Biography
Jackson Carey Frank (né Jones; March 2, 1943 – March 3, 1999) was an American folk musician. He released his first and only album in 1965, produced by Paul Simon. After the release of the record, Frank was plagued by a series of personal issues, and was diagnosed with schizophrenia and protracted depression that prevented him from maintaining his career. Frank spent his later life homeless and destitute, and died in 1999 from a combination of pneumonia and cardiac arrest. Though he only released one record, he has been cited as an influence by many singer-songwriters, including Paul Simon, Sandy Denny, Bert Jansch, and Nick Drake. Rolling Stone journalist David Fricke called Frank "one of the best forgotten songwriters of the 1960s."
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Sounds Of Silence
1966
The Essential Simon & Garfunkel
2003
Family Tree
2007
The Brown Bunny (Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2003
The Columbia Studio Recordings 1964-1970
2001
Old Friends
1997
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating The Music Of "Inside Llewyn Davis"
2015
Has God Seen My Shadow? An Anthology 1989-2011
2014
Jackson C. Frank
1965
Films About Ghosts (The Best Of Counting Crows)
2003
Mow The Glass
2018
Single Releases 2010 (Volume Two)
2011
Blues Run The Game
2010
I've Always Kept A Unicorn: The Acoustic Sandy Denny
2016
Good Morning Rain
1970
Bonnie Dobson
1969
Credited work
396 releases · 107 albums · active 1965–2026
- Performance · 479
- Other credits · 28
- Engineering · 2
Studios: Sony Music Studios, New York City · Nippon Columbia Studio · Eastern Sound · RCA Studios, Toronto