Freedom Train CD

Lil' Son Jackson
Freedom Train – Texas Blues of Lil Son Jackson 1949-1955 CD

Although the term 'Texas Blues' is rather more synonymous with guitar slingers like T-Bone Walker and Albert Collins, acoustic Country Blues performers like Lightning Hopkins and Melvin 'Lil' Son' Jackson were equally popular on their home patch.
Jackson emerged in the late 1940s and made the R&B Top 10 with his first release, Freedom Train Blues for the Gold Star label, on which he was billed as Little Son Jackson, in 1948.
Although none showed up on the national R&B charts, his later Gold Star 78s were all massive regional hits, selling in their tens of thousands to local jukebox operators.
He subsequently recorded extensively for Imperial Records, for whom his most notable release was Rockin' and Rollin' (1950), a disc which proved influential beyond all reasonable expectations, providing the template for Muddy Waters' Rock Me (1956) and B.B. King's Rock Me Baby (1964).