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No footnotes|date=May 2009Infobox musical artist |name = Stonewall Jackson|background = solo_singer|birth_name = Stonewall Jackson|birth_date = birth date and age|1932|11|06|birth_place = Tabor City, North Carolina|Tabor City , North Carolina , United States of America|U.S. |genre = Country music|Country |associated_acts = Ray Price (musician)|Ray Price , Hank Williams , Lefty Frizzell |occupation = Musician |years_active = 1956& ndash;present|label = Columbia Records|Columbia |website = Stonewall Jackson (born November 6, 1932) is an United States|American Country music|country singer and musician who achieved his greatest fame during country's "golden" honky tonk music|honky tonk era in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Biography
Early years
Jackson, born Tabor City, North Carolina , is the youngest of three children. He was named after the Confederate States of America|Confederate Stonewall Jackson|Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson , who he claims was an ancestor; the name is not a nickname. His father died when he was two and his mother moved the family to South Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia . Jackson grew up there working on his uncle's farm. Jackson enlisted in the United States Navy|Navy in 1950 and was discharged in 1954. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1956.
Recording career
After hearing Jackson's demo tape , Wesley Rose , president of Acuff-Rose Music , arranged for Jackson to audition for the Grand Ole Opry . Jackson became the first artist to join the Grand Ole Opry before obtaining a recording contract . He toured with Ernest Tubb , who became his mentor. Jackson signed to Columbia Records and debuted in 1958 with "Don't Be Angry". The song did not score in the country music top 40, but it got him recognition.
His breakthrough came in the country Top 40 in late 1958, with a song written by a young George Jones , "Life to Go". It peaked at No. 2 in early 1959 and his follow-up record, " Waterloo (Stonewall Jackson song)|Waterloo ", was No. 1 for five weeks and crossed over into the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100| Billboard Hot 100 record chart|chart , where it reached No. 4. The track also reached No. 24 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1959.cite book | first= David | last= Roberts | year= 2006 | title= British Hit Singles & Albums | edition= 19th | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London | isbn= 1-904994-10-5 | page= 276 It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a music recording sales certification|gold disc .cite book | first= Joseph | last= Murrells | year= 1978 | title= The Book of Golden Discs | edition= 2nd | publisher= Barrie and Jenkins Ltd | location= London | page= 115 | isbn= 0-214-20512-6 The song was a haunting and catchy tune that states "Everybody has to meet his Battle of Waterloo|Waterloo ", meaning their destiny|fate . The song cites Adam and Eve|Adam , Napoleon and Tom Dooley (song)|Tom Dooley as examples.
His next No. 1 hit came in 1964, with " B.J. the D.J. " (about an over-worked country music radio station disc jockey , who crashes his car in a rainstorm because of bad tires). In 1963, Jackson was the first artist to record a live album from the Grand Ole Opry with Old Showboat. Other songs of his include "The Carpet On The Floor", "Why I'm Walkin'", "A Wound Time Can't Erase" and "I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water". Jackson also recorded a cover version of Lobo (musician)|Lobo 's 1971 hit record|hit , " Me and You and a Dog Named Boo (song)|Me and You and a Dog Named Boo ".
From 1958 to 1971, Jackson had 35 Top 40 country hits. Along with Ray Price (musician)|Ray Price , Jackson is considered a cornerstone, after Hank Williams and Lefty Frizzell , of the hard-driving honky tonk music|honky tonk sound in the late 1950s and early 1960s.by whom|date=May 2009
Later years
In 2006, Jackson sued the Grand Ole Opry for $10 million in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damage, claiming age discrimination . As a member of the Opry for over fifty years, Jackson believed that management was sidelining him in favor of younger artists. In his court filing, Jackson claimed that Opry general manager Pete Fisher stated that he did not "want any gray hairs on that stage or in the audience, and before I'm done there won't be any." Fisher is also alleged to have told Jackson that he was "too old and too country." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070112/ap_en_mu/people_stonewall_jackson Yahoo& #33; News, 1/12/07 The lawsuit was settled on October 3, 2008 for an undisclosed amount and Jackson returned to performing on the show. http://www.cmt.com/news/news-in-brief/1596410/stonewall-jacksons-lawsuit-against-opry-settled.jhtml "Stonewall Jackson's Lawsuit Against Opry Settled" Cmt.com, October 6, 2008
Jackson lives on a farm in Brentwood, Tennessee with his wife Juanita, who is also his personal manager and operates his song publishing company, Turp Tunes. He has a son, Stonewall Jackson, Jr.
Trott, Walt (1998). "Stonewall Jackson". In The Encyclopedia of Country Music . Paul Kingsbury, Editor. New York: Oxford University Press. p.& nbsp;259.
Persondata | NAME = Jackson, Stonewall | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = Country musician | DATE OF BIRTH = November 6, 1932 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Tabor City, North Carolina | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Jackson, Stonewall Category:1932 births Category:Living people Category:People from Columbus County, North Carolina Category:American country singers Category:American male singers Category:Grand Ole Opry members Category:Musicians from North Carolina
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