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caretaker on the 200-acre estate of John Barker.
He put his guitar down before he left, however. A fight that erupted at a dance where he was ying earlier and a drunken party-goer who’d accused him of stealing the instrument prompted his decision to leave music alone for a while.
Then 15 years laters, while playing "Candy Man" for a neighbor who'd pestered and pestered him for lessons. Jackson was discovered by Chuck Purdue, a folklorist from the University of Virginia who happened to pass by.
Purdue took him to D. C. to hear Mississippi John Hurt sing the same song and convinced Jackson to join the blues great on stage for a couple of numbers. A fellow in the audience jumped up with an offer to record and John's been on the road ever since. He now has four albums to his credit and has performed in South America, Europe, Japan. Australia, the Caribbean, Canada and the Far East. He’s sung for the President of the United States and for audiences on round-the-world goodwill tours sponsored by the International Communications Agency and the United States Department of State.
At the Gay Street Theater concert sponsored by the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community. John will be joined
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