#1 Mike Jackson (23 December 1888, Louisville, Kentucky - 21 June 1945, New York City, New York) was an American blues and jazz pianist and songwriter.

Mike Jackson appeared in the 1920s as Jackson and His Southern Stompers, from 1925 to 1927 he did 33 recording sessions with a.o. Alberta Hunter and Laura Smith, and with Bobbie Leecan and Robert Cooksey as the Dixie Jazzers Washboard Band .

Among the songs written by Jackson are Scandal Black Hearse Blues (1925).
His songs I'm Alabama Bound, Slender, Tender and Tall and Knock Me a Kiss were among others played by Jimmie Lunceford and Louis Jordan.
The Louisville Blues (1921), which he wrote with Bob Ricketts, was recorded in 1923 by WC Handy (Okeh 4789)
Sexy material was also quite common with performers such as Jackson, if not representing the most popular type of song from this genre. "Meat Man Pete" was considered such a winner that it was eventually shopped over to the talented Georgia country blues artist Barbecue Bob.

#2 Mike Jackson is a singer/songwriter born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Northwestern Arkansas. Since 1991, he has made his home just north of Nashville, Tennessee.

Mike grew up just a few miles from the Buffalo National River, in the rural community of Marshall, Arkansas. He began playing guitar as a teen, and wrote his first song while still in school. After graduation, Mike worked as a disc jockey and copywriter for a number of years, before eventually meeting up with a former Motown executive, whose influences, along with those of Nashville producer and publisher Bob Millsap, brought Mike to the Nashville area in the early 90's.

Mike's first song cut was by bluegrass legend Mac Wiseman, a song called Countin' Pennies that appeared on Mac's MCA/DOT Master Series Album in the 80's. Since then, Mike has been involved in the music industry as a songwriter, music publisher, performer and producer, in both the bluegrass and Christian music fields.

Mike's current album project is called WHEN WE GOIN' BACK, and features some of bluegrass music's best musicians, including Jason Carter on fiddle, Ronnie McCoury on mandolin, Clay Hess on guitar, Charlie Cushman on banjo and Robert Gateley on the upright bass. Background vocals from longtime HoneyRun bandmates Eddie Cooper and Casey Morton round out the vocals, while a duet with Sarah Peasall of the Peasall Sisters brings Countin' Pennies to life once more.

Red Oak Sound is Mike's new recording studio in White House, Tennessee, where his latest album WHEN WE GOIN' BACK was recorded, mixed and mastered. Both his recording studio and the Red Oak Records label are an homage to the small Ozark communities where he grew up around Marshall, Arkansas. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.