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John Jackson will bring the music he’s performed at the White House, Wolf Trap and around the world back to Rappahannock County on December 17 for a concert it) the old Gay Street Theater. ti
John began his musical career in th$ F. T. Valley where he was born and raised. His father, a sharecropper on local farms, played the guitar; his mother played the French harp and accordian. He grew up surrounded by aunts, uncles, cousins and visiting blues men who performed that uniquely American form of music at tourist homes in the Blue Ridge Mountains on the county’s western border. His first guitar lessons were from a man he remembers only as Hap, a convict on the crew that built Rappahannock's first paved road.
Hap drifted out of his life but John's musical education continued, his teachers the black blues singers who recorded on race labels in the 1930s — Blind Blake. Bessie Smith. Lemon Jefferson and Furry Lewis — and the legendary country greats, Jimmy Rodgers and the Carter family. With friends and relatives, he played at parties and gatherings across Rappahannock.
But the opportunities to make music weren’t enough to keep John in the county. In 1949. he joined the outmigration to city jobs, moving his family to Fairfax where he found work as a I 4#' flit. tilt] i4t'i t
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