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Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 256
Illustrations: 25 b&w halftones

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Live at Jackson Station

Music, Community, and Tragedy in a Southern Blues Bar

Daniel M. Harrison

Paperback
978-1-64336-145-1
Published: Jan 28 2021

$24.99

Hardcover
978-1-64336-206-9
Published: Jan 28 2021

$54.99

Ebook
978-1-64336-146-8
Published: Jan 28 2021

The smoke was thick, the music was loud, and the beer was flowing. In the fast-and-loose 1980s, Jackson Station Rhythm & Blues Club in Hodges, South Carolina, was a festive late-night roadhouse filled with people from all walks of life who gathered to listen to the live music of high-energy performers. Housed in a Reconstruction-era railway station, the blues club embraced local Southern culture and brought a cosmopolitan vibe to the South Carolina backcountry.

Over the years, Jackson Station became known as one of the most iconic blues bars in the South. It offered an exciting venue for local and traveling musical artists, including Widespread Panic, the Swimming Pool Qs, Bob Margolin, Tinsley Ellis, and R&B legend Nappy Brown, who loved to keep playing long after sunrise.

The good times ground to a terrifying halt in the early morning hours of April 7, 1990. A brutal attack—an apparent hate crime—on the owner Gerald Jackson forever altered the lives of all involved.

In this fast-paced narrative, Jackson Station emerges as a cultural kaleidoscope that served as an oasis of tolerance and diversity in a time and place that often suffered from undercurrents of bigotry and violence—an uneasy coexistence of incongruent forces that have long permeated southern life and culture.




Listen to Dan Harrison on SC Public Radio's Walter Edgar's Journal

Listen to Dan Harrison on the New Books Network Politics & Sociology podcast

Listen to Dan Harrison on South Carolina State Library's Library Voices SC podcast

Listen to Dan Harrison on the Inside Jackson Station podcast.

Available in audiobook from Tantor Media

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