Jackson C. Frank

Blues Run The Game

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With a life as tragic as any bluesman, Jackson C. Frank wrote songs laced with melancholy and pathos, and the best of these ("Blues Run the Game," "My Name Is Carnival," "Halloween Is Black as Night") are striking in their resignation and their acceptance of the dark turns of fate. Badly burned as a teenager in a school fire, Frank learned to play guitar during his lengthy stay in the hospital, and when a considerable insurance settlement from the accident rolled in, he departed for England, landing there in 1965 in the midst of the British folk revival, where he influenced (and was influenced by) an impressive list of musicians, including Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Sandy Denny, and another expatriate, Paul Simon. Simon produced Frank's first and only album, Blues Run the Game, named after Frank's most enduring song. Recordings for a second album faltered, and Frank returned to the States, where the inability to escape his childhood scars led to mental illness and a downward spiral that ended in homelessness and a life on the streets of New York. http://www.answers.com/topic/blues-run-the-game-sanctuary

Jackson C. Frank died n 1999.
If you'd like to read more about Frank, visit http://www.blueangel.demon.co.uk/jcfrank/froots.html

track listing

Blues Run the Game

Don't Look Back

Kimbie

Yellow Walls

Here Comes the Blues

Milk and Honey

My Name is Carnival

I Want to Be Alone (Dialogue)

Just Like Anything

You Never Wanted Me

Marlene

Marcy's Song (She's Just a Picture)

The Visit

Prima Donna of Swans

Relations

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