There are big names in folk Dylan, Joni Mitchell, CSN, Fairport Convention ... but also a cohort of genius burned became posthumously famous (Nick Drake) or not. Jackson C. Frank belongs to the second category. We pay tribute.
The genius is it relentlessly bound to a life drenched disappointments of various kinds of blatant injustice, repeated felonies and short circuits preventing a pop artist to meet his audience (the reverse is also possible)?
One is tempted to believe. The life of one of the most talented songwriter in the folk scene is the most telling example, the evidence most compelling.
C. Franck, is a genius but a genius who would have enjoyed the most appetizing dishes of destiny before an irritant as short glimpse of the late feast of fame which surrounds his legend since he dozes to six feet under ground, ignoring all of his undeniable influence, unwavering cult dedicated to him today.
Born in 1943 in Buffalo (NY), he spent his early childhood in a corner of Ohio before
to move to the place of all trauma: Cheektogawa. Indeed, that is, in a small school, music lessons full of boiler accident that caused a fire that will make eighteen victims and let the little Jackson seriously wounded, deeply traumatized - nailed for seven months on a bed hospital. During this lengthy convalescence, a professor al'excellente idea to bring the boy plunged into despair a brand new guitar, just to kill time and not to sink into melancholia, he tries it, feels so comfortable that it will offer a Gretsch electric by his mother, who also knew that the child worships insatiable Elvis (Graceland already partitioned) will be in even let her meet her idol, overwhelmed by the experience that the boy lived. An unprecedented shock and the certainty of a vocation.
At 16, he decided to become a rock singer, still falls in journalism school for his key back but five years later a frighteningly large sum, compensation by insurance for the accident that almost cost him his life. He slams while luxury cars and designer suits of dubious taste. Boxes, we sell the finest in England, he went, and during his Atlantic crossing scribbled in a notebook the songs that will build his legend - (Dialogue, Milk and Honey, Carnival ...) The fantasy of the beautiful Cars can be replaced very quickly by the discovery of hallucinatory London folk scene, a pool of exceptional talent including Tim Hardin, Bert Jansher, Fred Neil take music lovers on their toes. From club to club, he finally fell on Paul Simon, hosted by a woman he meets in his nocturnal wanderings - that shock. Simon listens to handle the compound wriggling rogue has scrawled, Simon is shocked! we may be there is a new Dylan, without losing a minute, he promises to produce his first album "Blue runs The Games' record makes him discover his nuggets and passing the very singular personality of the composer. A type of shyness and an eccentricity that hides a great sorrow. Regardless, the mixture of Franck, melancholy folk deployed in a quavering voice (close to Fred Neil, for example) and quickly won the John Peel broadcasts frequently on her show's legendary BBC - listeners wanting more success and points his snout in the forest of events.
In 65, new big meeting, he falls in love with a nurse of 19 years, Sandy Denny, they come together and sing when he hears one of his own compositions, including fast enough that it should abandon his job and turned full toward a singing career, it will not be wrong, Sandy Denny also tragic destiny become one of the greatest singers of folk melodies (we will devote an article soon).
the concerts themselves, the reputation is getting stronger, until 68 or Franck learns that sales of her debut album never really took off, dropped by her record label, looking for inspiration and noting that the mode of introspective folk, hitherto predominant, is being dissolved, he decided to return to the United States where a new drama steals his young son, who suffers from a rare disease. His wife also left, he sank into depression. The descent into hell will last until 90s, when a glimmer of hope will illuminate the sidewalks of his sad decline in the person of Jim Abbott, a crazy music that manages to find the artist homelessness and trying to make him walk the path of the studios. Frank believes it is severely weakened by a life of wandering, internment, and psychological crises that have taken because of its resistance. Stiff legs walks by without a goal, with a booty bag for all rotten and a pair of broken glasses, not to mention one eye, lost because of a nutcase who played alongside Ball Trapp in the buildings. However, thanks to Franck found his young guard (it manage to make him touch the copyright on the re-release of his first album) a brief respite - until the sad year 99, worn by his sad alternative lifestyle - the coward's heart the day after its 56th anniversary. Remains his first and only hard for us to consider what would have been if no misfortune had so cruelly tied to the destiny of this amazing composer, the career of one of the most promising talents of the 60s.
Didier Boudet
The genius is it relentlessly bound to a life drenched disappointments of various kinds of blatant injustice, repeated felonies and short circuits preventing a pop artist to meet his audience (the reverse is also possible)? One is tempted to believe. The life of one of the most talented songwriter in the folk scene is the most telling example, the evidence most compelling.
C. Franck, is a genius but a genius who would have enjoyed the most appetizing dishes of destiny before an irritant as short glimpse of the late feast of fame which surrounds his legend since he dozes to six feet under ground, ignoring all of his undeniable influence, unwavering cult dedicated to him today.
Born in 1943 in Buffalo (NY), he spent his early childhood in a corner of Ohio before
to move to the place of all trauma: Cheektogawa. Indeed, that is, in a small school, music lessons full of boiler accident that caused a fire that will make eighteen victims and let the little Jackson seriously wounded, deeply traumatized - nailed for seven months on a bed hospital. During this lengthy convalescence, a professor al'excellente idea to bring the boy plunged into despair a brand new guitar, just to kill time and not to sink into melancholia, he tries it, feels so comfortable that it will offer a Gretsch electric by his mother, who also knew that the child worships insatiable Elvis (Graceland already partitioned) will be in even let her meet her idol, overwhelmed by the experience that the boy lived. An unprecedented shock and the certainty of a vocation. At 16, he decided to become a rock singer, still falls in journalism school for his key back but five years later a frighteningly large sum, compensation by insurance for the accident that almost cost him his life. He slams while luxury cars and designer suits of dubious taste. Boxes, we sell the finest in England, he went, and during his Atlantic crossing scribbled in a notebook the songs that will build his legend - (Dialogue, Milk and Honey, Carnival ...) The fantasy of the beautiful Cars can be replaced very quickly by the discovery of hallucinatory London folk scene, a pool of exceptional talent including Tim Hardin, Bert Jansher, Fred Neil take music lovers on their toes. From club to club, he finally fell on Paul Simon, hosted by a woman he meets in his nocturnal wanderings - that shock. Simon listens to handle the compound wriggling rogue has scrawled, Simon is shocked! we may be there is a new Dylan, without losing a minute, he promises to produce his first album "Blue runs The Games' record makes him discover his nuggets and passing the very singular personality of the composer. A type of shyness and an eccentricity that hides a great sorrow. Regardless, the mixture of Franck, melancholy folk deployed in a quavering voice (close to Fred Neil, for example) and quickly won the John Peel broadcasts frequently on her show's legendary BBC - listeners wanting more success and points his snout in the forest of events.
In 65, new big meeting, he falls in love with a nurse of 19 years, Sandy Denny, they come together and sing when he hears one of his own compositions, including fast enough that it should abandon his job and turned full toward a singing career, it will not be wrong, Sandy Denny also tragic destiny become one of the greatest singers of folk melodies (we will devote an article soon).
the concerts themselves, the reputation is getting stronger, until 68 or Franck learns that sales of her debut album never really took off, dropped by her record label, looking for inspiration and noting that the mode of introspective folk, hitherto predominant, is being dissolved, he decided to return to the United States where a new drama steals his young son, who suffers from a rare disease. His wife also left, he sank into depression. The descent into hell will last until 90s, when a glimmer of hope will illuminate the sidewalks of his sad decline in the person of Jim Abbott, a crazy music that manages to find the artist homelessness and trying to make him walk the path of the studios. Frank believes it is severely weakened by a life of wandering, internment, and psychological crises that have taken because of its resistance. Stiff legs walks by without a goal, with a booty bag for all rotten and a pair of broken glasses, not to mention one eye, lost because of a nutcase who played alongside Ball Trapp in the buildings. However, thanks to Franck found his young guard (it manage to make him touch the copyright on the re-release of his first album) a brief respite - until the sad year 99, worn by his sad alternative lifestyle - the coward's heart the day after its 56th anniversary. Remains his first and only hard for us to consider what would have been if no misfortune had so cruelly tied to the destiny of this amazing composer, the career of one of the most promising talents of the 60s. Didier Boudet
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