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John Jackson is featured on Classic Appalachian Blues from Smithsonian Folkways, a new album drawn from the archives of Smithsonian Folkways and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

The blues has been a major influence on American and Western popular music, inspiring ragtime, jazz, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, hip-hop, and country music. Blues legend John Jackson performs "Steamboat Whistle" at a tribute concert to the Anthology of American Folk Music.

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