Tommy Jackson (musician)
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| Birth name | Thomas Lee Jackson Jr. |
| Born | March 31, 1926 Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. |
| Died | December 9, 1979 (aged 53) Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Genres | Country |
| Instrument(s) | Fiddle |
| Years active | 1940s-1970s |
Thomas Lee "Tommy" Jackson Jr. (March 31, 1926 – December 9, 1979) was an American fiddle player, regarded as "one of the finest commercial fiddle players of all time".[1] He played on hundreds of country records from the 1940s to the 1970s, and it has been claimed that he "has probably been heard on more country records than any other musician".[2]
Biography
Born in Birmingham, Alabama, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee as a baby with his family. Something of a child prodigy as a fiddle player, he toured with Johnnie Wright and Kitty Wells, and performed as a teenager with the Curley Williams and Paul Howard bands at the Grand Ole Opry, before serving as a tail gunner in the Army Air Forces in World War II.[1][2][3]
On his return to civilian life in 1946, he toured with
He returned to Nashville in the early 1950s, and recorded with Hank Williams,
His studio work largely dried up during the 1970s as younger players took over. He died in Nashville in 1979 at the age of 53.
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-199-92083-9.
- ^ a b c d Charles Wolfe, "Tommy Jackson – King of the 50s Fiddlers", Native Ground. Retrieved 6 September 2015
- ^ a b c Biography by Bruce Eder, Allmusic.com. Retrieved 6 September 2015
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