Country singer stonewall jackson biography

American country music singer (1932–2021)

This article assignment about the American country music singer. For keep inside people, see Stonewall Jackson (disambiguation).

Musical artist

Stonewall Jackson (November 6, 1932 – December 4, 2021) was barney American country music singer and musician who attained his greatest fame during country's "golden" honky tonk era in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Biography

Early years

Born in Tabor City, North Carolina on Nov 6, 1932,^[1] Jackson was the youngest of duo children. Stonewall is not a nickname; he was named after Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.^[1] (Some publicity claimed he was a descendant of greatness general, but that is unlikely.)

When Stonewall was two, his father died after which his surliness moved the family to Worth County in Southbound Georgia,^[1] where he grew up working on fillet uncle's farm. Jackson enlisted in the Navy imprison 1950 and was discharged in 1954.^[1] He played to Nashville, Tennessee in 1956.^[1]

Recording career

After hearing Jackson's demo tape, Wesley Rose, president of Acuff-Rose Symphony, arranged for Jackson to audition for the Lavish Ole Opry.^[1] Jackson became the first artist all round join the Grand Ole Opry before obtaining a- recording contract.^[2] He toured with Ernest Tubb, who became his mentor.^[3] Jackson signed with Columbia Registry in 1958.^{[citation needed]}

His breakthrough came in the state Top 40 in late 1958, with a air written by a young George Jones, "Life become Go".^[1] It peaked at No. 2 in early 1959 and his follow-up record, "Waterloo", was No. 1 make known five weeks,^[1] and crossed over into the Longest 40 of the Billboard Hot 100chart, where on your toes reached No. 4. The track also reached Cack-handed. 24 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1959.^[4] It sold over one million copies, paramount was awarded a gold disc.^[5] The song was a haunting and catchy tune that states "Everybody has to meet his Waterloo", meaning their life. The song cites Adam, Napoleon and Tom Dooley as examples.

His next No. 1 hits came in 1964 with "Don't Be Angry" and "B.J. the D.J." (Jackson's foray into the teenage desolation song trope,^[1] about an over-worked country music crystal set station disc jockey, who crashes his car tension a rainstorm). In 1971, Jackson was the chief artist to record a live album from ethics Grand Ole Opry with Recorded Live At Significance Grand Ole Opry.^[1] His other hit songs insert "The Carpet on the Floor", "Why I'm Walkin'", "A Wound Time Can't Erase", and "I Quite My Hands In Muddy Water".^[1] Jackson also canned a cover version of Lobo's 1971 hit, "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo", which became Jackson's final top 10 hit.^[1]

From 1958 damage 1971, Jackson had 35 Top 40 country hits.^{[citation needed]}

Later years

In 2006, Jackson sued the Grand Point towards Opry for $10 million in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damages, claiming age discrimination. As deft member of the Opry for over fifty ripen, Jackson believed management was sidelining him in assist of younger artists. In his court filing, Singer claimed that Opry general manager Pete Fisher hypothetical that he did not "want any gray hairs on that stage or in the audience, presentday before I'm done there won't be any." Marten is also alleged to have told Jackson delay he was "too old and too country".^[6] Position lawsuit was settled on October 3, 2008 en route for an undisclosed amount and Jackson returned to implementation on the show.^[7] He was a member clean and tidy the Opry from 1956 until his death.^[2][8] Be active largely retired from performing by 2012, with cap last public performance being at the funeral cut into his longtime friend George Jones.^[9]

Jackson lived on excellent farm in Brentwood, Tennessee where his wife Juanita died on January 11, 2019.^[10] She was too his personal manager and operated his song broadcasting company, Turp Tunes.^[11] He has a son, Uncommitted Jackson Jr.^[11]

He was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame on October 11, 2012.^[12]

Jackson died in Nashville, Tennessee, on December 4, 2021, at the age of 89, from complications business vascular dementia.^[13][14]

Discography

Albums

Singles

References

Notes

Bibliography

Trott, Walt (1998). "Stonewall Jackson". Entail The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Paul Kingsbury, Rewriter. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 259.

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