Tommy Jackson (musician)

Tommy Jackson
Tommy Jackson
Birth name	Thomas Lee Jackson Jr.
Born	March 31, 1926; Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
Died	December 9, 1979 (aged 53); Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
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]

^ Stubbs, Eddie (2012). "Tommy Jackson". In Paul Kingsbury (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Oxford University Press. pp. 243–244. ISBN 978-0-199-92083-9.
^ Charles Wolfe, "Tommy Jackson – King of the 50s Fiddlers", Native Ground. Retrieved 6 September 2015

[stubbs-1] Stubbs, Eddie (2012). "Tommy Jackson". In Paul Kingsbury (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Oxford University Press. pp. 243–244. ISBN 978-0-199-92083-9.

[wolfe-2] Charles Wolfe, "Tommy Jackson – King of the 50s Fiddlers", Native Ground. Retrieved 6 September 2015

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