“Jackson” was written by Lucinda Williams, the acclaimed Americana songwriter. She recorded it as the closing track of her 1998 album “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.”
The song measures recovery from a breakup by distance. As the singer travels away, toward Jackson and Baton Rouge and beyond, she marks how far she must go before the grief loosens its hold; each place name is a milestone on the way out of heartbreak.
Williams’s songs have been widely embraced by roots and bluegrass performers.
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