Reddit mentions of Blues Run the Game

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|name|Jackson C. Frank|
|about artist|Jackson Carey Frank (Buffalo, New York, March 2, 1943 – Great Barrington, Massachusetts, March 3, 1999) was an American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist. Although he released only one official album in his lifetime and never achieved much commercial success, he is reported to have influenced several better-known singer-songwriters such as Paul Simon and Nick Drake. When Jackson Frank was 11, a furnace exploded at his school, sending a ball of flames down corridors until it ended up in Frank's music classroom in the Cleveland Hill Elementary School in Cheektowaga, New York. ([more on last.fm](http://www.last.fm/music/Jackson C. Frank))|
|album|Blues Run the Game, released Aug 1996|
|track|Marcy's Song|
|images|album image, artist image|
|links|lyrics, wikipedia, discogs, biography, fanpage, imdb, secondhandsongs, album on amazon|
|tags|folk, singersongwriter, acoustic|
|similar|Bert Jansch, Nick Drake, Fred Neil, Sibylle Baier, Tim Buckley|
|metrics|lastfm listeners: 100,722, lastfm plays: 1,519,946, youtube plays: 12,873, radd.it score: 8.75|


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I absolutely love my 2 disc Jackson C. Frank "Blues Run the Game" set. It's 42 tracks, every recording he ever did. Many of the songs are short, and very, very poor quality but the soul contained in each one just takes my breath away and breaks my heart. His voice is so hauntingly beautiful and he just lays every ounce of himself out in his words. Knowing a little bit of his very tragic background brings an even deeper element to his music.

I wish so badly he got the chance to become more recognized and appreciated... If you like folk/blues or just want to appreciate some honest music, give him a listen. I think you can find a couple of his songs on YouTube. I first heard of him during this scene in Daft Punk's Electroma... literally brought me to tears: http://youtu.be/_DxBx4FyTqY

A little background on him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_C._Frank

If you're interested in purchase: http://www.amazon.com/Blues-Run-Game-Jackson-Frank/dp/tracks/B0000A5BUK/ref=dp_tracks_all_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369409089&sr=8-1#disc_1