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Jackie and Ry at The Ash Grove

As I've mentioned a few times in the past year, I'm an avid fan of Wolfgang's Vault. The site never

Jackie DeShannon's Liberty Singles Being Reissued By Ace UK

One of the great overlooked artists of the rock era is singer/songwriter Jackie DeShannon. Sure, peo

My Gold Mask Covers Jackie DeShannon

Singer/drummer Gretta Rochelle and guitarist Jack Armondo equal out to the haunting yet uplifting My

A Jackie DeShannon quartet

More than a decade before the singer-songwriter era of the early 1970s, Jackie DeShannon was interpr

Biography Jackie DeShannon

Jackie DeShannon, real name Sharon Lee Myers (born August 21, 1944, is an American singer/songwriter with a string of hit song credits from the 1960s onwards. She was one of the first female singer-songwriters of the rock 'n' roll period. Sharon Myers adopted the name Jackie DeShannon, believed to be an Irish ancestor. Executives at Liberty Records thought the name Sharon Myers wouldn't sell records. (She once reported that record executives added "Shannon" to "Jackie Dee," one of the names under which she recorded, to create her name.) Life and career Jackie DeShannon was born Sharon Lee Myers in Hazel, Kentucky. The daughter of musically inclined farm parents, Sandra Jean and James Erwin Myers, DeShannon was introduced to singing country tunes on a local radio show at the age of six. By the age of eleven, DeShannon was already hosting her own radio program. When life on the farm became too difficult, the family mov