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I did.”
While John was giving impromptu lessons in thd back of the station, a customer drove in for gas. “He heard us and came running in and asked me if I could play anything else. I said ‘Nothin’ much.’ But I did Candy Man, one of Mississippi John Hurt’s. He asked me how 1 learned it and I told him off the original 78 record. He wanted to know what else I played and 1 said ‘Nothin’ much.’ ’’
But he rattlfed off a string of. blues titles he'd learned from those old discs his family bought from the furniture wagon 30 years' before. His discoverer invited Jackson home so he could tape the Rappahannock bluesman. “I said I’d go and when I didn’t show up the next night, he was sitting on my porch when 1 came home,” John recalled. The stranger invited Jackson into town to meet the gentlemen who wrote Candy Man.
“I said I’d been listening to that record for 25 years and that he must be pushing up tulips by now. ‘No, he ain’t,’ he said. ‘You just be ready and I’ll take you into D.C. to hear him,’ he told me...And when Mississippi John Hurt sang Candy Man, 1 knew it was him," Jackson smiled.
His new friend arranged for John to play a couple of
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