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played two concerts, Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Mr. Jackson, who was born and raised on a farm about three miles outside Sperryville on Rt. 231, told the Rappahannock News that “it feels great to be back home again.”
He brought his son James and long-time bass player Paul de Jardins to accompany him, and along with Madison County’s Moses Gentry the part-time gravedigger, parttime musician (as Mr. Jackson describes
himself) entertained about 100 people at the mid-afternoon shows. ?
Mr. Jackson’s wealth of tall tales, country stories, and banter with the audience was interspersed with a musical repertoire which ranged from traditional spirituals like “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” to more secular numbers like the “Bootlegger’s Blues”. At times he had the audience, which ranged in age from less than eight to nearly eighty, clapping and singing along as his distinctive deep voice boomed out the songs which he had first learned as a young boy on his family’s farm in Rappahannock, and which in more recent years have been heard in such faraway places as London and Sri Lanka.
“This is a great thing. I’m really glad to see so many groups involved, like the 4-H Club and the Junior
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