Although he released only one official album in his lifetime and never achieved much commercial success, he is reported to have influenced several better-known singer-songwriters such as
Jackson Carey Frank (Buffalo, New York, March 2, 1943 – Great Barrington, Massachusetts, March 3, 1999) was an American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist. When he briefly returned to England in 1968, his friends were horrified by the transformation they saw. 3
See more of Blues Run The Game - A movie about Jackson C. Frank on FacebookSee more of Blues Run The Game - A movie about Jackson C. Frank on FacebookABOUT BLUES RUN THE GAME - A MOVIE ABOUT JACKSON C. FRANKIn the mid-60s, Jackson C. Frank released a masterpiece of folk music in Britain. With Jackson C. Frank, Al Stewart, John Kay, John Renbourn.
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He returned to upstate New York, settling in the musician’s stronghold of Woodstock—the rural retreat of Bob Dylan and other major figures of the era.Around this period, Frank’s mental health began to decline. Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the
Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. The nervous singer was so intimidated by the presence of Simon—not to mention Art Garfunkel, who had dropped in for the session with local folkie (and future “Year of the Cat” and “Time Passages” hitmaker) Al Stewart—that he insisted on performing while hidden behind sound baffle screens.The album failed to make an impact, and within a few years Frank’s insurance fortune had been whiled away on cars, hotel rooms and other frivolous expenditures.
He tried to play ‘Blues Run the Game’ for me, but his voice was pretty much shot.”Abbott encouraged Frank to create again, persuading him to perform in local talent shows and sketch new ideas for songs. He began work on his long-delayed second album, but, as he later told Frank lived with his parents for several years after his discharge, before traveling to New York City in 1984 in a desperate attempt to find Paul Simon, by then a modern musical icon, whom he believed could help revive his career. Jackson Carey Frank (Buffalo, New York, March 2, 1943 – Great Barrington, Massachusetts, March 3, 1999) was an American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist.
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One afternoon, as he sat on a park bench in Queens, a gang of local kids shot him in the face with a pellet gun, permanently blinding his left eye.He arrived in Woodstock soon after the incident with the help of Jim Abbott, a fan who had managed to track him down in New York.
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"Blues Run the Game" is a 1965 song by the American singer-songwriter