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Billy Edd Wheeler

Jackson
1963 · via Johnny Cash · kept by 1
Billy Edd Wheeler – Jackson
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Billy Edd Wheeler co-wrote "Jackson" and put it on tape in 1963, four years before Cash got to it. Play his first, then the duet, and you can hear how much room he left for two people to fight in.

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Liner notes

Written by Jerry Leiber, Billy Edd Wheeler.

First recorded by Billy Edd Wheeler in 1963.

Also recorded by Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs (1965), Johnny Cash & June Carter (1967), Johnny Cash feat. June Carter (1968), Jerry Lee Lewis & Linda Gail Lewis (1969).

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Before Johnny Cash and June Carter made "Jackson" a duet, one of the song's two writers recorded it himself first. Who?Billy Edd Wheeler
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