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class="infobox-label">Labels</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vocalion_Records" title="Vocalion Records">Vocalion</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Victor_Talking_Machine_Company" title="Victor Talking Machine Company">Victor</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Musical artist</div> <p><b>Jim Jackson</b> (June 1876 – December 18, 1933)<sup id="cite_ref-bare_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bare-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an American <a href="/wiki/Blues" title="Blues">blues</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hokum" title="Hokum">hokum</a> singer, <a href="/wiki/Songster" title="Songster">songster</a>, and guitarist, whose <a href="/wiki/Sound_recording_and_reproduction" title="Sound recording and reproduction">recordings</a> in the late 1920s were popular and influential on later musicians. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Jackson_(musician)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Jackson was born in <a href="/wiki/Hernando,_Mississippi" title="Hernando, Mississippi">Hernando, Mississippi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-amg_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amg-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc date his birth as 1876,<sup id="cite_ref-bare_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bare-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but other sources give 1884 or 1890.<sup id="cite_ref-amg_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amg-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was raised on a farm, where he learned to play guitar. Around 1905 he started working as a singer, dancer, and musician in <a href="/wiki/Medicine_show" title="Medicine show">medicine shows</a> and played at dances and parties, often with other local musicians, such as <a href="/wiki/Gus_Cannon" title="Gus Cannon">Gus Cannon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frank_Stokes_(musician)" title="Frank Stokes (musician)">Frank Stokes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Wilkins" title="Robert Wilkins">Robert Wilkins</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-amg_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amg-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He soon began travelling with the <a href="/wiki/Rabbit_Foot_Minstrels" class="mw-redirect" title="Rabbit Foot Minstrels">Rabbit Foot Minstrels</a>, featuring <a href="/wiki/Ma_Rainey" title="Ma Rainey">Ma Rainey</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bessie_Smith" title="Bessie Smith">Bessie Smith</a>, and other <a href="/wiki/Minstrel_show" title="Minstrel show">minstrel shows</a>. </p><p>He also played in clubs on <a href="/wiki/Beale_Street" title="Beale Street">Beale Street</a> in <a href="/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee" title="Memphis, Tennessee">Memphis, Tennessee</a>. His popularity and proficiency secured him a residency at the prestigious <a href="/wiki/Peabody_Hotel" title="Peabody Hotel">Peabody Hotel</a> in Memphis in 1919. Like <a href="/wiki/Lead_Belly" title="Lead Belly">Lead Belly</a>, Jackson knew hundreds of songs, including blues, ballads, vaudeville numbers, and traditional tunes, and became a popular attraction. </p><p>In 1927 the talent scout <a href="/wiki/H._C._Speir" title="H. C. Speir">H. C. Speir</a> obtained for him a recording contract with <a href="/wiki/Vocalion_Records" title="Vocalion Records">Vocalion Records</a>. On October 10, 1927, he recorded "<a href="/wiki/Jim_Jackson%27s_Kansas_City_Blues" title="Jim Jackson's Kansas City Blues">Jim Jackson's Kansas City Blues</a>",<sup id="cite_ref-Russell_2_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russell_2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which became a best-seller.<sup id="cite_ref-Devil_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Devil-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its <a href="/wiki/Melody" title="Melody">melody</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lyrics" title="Lyrics">lyrics</a> can be traced in many later blues and <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_roll" title="Rock and roll">rock and roll</a> songs, including "<a href="/wiki/Rock_Around_the_Clock" title="Rock Around the Clock">Rock Around the Clock</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_(R%26B_song)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kansas City (R&B song)">Kansas City</a>". Following this <a href="/wiki/Hit_record" class="mw-redirect" title="Hit record">hit</a> Jackson recorded a series of "Kansas City" follow-ups and soundalikes.<sup id="cite_ref-Devil_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Devil-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other artists recorded cover versions of the song (including <a href="/wiki/William_Harris_(musician)" title="William Harris (musician)">William Harris</a> in 1928<sup id="cite_ref-Trail_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trail-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) and reworked it (as <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Patton" class="mw-redirect" title="Charlie Patton">Charlie Patton</a> did, changing it to "Gonna Move to Alabama."<sup id="cite_ref-russell_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-russell-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) Jackson moved to Memphis in 1928 and made a series of further recordings, including the comic medicine show song "I Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop".<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinBlues_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinBlues-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also appeared in <a href="/wiki/King_Vidor" title="King Vidor">King Vidor</a>'s all-black 1929 film <i><a href="/wiki/Hallelujah!_(1929_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hallelujah! (1929 film)">Hallelujah!</a></i>, though it is unclear what role he played.<sup id="cite_ref-amg_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amg-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Jackson ran the Red Rose Minstrels, a travelling <a href="/wiki/Medicine_show" title="Medicine show">medicine show</a> which toured Mississippi, <a href="/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas">Arkansas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a>. As a talent scout for <a href="/wiki/Brunswick_Records" title="Brunswick Records">Brunswick Records</a>, he discovered Rufus "<a href="/wiki/Speckled_Red" title="Speckled Red">Speckled Red</a>" Perryman, gaining him his first recording session.<sup id="cite_ref-silvester_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-silvester-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shortly afterwards, in February 1930, Jackson recorded his last session. He later moved back to Hernando and continued to perform until his death in 1933. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Jackson_(musician)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Janis_Joplin" title="Janis Joplin">Janis Joplin</a> later recorded a <a href="/wiki/Cover_version" title="Cover version">version</a> of "Kansas City Blues", inserting the lyrics "Babe, I'm leavin', yeah I'm a-leavin' this mornin' / Goin' to Kansas City to bring Jim Jackson home".<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Jackson was a major influence on the Chicago bluesman <a href="/wiki/J._B._Lenoir" title="J. B. Lenoir">J. B. Lenoir</a>. Jackson's "Kansas City Blues" was a regular fixture of <a href="/wiki/Robert_Lee_McCollum" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Lee McCollum">Robert Nighthawk</a>'s concert set list.<sup id="cite_ref-amg_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amg-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Brownie McGhee said "Kansas City Blues" was "the first tune that I ever learned to play." (Seattle Folklore Society video). </p><p>The song "Wild About My Lovin'" was covered by the <a href="/wiki/The_Lovin%27_Spoonful" title="The Lovin' Spoonful">Lovin' Spoonful</a> and released on their 1965 debut album, <i><a href="/wiki/Do_You_Believe_in_Magic_(album)" title="Do You Believe in Magic (album)">Do You Believe in Magic</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Jackson_(musician)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_blues_musicians" title="List of blues musicians">List of blues musicians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_rock_and_roll_record" class="mw-redirect" title="First rock and roll record">First rock and roll record</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Recommended_recording">Recommended recording</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Jackson_(musician)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Recommended recording"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Jim Jackson Vols. 1–2</i> (Document Records)<sup id="cite_ref-russell_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-russell-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Jackson_(musician)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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Santa Barbara, California: Praeger. p. 516. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0313344237" title="Special:BookSources/978-0313344237"><bdi>978-0313344237</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Blues%3A+A+Regional+Experience&rft.place=Santa+Barbara%2C+California&rft.pages=516&rft.pub=Praeger&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=978-0313344237&rft.aulast=Eagle&rft.aufirst=Bob&rft.au=LeBlanc%2C+Eric+S.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJim+Jackson+%28musician%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-amg-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-amg_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-amg_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-amg_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-amg_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-amg_2-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jim-jackson-mn0000288104/biography">"Jim Jackson: Biography"</a>. <a href="/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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