Tommy Jackson's lyrics & chords

Thomas Lee Jackson (born March 31, 1926 in Birmingham, Alabama, died December 9, 1979 in Nashville, Tenessee) was a virtuoso fiddler. In his time, from the end of the 1940s until the beginning of the 1960s, he was the first important session fiddle player in Nashville, and the best and busiest violinist in country music, working on records by Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, and George Jones, among numerous others. One of the sad ironies of his career was that his influence led to Jackson's own forced retirement -- so many younger players followed ...read more