Lil' Son Jackson

Lil' Son Jackson: Rockin' and Rollin' (Volume 1; 1948-49)

by Robert R. Calder
September 5, 2006

Instant nostalgia for veteran blues fans: the opening track here, “Roberta," the first ever recording by Melvin “Lil' Son" Jackson, came out on a pioneering anthology of mostly pre-war blues some forty years back. Few blues records, new or otherwise, had then been available very far from the blues' native home and birthplace. Almost exactly two years older than John Lee Hooker, Jackson seems to have been induced to do a Hooker cover on his second, 1949 ...