Hard Times - Mike Jackson

#1 Mike Jackson (23 December 1888, Louisville, Kentucky - 21 June 1945, New York City, New York) was an American blues and jazz pianist and songwriter. Mike Jackson appeared in the 1920s as Jackson and His Southern Stompers, from 1925 to 1927 he did 33 recording sessions with a.o. Alberta Hunter and Laura Smith, and with Bobbie Leecan and Robert Cooksey as the Dixie Jazzers Washboard Band . Among the songs written by Jackson are Scandal Black Hearse Blues (1925).


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