Tommy Jackson | |
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Birth name | Thomas Lee Jackson Jr. |
Born | Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. | March 31, 1926
Died | December 9, 1979 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. | (aged 53)
Genres | Country |
Instrument | Fiddle |
Years active | 1940s-1970s |
Thomas Lee "Tommy" Jackson Jr. (March 31, 1926 – December 9, 1979) was an American fiddle player, regarded as "one of the finest commercial fiddle players of all time".[1] He played on hundreds of country records from the 1940s to the 1970s, and it has been claimed that he "has probably been heard on more country records than any other musician".[2]