John Jackson grew up in rural Virginia, listening to the older musicians around him and the blues stars whose records he heard on his family's wind-up phonograph. For a while in his youth, he played at country dances, but mostly he just picked the guitar and banjo for his own amusement, and his tastes ranged from the Piedmont blues of Blind Blake, Josh White and Blind Boy Fuller to the hillbilly yodels of Jimmie Rodgers and an old-time banjo style that reached back to the 19th century.

• A Fishing Story
• Boats Up The River
• Bootlegger Blues
• Buckets Got A Hole In It
• Diddie Wa Diddie
• John's Rag
• Key To The Highway
• Kneel At The Cross
• Midnight Hour Blues
• Reuben
• San Francisco Bay Blues
• That Will Never Happen No More
• Troublin' Mind
• When You And I Were Young, Maggie