blues - Deep In The Bottom Blues (3:04) [Arhoolie CD 471] @ Spotify - Guitar Rag (instr) (2:30) [Arhoolie CD 471] @ Spotify - Matchbox Blues - Red River Valley - Nobody's Business - Going Down In Georgia - Black Snake Moan - Flat Foot & Buck Dance (instr) (3:00) [Arhoolie 1025 1970, Arhoolie CD 378] @ youtube - T.B. Blues (4:30) [Arhoolie 1025 1970] @ youtube - I'm A Bad, Bad Man - Rattlesnakin' Daddy (2:25) [Arhoolie 1025 1970, Arhoolie CD 378] @ youtube - Boats Up The River (3:25) [Arhoolie 1025 1970, Arhoolie CD 378] @ youtube - John's Rag - Poor Boy (3:35) [Arhoolie 1025 1970] @ youtube - John Henry - Steamboat Whistle Blues (2:35) [Arhoolie 1025 1970, Arhoolie CD 471] @ youtube - Anytime I'm Dying rec. October 23, 1969 at Jankowski Studio in Stuttgart, Germany by Chris Strachwitz; John Jackson, voc, g photo by Chris Strachwitz notes (May 1970) by Chuck & Nan Perdue Arhoolie 1047 (stereo) (US 1970) notes (May 1970) by Chuck & Nan Perdue = Arhoolie AR 19005 (Fr 1970) Arhoolie Records discography
7	1970	John Jackson: Blues And Country Dance Tunes From Virginia (1970) - Nobody's Business But My Own (... Mine) (2:50) [Arhoolie 1025 1966] @ youtube - Going Down In Georgia On A Horn (2:30) [Arhoolie 1025 1966] @ youtube - Black Snake Moan (2:10) [Arhoolie 1025 1966] @ youtube - If Hattie Wanna Lu, Let Her Lu Like A Man (instr) (2:05) [Arhoolie 1025 1966] @ youtube - I Am A Bad, Bad Man (2:35) [Arhoolie 1025 1966] @ youtube - John's Rag (instr) (2:35) [Arhoolie 1025 1966] @ youtube - Cindy (2:10) [Arhoolie 1025 1966] @ youtube - John Henry (3:45) [Arhoolie 1025 1966] @ youtube - Rattlesnakin' Daddy (2:25) # @ youtube - T.B. Blues (4:30) # @ youtube - Flat Foot & Buck Dance (instr) (3:00) # @ youtube - Steamboat Whistle Blues (2:35) # @ youtube - Boats Up The River (3:25) # @ youtube - Poor Boy (3:35) @ youtube side A rec. April 19, 1965 in Fairfax, Virginia (in mono) side B rec. October 23, 1969 in Stuttgart, Germany (in stereo) [# new versions of same titles on 1966 mono LP] by Chris Strachwitz photo by John Dildine Arhoolie F 1025 (mono 1965) notes (1965) by Chuck Perdue Box 9195, Berkeley, CA. 94709 Arhoolie F 1025 (US 1970) (remastered version, side A: mono, side B: stereo) notes (1965) by Chuck Perdue Box 9195, Berkeley, CA. 94709 = Arhoolie AR 19034 (EUR) notes (1965) by Chuck Perdue = Trio PA-6026 (Jp 1978) Arhoolie Records discography Trio Records discography
8	1975	A Place To Be Fox Hollow Festival 10th Anniversary Album Volume 1 Biograph 12051 (first edition 1975) Len Chandler - Lovin' People (1967) °° Pat Sky - She's Up For Grabs (1968) Michael Cooney - Be Kind To Your Parents (1969) °° Dave Bromberg & John Hartford - The Holdup (1971) °° Douglas Neidt - Argentine Folk Dance (1971) Dan Smith, Bessie Jones, Doris Frazier, Robert Caplin - Something Down In Me (1971) Lorre Wyatt - Clearwater (1974) °° Lou & Sally Killen - Thousand Or More (1973) °° Martha Nagler - The Lone Pilgrim - (1971) The Boys Of The Lough - Lament (1973) °° Michael Cooney - Watermelon Song (1969) °° Sandy Paton & The Golden Ring - Wild Mt. Thyme & The Hunt (1971) John Hartford, Dave Brober, Norman Blake, Vassar Clements, Alan Stowell - Babe, You've Been On My Mind (1971) °° Gordon Bok - Leaving Glen Aben (1972) °° Joe Hickerson - Maid On The Shore (1974) John Wright - Jew's Harp Solo (1974) Susan Boyer - Bell Song (1974) Evelyn Beers - Green Gravel (1974) R. U. Brown - Highland Bagpipe Playing (1971) Bob Beers - Closing Speech (1971) Biograph 12051 (revised edition 1976) Roger Sprung - June Apple (1967) °° Pat Sky - She's Up For Grabs (1968) John Jackson - Bad Badman (1969) # °° @ youtube Sandy Paton & The Golden Ring - Wild Mt. Thyme (1970) Douglas Neidt - Argentine Folk Dance (1971) Dan Smith with Bessie Jones - Something Down In Me (1971) Bottle Hill - Sittin' On Top Of The World (1972) °° Joe Hickerson - Maid On The Shore (1972) Craig Morton - Go To Sea No More (1973) °° John Wright - Jews Harp Solo (1974) Susan Boyer - Bell Song (1974) Evelyne Beers - Green Gravel (1974) R.U. Brown - Highland Bagpipe Playing (1971) Bob Beers - closing speech (1971) compiled by Arnold S. Caplin, Evelyne Burnstine & Joel Bernstein # rec. 1969 at the Fox Hollow Festival in Petersburgh, New York; John Jackson, voc, g °° on first resp. revised edition only notes by Evelyne Burnstine, Arnold S. Caplin & Joel Bernstein Biograph BLP-12051 (first edition 1975) notes by Evelyne Burnstine, Arnold S. Caplin & Joel Bernstein Biograph BLP-12051 (revised edition 1976) Biograph Records discography
9	1978	39th National Folk Festival Albert Hash and the Whitetop Mountain Band - Single Girl, Married Girl Emily Spencer & Rebecca Haga - I'll Fly Away Kyle Creed - Roustabout Abe Horton - House Carpenter E.C. Ball - Old Jimmy Sutton Ted Lundy - Sally Anne Rose Maddox - Philadelphia Lawyer Graham Townsend - Hangman's Reel Dewey Balfa - Indian On A Stump Joe Politte - Sugar In The Gourd The Balfa Brothers - Tu en a eu, mais tu en aura plus Joe & Antoinette McKenna - Unnamed Reel Joe & Antoinette McKenna - Drops Of Brandy / Unnamed Slip Jig Joe Jerdak - Bellydancing Mawwal Cheremosh Musicians - Girls Dance Medley Rumisonkos - Augite de Putina John Jackson - You Ain't No Woman @ youtube Henry Townsend - Walk All Night @ youtube rec. July 29-31, 1977 at the 39th National Folk Festival, Wolf Trap Farm Park, Vienna, VA; John Jackson, voc, g photos by Phil Straw, American Folk Life Center, Joe Wilson, Carl Fleischauer National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA) NFF-77 (US 1978)
10	1978	Virginia Traditions - Non-Blues Secular Black Music - I Wish To The Lord I'd Never Been Born - Leonard Bowles And Irvin Cook - I Used To Work On The Tractor - Jimmie Strothers - Come Let's March - Daniel Womack - Casey Jones - Isaac Curry - Cripple Creek - Uncle Homer Walker - Reno Factory - Marvin Foddrell - Buckdance - Sanford L Collins - Bile Them Cabbage Down - Lewis Hairston - John Henry - John Cephas - Fox Chase - James Applewhite - Railroad Bill - Turner Foddrell - Hop Along Lou - John Lawson Tyree - The Cuckoo Bird - John Calloway - Poor Farmers - Lemuel Jones - Tennessee Dog - Jimmie Strothers - Poor Black Annie - Clayton Horsely - Eve - Clarence Waddy - Old Blue - Irvin Cook - Medley of Country Dance Tunes - John Jackson @ youtube - Cotton-Eyed Joe - Lewis Hairston unissued John Jackson tracks from same session: - Brown Skin Woman Blues - Frankie And Johnny - Betty And Dupree - Vaccinations in the precinct - Gabriel's Horn - Big Hog - Buckdancer's Choice (instr) with dancing ## - Flatfoot's Choice (instr) - Buckdancer's Choice (instr) - Ghost Story, Ten-Foot Woman # - Ghosts And Walnuts - Global Blues - Hambone, circle games (talking) # - Hambone, Old Joe Clark (talking) # - Heel And Toe (instr) - Hunting without ammunition - Kansas City Blues - Knitting For Britain # - Late night preacher - The Lord's rod # - Naming twins # - Preacher in the haunted house - Red Lips - Reverend Further # - Sally In The Garden Sitting Sand (instr) - Sewing maiden hood # - South Carolina - Unidentified (guitar waltz) (instr) rec. September 16, 1977 in Fairfax County, VA by Kip Lornell; John Jackson, voc, g, sp; Cora Jackson, # sp, ## dancing; Kip Lornell, sp Blue Ridge Institute BRI 001 (US 1978) = Global Village CD 1001 (US 1994)
10a	1978	Philadelphia Folk Festival Bruce Martin - Scots Piping (fragment) (0:42) Tom Paxton - Did You Hear John Hurt? (3:34) Norman Blake - Jerusalem Ridge (2:37) Michael Cooney - Lady Isabel And The Elf King (4:51) De Danann - Irish Dance Medley: The Boys Of Ballisodaire / The Longford Collector (3:54) Kate Wolf - Then Came The Children (3:41) John Jackson - Step It Up And Go (2:36) @ youtube Odetta - I Gotta Be Me (2:15) Dave Van Ronk - Green, Green Rocky Road (5:27) Lou Killen - All For Me Grog (3:08) Roger Sprung, Hal Wylie & The Progressive Bluegrassers - Wild Goose Chase (4:04) Debbie McClatchy - A Little Piece Of Wang (2:01) Lew London Trio - The Glory Of Love (4:15) Highwood String Band & The Green Grass Cloggers - Dance All Night (4:20) rec. August 26, 27, 28, 1977 at the Old Poole Farm in Upper Salford, PA; John Jackson, voc, g Flying Fish FF-064 (US 1978)
11	1979	John Jackson: Step It Up And Go - Step It Up And Go @ youtube @ Spotify - Georgia Blues @ youtube @ Spotify - One Black Cat @ youtube @ Spotify - Bile 'Em Cabbage Down # @ youtube @ Spotify - She's Got Something There @ youtube @ Spotify - Brownskin Woman @ youtube @ Spotify - South Carolina Rag @ youtube @ Spotify - Red Lips @ youtube @ Spotify - Key To The Highway @ youtube @ Spotify - Backwater Blues @ youtube @ Spotify - Guitar Rag (instr) @ youtube @ Spotify - Matchbox Blues @ youtube @ Spotify - Kansas City @ youtube @ Spotify - You Promised Me Love @ youtube @ Spotify rec. May 7 and 8, 1978 at The Mixing Lab, Newton, MA; John Jackson, voc, g, # banjo; prod. by Glenn Jones & Wendy Ritger front cover photo by Kathy Plunket; back cover photo by Glenn Jones notes by Wendy Ritger and Glenn Jones Rounder 2019 (US 1979) notes by Wendy Ritger and Glenn Jones = Guimbarda GS-11.089 (Sp 1980) notes by Wendy Ritger and Glenn Jones = Black And Blue 33.581 (Fr 198?) Rounder Records discography
12	1983	John Jackson: Deep In The Bottom@ youtube (full album) - Come On In This Old House # - Bootleggers Blues - Walkin' The Floor Over You # - St. Louis Blues # - The Year Clayton Delaney Died °° - Brown's Ferry Blues # - Deep In The Bottom # - That's Alright Mama # - He's In The Jailhouse Now - Diddy Wah Diddy # - Mississippi River Blues - Don't Let Your Deal Go Down # rec. March 22, 1982 at The Mixing Lab, Newton, MA; John Jackson, voc, ac g; # Bill Morrison, ac b; prod. by Glenn Jones & Wendy Ritger °° rec. May 7, 1978 at The Mixing Lab front cover photo by Kathy Plunket; back cover photos by Barry Zolten & Glenn Jones notes (July 1982) by Jerry Zolten Rounder 2032 (US 1983) Rounder Records discography
13	1986	National Downhome Blues Festival - Volume Three John Jackson - Bad Water Blues @ youtube - Rocks & Gravel @ youtube - I'm A Bad Man @ youtube Albert Macon & Robert Thomas - She Wanna Do The Boogie Woogie - My Baby Don't Wear No Drawers Robert Lockwood - Big Legged Woman Snooky Pryor & Homesick James - Why You Want To Treat Me Like That - Boogie Twist Piano Red - Right String But The Wrong Yo Yo - Lowdown Dog Eddie Kirkland - I Got My Eyes On You rec. October 19-21, 1984 live at the National Downhome Blues Festival at the Moonshadow, Atlanta, GA; John Jackson, voc, g Southland SLP-23 (US 1986) (=) Southland SCD-22 (along with Southland SLP-24) Southland Records discography
14	1988	Country Blues Live! Mississippi John Hurt - I Shall Not Be Moved # [never re-released] @ youtube - Avalon Blues # [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube - I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down # [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube - Payday # [never re-released] @ youtube - Casey Jones # [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube - Spanish Flang Dang # [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube - Welcome (Address) # [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube Robert Pete Williams - I'm So Worried \|\| [never re-released] @ youtube John Jackson - John Henry * [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube - Poor Boy * [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube - Buck Dancer's Choice * [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube - Tell Me Pretty Mama * [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube Sleepy John Estes & Yank Rachell - I'm A Tearing Little Daddy § [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube - 80 Highway § [never re-released] @ youtube - Mailman Blues § [Document DOCD-5697] @ youtube # rec. 1960s at Joel Jacobson's in Washington, D.C. \|\| rec. October 1966 at Johnny [Parth]'s in Hinterbrühl, Austria * rec. prob. 1966 at the Washington Folk Festival in Washington, DC; John Jackson, voc, g § rec. October 1966 at a TV show in Vienna, Austria Document DLP 525 Limited Edition Document DOCD-5697 (UK 2013) Document Records discography
15	1993	John Jackson: Don't Let Your Deal Go Down - Going Down In Georgia On A Horn [Arhoolie F 1025] @ Spotify - Black Snake Moan [Arhoolie F 1025] @ Spotify - John Henry [Arhoolie F 1025] @ Spotify - If Hattie Wants To Lu, Let Her Lu Like A Man [Arhoolie F 1025] @ Spotify - Nobody's Business But My Own [Arhoolie F 1025] @ Spotify - John's Rag [Arhoolie F 1025] @ Spotify - Boats Up The River (3:25) [Arhoolie F 1025, 1970] @ Spotify - Rattlesnakin' Daddy (2:25) [Arhoolie F 1025, 1970] @ Spotify - Flat Foot & Buck Dance (3:00) [Arhoolie F 1025, 1970] @ Spotify - Bear Cat Blues [Arhoolie F 1035] @ Spotify - Reuben [Arhoolie F 1035] @ Spotify - Rocks And Gravel [Arhoolie F 1035] @ Spotify - Going Down The Road Feelin' Bad (3:45) # [Arhoolie F 1035] @ Spotify - Police Dog Blues [Arhoolie F 1035] @ Spotify - Don't Let Your Deal Go Down (2:05) [Arhoolie F 1035] @ Spotify - Mule Skinner Blues [Arhoolie F 1035] @ Spotify - I Bring My Money [Arhoolie 1047] @ Spotify - John's Ragtime [Arhoolie 1047] @ Spotify - Red River Blues [Arhoolie 1047] @ Spotify - Knife Blues [Arhoolie 1047] @ Spotify - Trucking Little Baby [Arhoolie 1047] @ Spotify - Blind Blake's Rag [Arhoolie 1047] @ Spotify - Goodbye Booze [Arhoolie 1047] @ Spotify - Graveyard Blues [Arhoolie 1047] @ Spotify - Early Morning Blues [Arhoolie 1047] @ Spotify - You Ain't No Woman [Arhoolie 1047] @ Spotify rec. between 1965 and 1969 by Chris Strachwitz # Mike Seeger, 2nd g Arhoolie 1025, 1035, & 1047 Arhoolie CD 378 (US 1993) Arhoolie Records discography
15a	1994	Third Annual Farewell Reunion Mike Seeger With Rafe Stefanini, Dave Grant, Bruce Molsky & Dirk Powell - Shaking Off The Acorns Mike Seeger with Tim O'Brien - Leaving Tennessee Mike Seeger with Maria Muldaur And David Grisman - The Memory Of Your Smile Mike Seeger with Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin & Larry Hanks - Only Remembered Mike Seeger with Hank Bradley & Sue Thompson - The Mayor Is A Good Old Boy Mike Seeger with Sue Thompson -Boat's Up The River Mike Seeger with Ola Belle Reed & David Reed - East Virginia Blues Mike Seeger with Hazel Dickens & Tom Gray - They're At Rest Together Mike Seeger with Bob Dylan - The Ballad Of Hollis Brown Mike Seeger with Jimmy Driftwood - Oh My Little Dutch Girl Mike Seeger with Jean Ritchie - Deep Shady Grove Mike Seeger with Etta Baker - Cripple Creek Mike Seeger with Tommy Jarrell - Oldtime Sally Ann Mike Seeger with James Leva, Carol Elizabeth Jones & David Winston - Rose In The Mountain Mike Seeger with Carol Elizabeth Jones - Little Cabin Home On The Hill Mike Seeger with Peggy Seeger - Lord Thomas And Fair Ellender Mike Seeger with Pete Seeger - 900 Miles Mike Seeger with Michael Doucet & Marc Savoy - Savoy Family Waltz Mike Seeger with Peggy Seeger & Penny Seeger - I'm Going To The West The New Lost City Ramblers - Bound Steel Blues Mike Seeger with John Jackson - Brown's Ferry Blues Mike Seeger with Janette Carter, Joe Carter & Carl B. Poff - You've Been A Friend To Me Mike Seeger with Sandy Bradley, Vivian & Phil Williams - Frog Heaven Rounder CD 0313 (US 1994)
16	1995	Blues Live From Mountain Stage@ youtube (full CD) Nighthawks - Leave My Woman Alone (2:42) Tracy Nelson - It Hurts Me Too (4:26) Paul Geremia - Slidell Blues (3:40) Snooky Pryor - That's The Way To Do It (2:57) John Hammond - My Daddy Was A Jockey (3:23) Charlie Musselwhite - Blues, Why Do You Worry Me? (5:13) Chris Smither - The Devil's Real (4:22) Cephas & Wiggins - Black Cat On The Line (5:06) William Clarke - Lonesome Bedroom Blues (4:04) John Jackson - Louisiana Blues (2:26) @ youtube Legendary Blues Band - Got Love If You Want It (3:55) Johnnie Johnson - That'll Work (5:23) Charles Brown - Quicksand Blues (5:09) Duke Robillard - Gee, I Wish (5:52) Blue Plate BPM 305 (US 1995)
16a	1996	Arhoolie presents American Masters Vol. 1 15 Down Home Country Blues Classics Mississippi Fred McDowell - Frisco Line [Arhoolie 1027, CD 304] @ youtube Lightning Hopkins - Have You Ever Loved A Woman [Arhoolie 1063] @ youtube John Jackson - Going Down In Georgia On A Horn [Arhoolie 1025, CD 378] @ youtube Melvin "Lil' Son" Jackson - Cairo Blues [Arhoolie 1004, CD 352] @ youtube Mance Lipscomb - 'bout A Spoonful [Arhoolie 1001, CD 306] @ youtube Black Ace - Drink On Little Girl [Arhoolie 1003] @ youtube Snooks Eaglin - Country Boy Down In New Orleans [Arhoolie CD 348] @ youtube Bukka White - Columbus, Mississippi Blues [Arhoolie 1005] @ youtube Dr. Ross - Shake 'em On Down [Arhoolie 1065, CD 371] @ youtube Robert Pete Williams - Just Tippin' In (4:10) [Arhoolie CD 394] @ youtube [not "Just Trippin' In", as youtube video suggests] Jesse Fuller - Hump In My Back [Arhoolie CD 360] @ youtube Big Joe Williams - Brother James [Arhoolie 1002, CD 315] @ youtube Smoky Babe - I'm Broke And I'm Hungry [Arhoolie 2019, CD 440] @ youtube R.L. Burnside - Poor Black Mattie [Arhoolie 1042, CD 402] @ youtube K.C. Douglas - Mercury Blues [Arhoolie CD 432] @ youtube prod. and edited by Chris Strachwitz cover photo (Big Joe Williams) by Chris Strachwitz Arhoolie CD 101 (US 1996) Arhoolie Records discography
17	1998	The High Lonesome Sound Black Banjo Songsters of North Carolina and Virginia - The Coo Coo (Coo Coo Bird) - John Snipes - The Coo Coo (Coo Coo Bird) - Dink Roberts - Old Rattler (Fox Chase) - John Snipes - Georgia Buck (Georgie Buck)(Never Let a Woman Have Her Way) - Dink Roberts - Georgia Buck - Joe and Odell Thompson - John Henry - James Roberts - High Sheriff - Dink Roberts - John Hardy - Dink Roberts - Garfield - Dink Roberts - Old Corn Liquor - Dink Roberts - Old Corn Liquor - Joe and Odell Thompson - John Henry - Joe and Odell Thompson - Love Somebody (Soldier's Joy) - Joe and Tommy Thompson - Long Tail Blue - John Snipes - Ain't Gonna Rain No More - John Snipes and Tommy Thompson - Going Where I've Never Been Before - John Snipes - Black Annie - Dink Roberts - Old Blue - Dink Roberts - Going Away from Home (Take Care of My Wife and Child) - John Snipes - You Don't Know My Darling - John Snipes - Jaybird March - Etta Baker and Cora Phillips - Going Up North - John Jackson # @ youtube - Sugar Hill - Homer Walker - Momma Don't Allow - Irvin Cook and Leonard Bowles - Shortnin' Bread - Leonard Bowles - Shortnin' Bread - Lewis "Big Sweet" Hairston - Fox Chase - John Tyree - Roustabout (Buffalo) - Dink Roberts - Cookin' in the Kitchen - John Snipes - Coo Coo Bird - Rufus Kasey - Fox Chase - Dink Roberts - Little Brown Jug - Joe and Odell Thompson prod. by Cece Conway and Scott Odell # rec. March 7, 1997 in Washington, DC; John Jackson, voc, banjo cover artwork by Henry Ossawa Turner notes by Cece Conway and Scott Odell Smithsonian Folkways SF CD 40079 (US 1998)
18	1998	The Harry Smith Connection: A Live Tribute To The Anthology Of American Folk Music - East Virginia Blues - Roger McGuinn, Jeff Tweedy, and Jay Bennett - I'm On The Battlefield For My Lord - Ethel Caffie-Austin - John Henry - John Jackson # @ youtube - A Lazy Farmer Boy - Greg Hooven String Band - Old Dog Blue - Lonnie Pitchford - Home Sweet Home - The New Lost City Ramblers - The Butcher Boy - Ginny Hawker - John The Revelator - Ethel Caffie-Austin - His Tapes Roll On - Peter Stampfel - Minglewood Blues - John Sebastian And The J-Band with Geoff Muldaur - The Coo Coo Bird - Ella Jenkins - Frankie And Johnny - John Jackson # @ youtube - Sugar Baby - Roger McGuinn, Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett - Le Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme - Balfa Toujours - Spike Driver Blues - Dave Van Ronk - Darling Corey - Greg Hooven String Band - The Coo Coo Bird - Toshi Reagon - James Alley Blues - Jeff Tweedy, Roger McGuinn, and Jay Bennett - Nothing - The Fugs prod. by Pete Reiniger, Jeff Place and Bob Santelli # rec. October 25, 1997 live at The Barns of Wolf Trap, Vienna, VA; John Jackson, voc, g notes by Jeff Place and Bob Santelli Smithsonian Folkways SF CD 40085 (US 1998)
19	1999	John Jackson: Front Porch Blues - Railroad Bill @ youtube - C.C. Rider @ youtube - Death Don't Have No Mercy @ youtube - Chesterfield (Buddy Moss!) @ youtube - Steel Mill Blues @ youtube - Louisiana Blues @ youtube - Just Because @ youtube - Red River Blues @ youtube - Fairfax Station Rag (instr) @ youtube - West Texas Blues @ youtube - When He Calls Me @ youtube - Midnight Hour Blues @ youtube - Rappahannock Blues (instr) @ youtube - She's So Sweet @ youtube - The Devil He Wore A Hickory Shoe @ youtube - Have It Your Own Way # @ youtube rec. c. June 1999 at Private Ear, Hyattsville, Maryland by Pete Reiniger; John Jackson, voc, g; # James Jackson, voc, g photography by Tom Radcliffe notes by Joe Wilson Alligator ALCD 4867 (US 1999)
20	1999	John Jackson: Country Blues & Ditties - Diddy Wa Diddy (2:45) \|\| [previously unissued] @ Spotify - Matchbox Blues (3:00) \|\| [previously unissued] @ Spotify - Roll On Buddy (2:01) \|\| [previously unissued] @ Spotify - T.B. Blues (2:20) \|\| [Arhoolie 1025 1966] @ Spotify - Guitar Rag (instr) (2:30) \|\| [previously unissued] @ Spotify - Railroad Bill (2:38) \|\| [previously unissued] @ Spotify - Waiting For A Train (3:05) \|\| [previously unissued] @ youtube @ Spotify - Cindy (2:10) # \|\| [Arhoolie 1025 1966 + 1970] @ Spotify - Steamboat Whistle (2:56) \|\| [Arhoolie 1025 1966] @ Spotify - I'll Step Aside (2:40) \|\| [previously unissued] @ Spotify - John's Guitar Boogie (instr) (3:11) // @ youtube @ Spotify - Brown Skin Mama (3:27) // @ youtube @ Spotify - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning (2:04) // @ youtube @ Spotify - Screaming And Crying (2:40) // @ youtube @ Spotify - He's In The Jailhouse Now (3:52) // @ youtube @ Spotify - Red Sea Blues (3:09) // @ youtube @ Spotify - Kneel At The Cross [Arhoolie F 1035 "Near The Cross"] (2:37) // @ youtube @ Spotify - Going Up North (2:03) # // [Arhoolie F 1035] @ youtube @ Spotify - Lay Down My Old Guitar (3:04) // [Arhoolie F 1035] @ youtube @ Spotify - Too Tight (2:49) \\ [Arhoolie F 1047] @ Spotify - Just A Closer Walk With Thee (3:45) \\ [Arhoolie F 1047] @ Spotify - Deep In The Bottom Blues (3:04) \\ [previously unissued] @ Spotify - That'll Never Happen No More (3:31) \\ [previously unissued] @ Spotify - I'm A Bad, Bad Man (3:06) \\ [previously unissued] @ Spotify - Why I Quit Playing Guitar (1:41) \|\| @ Spotify rec. \|\| April 19, 1965, // December 8, 1967, and \\ fall of 1969 by Chris Strachwitz; John Jackson, voc, g, # banjo Arhoolie CD 471 (US 1999) Arhoolie Records discography
21	2000	Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary disc 1: - San Francisco Bay Blues - Jesse Fuller (previously unreleased) - Mercury Blues - K.C. Douglas - Shake Shake Mama - Mance Lipscomb - Cairo Blues - Lil' Son Jackson - Barbershop Rhythm - Wade Walton / Robert Curtis Smith - One Thin Dime - Butch Cage / Willie Thomas - Charmin' Betsy - Hodges Brothers - Whistlin' Alex Moore's Blues - Alex Moore - I Am The Black Ace - Black Ace - Brother James - Big Joe Williams - Lady Luck - Mercy Dee - Don't Drive Me Away - R.C. Smith - Zydeco Introduction - Zydeco Announcer - Bernadette Chere - Albert Chevalier - Bald Headed Woman - Lightnin' Hopkins - Baby Please Don't Go - James Campbell - Believe On Me - Rev. Louis Overstreet - Low Down Blues - George Lewis - The Country Blues - J.E. Mainer - Crowley Waltz - The Hackberry Ramblers - She'll Be Comin' Round The Mountain - Booker White (previously unreleased) - Ay, Ai Ai - Clifton Chenier - Write Me A Few Lines - Fred McDowell - Charlie James - Mance Lipscomb - Louisiana Blues - Clifton Chenier disc 2: - Cindy - John Jackson - Little Red Rooster - Big Mama Thornton - La Betaille - Isom Fontenot - Calcasieu Waltz - Nathan Abshire - Almlied - Eibelsberger Duo - I Wonder Where You Are Tonight - Del McCoury - In The Breeze - Jerry Hahn Quintet - Goin' Back To The Country - Juke Boy Bonner - Sometimes I Cry - Johnny Young - Two Bugs And A Roach - Earl Hooker - Dream - John Littlejohn - Things Gonna Get Better - Bee Houston - Visions - Sonny Simmons - I Wish I Could Sing - Bongo Joe - Boogieing In Strasbourg - Alex Moore - The Death Of Dr. Martin Luther King - Big Joe Williams - Please Settle In Vietnam - Lightnin' Hopkins - Shake 'Em On Down - Fred McDowell / Johnny Woods - El Desesperado - Los Pinguinos Del Norte - Creole Belles - New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra - Finger Lickin' Good - Charlie Musselwhite disc 3: - Church Point Breakdown - Austin Pitre - Gstanzeln Aus Dem Freistriztal - Original Herberstein Trio - Gibson Creek Shuffle - Charles Ford Band - Ups And Downs - L.C. Robinson - You Ain't Got A Chance - Piano Red - Home Sweet Home - Boisec Ardoin / Canray Fontenot - Satan's Burning Hell - Bill Neely - Luzita - Narciso Martinez - Yo Me Enamore - Trio San Antonio - Borracho Perdido - Trio San Antonio - One Of These Mornings (I'm Checkin' Out) - J.C. Burris - Allons A Grand Coteau - Clifton Chenier - En Bas Du Chene Vert - Dewey Balfa / Marc Savoy/D.L. Menard - Besos Y Copas - Chavela Ortiz Y Brown Express - Fast Santa Fe - Robert Shaw - I'll See You In C-U-B-A - Any Old Time String Band - El Balaju - Conjunto Alma Jarocha - La Gata - Los Caporales De Panuco - Beym Rebas Sude - The Klezmorim - J'ai Laisse De La Maison - Cheese Read - Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio - Don Santiago Jimenez Sr. - Mi Problema - Lydia Mendoza disc 4: - Gritenme Piedras Del Campo - Flaco Jimenez - Co-Fe - John Delafose - Single Girl - Rose Maddox - Bec De La Manche - Canray Fontenot - Bosco Stomp - Octa Clark / Hector Duhon - Negra Ausencia - Santiago Jimenez Jr. - La Chanson De Cinquante Sous - Michael Doucet Dit BeauSoleil (previously unreleased) - Shake What You Got - Preston Frank - Little Black Eyes - Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band - The Chill Of A Saturday Afternoon - Wade Fruge - Jolie Blonde - Chuck Guillory - Here To Stay - Rebirth Brass Band - I Know That's Right - Katie Webster - I've Been There - Lawrence Ardoin - Mentiste Cuando Dijiste - Flaco Jimenez - Aguililla - Los Campesinos De Michoacan - La Reine De La Salle - Odile Falcon - Chanson De La Sagesse - Michael Doucet - Hot Chili Mama - BeauSoleil - Check Out The Zydeco - C.J. Chenier - El Canoero - Valerio Longoria - Corrido Del Mono - Los Gavilanes De Oakland - San Francisco Can Be Such A Lonely Town - Omar Sharriff disc 5: - Mother - Paramount Gospel Singers - Gumagarugu - Chatuye - Khandan-E Amaturi III - Aziz Herawi - A Ti, Colombia - Ivan Cuesta - Food Stamp Blues - Treme Brass Band - Ain't It A Shame - Elder Roma Wilson - J'ai Ete Au Bal - Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band - La Mal Sentada - Los Cenzontles - Falling For You - Rose Maddox - Los Traficantes Del Bravo - Los Palomares Del Bravo (previously unreleased) - Jesus Will Fix It For You - Sonny Treadway - Medved Na Lancu - Csokolom - Jale Griego - Jose Moreno - El Corrido De Esequiel Hernandez - Santiago Jimenez, Jr. - What's His Name - Jesus! - The Campbell Brothers - Just A Closer Walk With Thee - Aubrey Ghent Compilation producers: Chris Strachwitz & Elijah Wald; digitally remastered by Mike Cogan 5 CD box 66-pp. booklet by Chris Strachwitz, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt & Elijah Wald Arhoolie CD 491 (US 2000) Arhoolie Records discography
22	2001	National Downhome Blues Festival - Volume Two John Jackson - Bad Water Blues @ youtube - Rocks & Gravel @ youtube - I'm A Bad Man @ youtube Albert Macon & Robert Thomas - She Wanna Do The Boogie Woogie - My Baby Don't Wear No Drawers Robert Lockwood - Big Legged Woman Snooky Pryor & Homesick James - Why You Want To Treat Me Like That - Boogie Twist Piano Red - Right String But The Wrong Yo Yo - Lowdown Dog Eddie Kirkland - I Got My Eyes On You Dr. Ross - Chicago Breakdown - That's All Right, Mama - Biscuit Baking Woman Booker T. Laury - Woman I Love Lives In Memphis, Tennessee - Disco Strut Son Thomas - Roll And Tumble Henry & Vernell Townsend - The Tears Come Rolling Down Henry Townsend - Standing Looking Out The Window Larry Johnson - The Wrong Woman - Can't You Hear The Angels Singing? Hezekiah & The Houserockers - Downhome Blues Southland SLP-23 + 24 Southland SCD-22 (US 2001) Southland Records discography
23	2005	Blues With A Message - I Have To Paint My Face - Sam Chatman - John Henry - John Jackson [Arhoolie 1025 1970] - Walked Down So Many Turn Rows - Mercy Dee - Tom Moore's Farm - Mance Lipscomb - Tom Moore Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins - River Blues - Lowell Fulson - Levee Camp Blues - Fred McDowell - The 1919 Influenza Blues - Essie Jenkins - Why I Like Roosevelt - Willie Eason - Little Soldier Boy - Doctor Ross - Prisoner's Talking Blues - Robert Pete Williams - I Got To Climb A High Mountain - Johnie Lewis - Depression Blues - Herman E. Johnson - Stockyard Blues - Johnny Young/Big Walter Horton - What Will I Tell The Children - Juke Boy Bonner - It's Enough - Juke Boy Bonner - Things Gonna Get Better - Bee Houston - Back Home Blues - Big Joe Williams ed. by Chris Strachwitz & Paul Oliver notes by Paul Oliver Arhoolie CD 510 (US 2005) on front cover: Sleepy John Estes' hands cropped from a 1962 photo by Georges Adins Arhoolie Records discography
23a	2006	Classic African-American Ballads from Smithsonian Folkways Warner Williams - Mouse On The Hill (3:44) K.C. Douglas - Casey Jones (1:23) Lead Belly - John Hardy (2:43) John Jackson - Railroad Bill (3:33) # [Smithsonian Folkways SF CD 40181] @ youtube Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon - Stewball (3:33) Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee - John Henry (4:04) Snooks Eaglin - St. James Infirmary (2:20) John Cephas and Phil Wiggins - Staggerlee (Stackolee) (5:03) Convicts at the Ramsey and Retrieve State Farms - Lost John (4:54) Josh White - Betty And Dupree (3:45) Lead Belly - Old Riley (1:58) Jazz Gillum, Memphis Slim, and Arbee Stidham - The Race Of The Jim Lee And Katy Adam (2:27) Pink Anderson - The Titanic (2:49) Big Bill Broonzy - Frankie And Johnny (2:07) Earl Taylor and The Stoney Mountain Boys - White House Blues (1:59) John Jackson - Louis Collins (3:18) * @ youtube Woody Guthrie - Bad Lee Brown (2:14) Horace Sprott - Luke And Mullen (2:25) Dave Van Ronk - Duncan And Brady (3:00) Lead Belly - Gallis Pole (2:45) Pink Anderson - Boll Weevil (3:04) Josh White, Jr. - Delia's Gone (3:45) compiled by Barry Lee Pearson # rec. June 25, 1981 live at the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife in Washington, DC; John Jackson, voc, g; James Jackson, g * rec. October 25, 1997 live at The Barns of Wolf Trap, Vienna, VA (Harry Smith Tribute concert); John Jackson, voc, g notes by Barry LeePearson Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40191 (US 2006)
23b	2007	Crucial Acoustic Blues Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - High Heel Sneakers Lonnie Mack With Stevie Ray Vaughan - Oreo Cookie Blues Carey Bell & Lurrie Bell - Stop Running 'Round Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin with Nappy Brown - Down In The Alley Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women - Sloppy Drunk Koko Taylor With Keb Mo - The Man Next Door John Jackson - Railroad Bill [Alligator ALCD 4867] Johnny Winter - Evil On My Mind Cephas & Wiggins - Trouble In Mind Sonny Terry - So Tough With Me Kenny Neal & Billy Branch - Baby Bee Corey Harris - God Don't Ever Change Johnny Jones - The Dirty Dozens Alligator ALCD 124 (US 2007)
24	2010	Classic Appalachian Blues from Smithsonian Folkways - My Baby's Gone - Sticks McGhee - Louise Blues - Big Chief Ellis with Cephas and Wiggins - Sitting on Top of the World - Doc Watson - Railroad Bill - John Jackson # @ youtube - Don't Let Your Deal Go Down - Bill Williams * - You Don't Know My Mind - Pink Anderson - Blues Around My Bed - J. C. Burris - Hesitation Blues - Reverend Gary Davis - Pawn Shop Blues - Brownie McGhee - The Road is Rough and Rocky - Archie Edwards - Hoodoo Blues - Martin, Bogan and Armstrong - Red River Blues - Lesley Riddle - Walking Cane - Peg Leg Sam Jackson - One Dime Blues - Etta Baker - Mississippi Heavy Water Blues - Roscoe Holcomb - Outskirts of Town - Josh White - See What You Done Done - Baby Tate - I Got a Woman - Marvin and Turner Foddrell - Girl Dressed in Green - John Tinsley - Blues in the Morning - E.C. Ball - Wine Blues (Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee) - Sticks McGhee compiled by Barry Lee Pearson and Jeff Place # rec. June 25, 1981 live at the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife in Washington, DC; John Jackson, voc, g; James Jackson, g * rec. July 2, 1971 live at the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife in Wahington, DC; Bill Williams, voc, g notes by Barry Lee Pearson and Jeff Place Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40198 (US 2010) [read notes]
25	2010	John Jackson: Rappahannock Blues - Rocks And Gravel °° - Too Tight Rag °° - Candy Man °° - Truckin' Little Baby °° [Smithsonian Folkways SF CD 40221] - Railroad Bill [Smithsonian Folkways SF CD 40191] - Nobody's Business (If I Do) °° - Don't You Want To Go Up There (2:25) °° - The Year Clayton Delaney Died °° - John Jackson's Breakdown °° - Red River Blues °° [Smithsonian Folkways SF CD 40221] - Brown's Ferry Blues °° - Cindy # °° - You Ain't No Woman °° - John Henry [Smithsonian Folkways SF CD 40085] @ youtube - Diddy Wah Diddy °° - Just A Closer Walk With Thee °° - Frankie And Johnny °° - Don't Let Your Deal Go Down °° - Step It Up And Go °° - West Coast Rag °° °° = previously unreleased 1, 9, 10, 16: Recorded June 29, 1975; from archive reel FP-1975-RR-0479 2: Recorded June 24, 1981; from archive reel FP-1981-RR-0059 3, 7: Recorded July 2, 1970; from archive reel FP-1970-7RR-0040 4, 6: Recorded July 4, 1972; from archive reel FP-1972-7RR-0086 5, 14: Recorded October 25, 1997; at the Barns of Wolf Trap 8: Recorded October 5, 1977; from archive reel FP-1977-RR-0005 11: Recorded September 5, 1976; from archive reel FP-1976-RR-2794; John Jackson, voc, banjo 12, 15, 17: Recorded September 5, 1976; from archive reel FP-1976-RR-2793 13: Recorded 1976; from archive reel FP-1976-RR-2806 18, 20: Recorded August 14, 1976; from archive reel FP-1976-RR-2653 19: Recorded June 25, 1981; from archive reel FP-1981-RR-0063 cover photo by Tom Pich notes by Barry Lee Pearson and Jeff Place Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40181 (US 2010)
26	2013	The Blues Revival Volume 1 (1963-1969) Sleepy John Estes - Mailman Blues - I'm A Tearing Little Daddy Brownie McGhee - Everything Gonna Be Alright Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues - I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller) - Bye Bye Bird - Work With Me John Jackson - Buck Dancer's Choice [Document DLP 525] - John Henry [Document DLP 525] Sippie Wallace - Suitcase Blues Big Walter Horton (Shakey Horton) - Mysterious Blues - Baby I Need Your Love Mississippi John Hurt - Casey Jones - Spanish Flang Dang - Welcome Address Sippie Wallace - You Don't Know My Mind Brownie McGhee - Stop Using Me Big Walter Horton (Shakey Horton) - Medley: a) When I Lost My Baby b) St. Louis Blues c) Careless Love d) John Henry - Shakey's Boogie John Jackson - Tell Me Pretty Mama [Document DLP 525] - Poor Boy [Document DLP 525] Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee - Harmonica Piece Document DLP 525 16-pp. booklet by Gary Atkinson Document DOCD-5697 (UK 2013)
27	2013	The Very Best of American Folk Blues Festival '63-'85 Lurrie Bell & Billy Branch (Chicago's Young Blues Generation) - The Train I Ride Margie Evans - Chilly Waters Juke Boy Bonner - Running Shoes Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee - Rock Island Line John Lee Hooker - Della Mae Clifton Chenier - Zydeco Et Pas Sale James "Sparky" Rucker - Crossroads Jimmy Dawkins Chicago Blues Band - Got My Mojo Workin' Lightin Slim & Whispering Smith - Winter Time Blues Blind Joe Hill (One-Man-Blues-Band) - Big Boss Man John Jackson - Poor Boy [Scout Sc-6] Louisiana Red - Pretty Woman Bukka White - World Boogie Bowling Green John Cephas, Harmonica Phil Wiggins - Last Fair Deal Muddy Waters - Five Long Years John Lee Hooker - King Of The World Sonny Boy Williamson - I'm Trying To Make London My Home Victoria Spivey, Willie Dixon, Bill Stepney - Grant Spivey James "Sparky" Rucker - Babylon Blues Margie Evans, Sunnyland Slim & Carey Bell's Blues Harp Band - Hound Dog Bellaphon CDLR 664128 (Germany 2013)
28	2014	Classic African American Songsters from Smithsonian Folkways - Bring it On Down to My House - Warner Williams with Jay Summerour (2:02) - Talking Blues - Pink Anderson (2:26) - Nobody's Business (If I Do) - John Jackson (3:15) - Alabama Bound - Little Brother Montgomery (2:17) - Pallet On The Floor - Brownie McGhee (3:09) - Chicken You Can't Roost Too High For Me - Bill Williams (3:16) - My Hula Love - Lead Belly (2:16) - Candy Man - Reverend Gary Davis (2:32) - Going Down The Road Feeling Bad - John Cephas and Phil Wiggins (3:32) - Froggy Went-A-Courting - Peg Leg Sam (4:10) - Monday Morning Blues - Mississippi John Hurt (5:52) - The Boys Of Your Uncle Sam - Pink Anderson (2:03) - Raise A Ruckus Tonight - Brownie McGhee (2:49) - Reno Factory - Marvin Foddrell (2:09) - Don't Let Your Deal Go Down - John Jackson (3:07) - Honeysuckle Rose - Warner Williams with Jay Summerour (2:05) - Bill Bailey - Big Bill Broonzy (1:55) - When The Roses Bloom Again - Bill Williams 2:05) - Straighten Up And Fly Right - Peg Leg Sam (3:14) - Careless Love - Snooks Eaglin (2:33) - They Cut Down The Old Pine Tree - Martin, Bogan, and Armstrong (2:20) compiled by Barry Lee Pearson and Jeff Place notes by Barry Lee Pearson and Jeff Place Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40211 (US 2014) [read notes]
28a	2014	The Roots Of It All: Acoustic Blues - The Definitive Collection, Vol. 3 disc 1: The 1960s Mance Lipscomb - Shake, Shake, Mama (2:50) John Lee Hooker - Tupelo (3:19) Rev. Gary Davis - Samson And Delilah (4:05) Robert Pete Williams - I've Grown So Ugly (2:48) Lightnin' Hopkins - Mojo Hand (3:03) Lonnie Johnson - Moaning Blues (4:01) Smoky Babe - Hottest Brand Goin' (4:06) Herman E. Johnson - I Just Keeps On Wanting You (2:45) Scrapper Blackwell - Shady Lane (5:27) Pink Anderson - I Got Mine (3:07) Pete Franklin - Prison Bound (4:21) Shirley Griffith - Bye Bye Blues (4:11) R.C. Smith - Please Don't Drive Me Away (2:25) Memphis Willie B. - Wine Drinking Woman (3:36) Baby Tate - What Have I Done To You (2:42) Leroy Dallas - She Caught The M & O (3:43) Sleepy John Estes - Vernita's Blues (2:19) J.D. Short - I'm Just Wastin' My Time (5:25) Muddy Waters - Feel Like Going Home (3:52) Buddy Moss - Amy (2:42) Johnny Young - Want My Lovin' (3:30) Arvella Gray - Corrine, Corrina (2:13) Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man (2:53) Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis - Alberta (2:56) disc 2: The 1970s Son House - Empire State Express (3:41) Mississippi Fred McDowell - Frisco Lines (3:59) J.B. Lenoir - If I Get Lucky (2:59) Skip James - Sickbed Blues (4:06) R.L. Burnside - Long Haired Doney (2:45) Furry Lewis - Old Original Furry Lewis Blues (3:46) Joe Callicott - Lonesome Katy Blues (3:04) John Jackson - Rocks And Gravel (3:15) Babe Stovall - Worried Blues (3:33) Howlin' Wolf - Ain't Goin' Down That Dirt Road #2 (4:20) Larry Johnson - Four Women Blues (2:33) Jack Owens - I Love My Baby (4:50) Johnny Shines - Your Troubles Can't Be Like Mine (4:18) Brownie McGhee - My Last Suit (3:53) Juke Boy Bonner - Tired Of The Greyhound Bus (2:26) Tarheel Slim - So Sweet, So Sweet (3:19) Tom Shaw - Baby Be A Boy Child Named Him After Me (5:44) Eddie Taylor - Bullcow Blues (3:10) Bill Williams - Salty Dog (4:37) Guitar Shorty - Jessie Jones (3:58) Rev. Pearly Brown - It's A Mean Old World To Try To Live In (2:24) Louisiana Red - Dead Stray Dog (3:56) David "Honeyboy" Edwards - Big Fat Mama (2:56) Henry Townsend - Can't You See (3:18) front cover photo (of Big Joe Williams) by Axel Küstner 112-pp. booklet notes by Bill Dahl Bear Family BCD 17231 (Germany 2014)
29	2017	Classic Piedmont Blues from Smithsonian Folkways John Jackson - Truckin' Little Baby (3:00) # [Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40181] John Cephas and Phil Wiggins - Mamie (4:13) Warner Williams and Eddie Pennington - Hey Bartender, There's A Big Bug In My Beer (2:47) Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry - Confusion (3:21) Josh White - T.B. Blues (3:24) Baby Tate - If I Could Holler Like A Mountain Jack (3:06) Hobart Smith - Clog Dance (1:09) Brownie McGhee - Daisy (3:27) Elizabeth Cotten - Going Down The Road Feeling Bad (2:13) Pink Anderson - I Got A Woman 'Cross Town (1:56) John Jackson - Red River Blues (3:01) ## [Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40181] Warner Williams and Jay Summerour - I Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton (3:50) Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee - Sweet Woman (3:06) Doc Watson - The Train That Carried My Girl From Town (2:22) Reverend Gary Davis - Mountain Jack (3:31) John Cephas and Phil Wiggins - Crow Jane (3:04) Brownie McGhee - Fore Day Creep (4:14) Roscoe Holcomb - Sittin' On Top Of The World (2:43) Pink Anderson - Meet Me In The Bottom (3:33) Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and J.C. Burris - Dirty Mistreater (3:01) Archie Edwards - The Road Is Rough And Rocky (3:24) compiled by Barry Lee Pearson # rec. July 4, 1972 live at the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife in Washington, DC; John Jackson, voc, g ## rec. June 29, 1975 live at the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife in Washington, DC; John Jackson, voc, g notes by Barry Lee Pearson Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40221 (US 2017) [read notes]
30	2019	It's The Best Stuff Yet disc 1: Piedmont Come Down To Atlanta Ruth Willis (with Blind Willie McTell) - Talkin' to You Wimmin' About The Blues Ruth Willis - Merciful Blues Blind Willie McTell - Mamma T'aint Long Fo' Day Curley Weaver & Eddie Mapp - It's The Best Stuff Yet Prince Moore - Mississippi Water #2 Prince Moore - Market Street Rag #1 Ruth Willis - I'm Still Sloppy Drunk Buddy Moss - Red River Blues #2 Buddy Moss - Hard Time Blues #1 Gitfiddle Jim - Rainy Night Blues Gitfiddle Jim - Paddlin' Blues Barbecue Bob - Jambooger Blues Barbecue Bob - Black Skunk Blues Curley Weaver - Dirty Deal Blues Georgia Boyd - Never Mind Blues Sam Montgomery - Mercy Mercy Blues #2 Allison Mathis - You Done Quit Me Good As I Been To You Blind Willie McTell - Delia Blind Blake - West Coast Blues #1 Blind Boy Fuller - Rag Mama Rag #1 Joshua White - John Henry John Jackson - A Blind Blake Rag John Jackson - Too Tight Unkown Artists - Squeeze My Lemon Ed Bush - My Husband Just Now Left Josh White - Darktown Strutters disc 2: The COMPLETE 1956 Blind Willie McTell 'Ed Rhodes Final Session' - Warm Up - Baby It Must Be Love - talk about "Dyin' Crapshooter's" - Dyin' Crapshooter's Blues - talk about Early Life - Pal Of Mine - more about Life - Don't Forget It - talk about "Kill It Kid" - Kill It Kid - talk about "That Will Never Happen No More" - That Will Never Happen No More - a request for "My Blue Heaven" - My Blue Heaven - some talk "About Drinking" - Beedle Um Bum - talk about "Salty Dog" - A Married Man's A Fool - talk about "A To Z" - A To Z Blues - talk about "New Orleans" - Goodbye Blues - Basin Street Blues - talk about "People In Room" - Salty Dog - talks about "Train Songs" - Wabash Cannonball - talks about "St James" & asks to 'Snooze' - St. James Infirmary - asks for Prison Songs - talk and If I Had The Wings - Length and Leadbelly - Instrumental (medley): - Kill It Kid (instr) - Weeping Willow (instr) - Wreck Of The Old 97 (with vocal) - bonus interview edits: - Ed Rhodes remembers Willie McTell in conversation with Larry Cohn - part 1 - part 2 Note: Final Session Track Listing Is As Listed by Samuel B. Charters from the original tape master sheet and reproduced in Record Research Magazine (August 1961) 2 CDs and DVD size 32-pp. colour booklet in a DVD size case Frog Records DGF88 (UK 2019)
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**John Jackson tribute albums**
#	year of release	Artist: Record Title - featured song / label # / notes
1	2003	Lay Down My Old Guitar A Tribute To John Jackson - Lay Down My Old Guitar - Orville Johnson - Too Tight Rag - Pat Donohue - Mississippi Blues - Roy Book Binder - Midnight Hour Blues - Ann Rabson - Red River Blues - Thomas David Corlett - Don't Let Your Deal Go Down - Terry Robb - So Sweet - Cephas & Wiggins - That Will Never Happen No More - Ari Eisinger - When You Left - John Miller - West Coast Blues - Mary Flower - Goin' Down To Georgia On A Horn - W.B. Reid - Georgia Bound - Mick Knight - Come On Over To My House - Lauren Sheehan - Bootlegger's Blues - Ragtime Rick Blaufeld - Boats Up The River - Thom Davis - John Henry - Corey Harris - Just Because - Saffire, The Uppity Blues Women Centrum Recordings C0103
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Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Bob Eagle & Eric S. LeBlanc: Blues - A Regional Experience.- Santa Barbara (Praeger Publishers) 2013, p. 266
- Orville Johnson: Piedmont Blues - John Jackson looks back on 60 years of learning and passing on the tradition.- Acoustic Guitar 86, Febr. 2000, p. 54-66
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources
thanks to 'uncle bud', Thomas Stern, and Max Hoeffner for additional info

1969 AFBF ensemble (l to r): Mac Thompson, Earl Hooker, Clifton Chenier, Juke Boy Bonner,
Cleveland Chenier, Magic Sam, Carey Bell, 'Whistling' Alex Moore, John Jackson, Robert St. Julien
source: Blues Unlimited 130 (1978), p. 24; photographer: Chris Strachwitz

1969 AFBF ensemble (l to r) (standing): Earl Hooker, Cleveland Chenier, Magic Sam, Carey Bell, John Jackson, Robert St. Julien,
Willy Leiser (headlocked, almost invisible); (kneeling): Juke Boy Bonner, Clifton Chenier, Mac Thompson, 'Whistling' Alex Moore
source: back cover of Arhoolie 1048 "Alex Moore in Europe"; photographer: Chris Strachwitz

Cora and John Jackson
source: Back cover of (1979) Rounder LP 2019; photographer: Glenn Jones

Southeast Blues further reading

Bastin, Bruce: Crying for the Carolines.- London (Studio Vista) 1971

Bastin, Bruce: Red River Blues - The Blues Tradition in the Southeast.- Chicago (University of Illinois Press) 1986

Bastin, Bruce: Truckin' My Blues Away - East Coast Piedmont Styles.- in: Cohn, Lawrence: Nothing But The Blues - The Music and the Musicians.- New York, London, Paris (Abbeville Press) 1993, p. 205 - 231