Jim Jackson

Musician · d. 1933 · Hernando, Mississippi · Also a recording artist
Best known for Guitar Lead Vocals

Jim Jackson was a blues singer and guitarist from Hernando, Mississippi, who worked medicine shows and the Rabbit Foot Minstrels and played the clubs of Beale Street in Memphis before he began recording in 1927.

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  • His first record for Vocalion, “Jim Jackson’s Kansas City Blues” (1927), was a best seller, and its tune and words turned up in many later blues songs.
  • Recorded for Victor through 1928 and for Vocalion again from 1929, including the two-part “Hey Mama – It’s Nice Like That”; his last session was in February 1930.
  • Appeared in King Vidor’s 1929 film Hallelujah! He died in 1933.

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