Leon Jackson
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Songwriter
Leon Jackson was a bluegrass singer and songwriter best remembered for “Love Please Come Home,” the lonesome-love standard he first cut in 1957 with Johnny Bryant and the White Oak Mountain Boys. Reno & Smiley turned it into a touring favorite in 1972, and the song has since been covered by Del McCoury, the Country Gentlemen, Billy Strings, and a long line of younger bluegrass acts.
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- Wrote “Love Please Come Home” and first recorded it in 1957 with Johnny Bryant and the White Oak Mountain Boys.
- Reno & Smiley revived the song as “Love, Oh Please Come Home” in 1972, helping spread it to the bluegrass circuit.
- The song has been covered by Del McCoury, the Country Gentlemen, the Lonesome River Band, Billy Strings, and many others, and is a fixture of bluegrass jam sessions.