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Lanka, Pakistan, Cairo—17 foreign counties in all.
"I don’t even know the names of all the places where we were,’’ Jackson said of the two month goodwill tour.
Audiences were enthusiastic. A stack of photographs show Jackson and the rest of the troupe playing to packed houses of smiling faces and clapping hands. Other shots capture Jackson meeting a real life Oriental princess, watching an elderly musician play an ancient Eastern guitar thousands of years old and admiring foreign crafts and art forms.
“1 >vas the only blaclj person on the tour. They treated me like some kind of king,” Jackson said, adding that his audiences, for the most part, had never heard blues before.
No Place Like Home
But even with royal attention amidst the jeweled mausoleums and temples of the East, Jackson was glad to arrive home. “There’s no country like the United States. Other places, no matter how much money you have, you can’t get the comforts we have here at home.”
He came back to enough requests to fill his engagement calendar for months. Jackson currently has offers for three European
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