Live at Jackson Station: Music, Community, and Tragedy in a Southern Blues Bar
Zoomicon-zoom-in
Live at Jackson Station: Music, Community, and Tragedy in a Southern Blues Bar

Live at Jackson Station: Music, Community, and Tragedy in a Southern Blues Bar

By
Daniel M. Harrison (Author)  

Hardback

Available / dispatched within 1 - 2 weeks

Quantity

Also available on eBook for £14.09. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo

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. 25 black & white images
Daniel M. Harrison is a professor of sociology at Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina, and the author of Making Sense of Marshall Ledbetter: The Dark Side of Political Protest.
  • Contributor: Daniel M. Harrison
  • Imprint: University of South Carolina Press
  • ISBN13: 9781643362069
  • Number of Pages: 256
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
  • Release Date: 2021-01-30
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Daniel M. Harrison is a professor of sociology at Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina, and the author of Making Sense of Marshall Ledbetter: The Dark Side of Political Protest.

Delivery Options

Home Delivery

Store Delivery

Free Returns

We hope you are delighted with everything you buy from us. However, if you are not, we will refund or replace your order up to 30 days after purchase. Terms and exclusions apply; find out more from our Returns and Refunds Policy.