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Wayne Jackson

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Born

in Memphis

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http://www.waynejacksonmusic.com

Genre

Music, Memoir, Nonfiction

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He played on a hit song his first day in the recording studio. He’s performed on over 50 number one records and 83 gold and platinum records. He’s toured the world and shared the stage with many of the most influential artists in modern music. And he wrote about it all along the way! "I knew I was on an extraordinary journey, so I kept journals, jotted things down, typed with two fingers, and eventually it all came together in three volumes...my magical story through five decades of music history."

Born in Memphis and raised across the river in the sleepy, cotton town of West Memphis, Arkansas, Wayne’s love of music began with a guitar. Then one night his mother came home with a trumpet for her eleven-year-old son. “I opened up the case, an He played on a hit song his first day in the recording studio. He’s performed on over 50 number one records and 83 gold and platinum records. He’s toured the world and shared the stage with many of the most influential artists in modern music. And he wrote about it all along the way! "I knew I was on an extraordinary journey, so I kept journals, jotted things down, typed with two fingers, and eventually it all came together in three volumes...my magical story through five decades of music history."

Born in Memphis and raised across the river in the sleepy, cotton town of West Memphis, Arkansas, Wayne’s love of music began with a guitar. Then one night his mother came home with a trumpet for her eleven-year-old son. “I opened up the case, and it smelled like oil and brass. I loved that, so I put it together, blew, and out came a pretty noise."

Wayne played in the junior high and senior high bands taking all honors at the local and state level. Soon he was sneaking out the back window to go play at the Jungle Inn on Highway Seventy and then it happened. In the 12th grade, he found himself playing with a group called The Mar-Keys. They had a number one instrumental smash on Stax Records called, “Last Night.” It was 1961.

What followed was a magical ride making music history with Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Rufus Thomas, Isaac Hayes, Eddie Floyd, Albert King and the rest of the Stax Records roster. “Back then, we had to do those songs from front to back with no mistakes and with good feelings. That’s what made musicians out of us. That’s what trained us."

In 1969, Wayne and sax man, Andrew Love, incorporated as The Memphis Horns and began offering their signature sound to artists around the world. Wayne found himself in the studio with a host of stars such as Elvis, Neil Diamond, B.J. Thomas, James Taylor, Al Green, Aretha Franklin and out on the road touring with Stephen Stills, Rod Stewart and The Doobie Brothers.

After moving to Nashville in the late Seventies, Wayne decided to trade in life on rock and roll jetliners for life on a billybus. He spent three years traveling the roads with country music legend, Marty Robbins, during which time he became the first horn player ever to perform on the Grand Ole Opry.

Then in the mid-Eighties Peter Gabriel called, and Wayne’s work on “Sledgehammer” catapulted him back on top of rock and roll. From that day forward, Wayne has been in the studio with Neil Young, U2, Billy Joel, Steve Winwood, Bonnie Raitt, Sting, Jack White, Lenny Kravitz, Collective Soul, just to name a few, and on the road with Stephen Stills, The Doobie Brothers, Joe Cocker, Jimmy Buffett, Robert Cray, Luther Allison.

Wayne, wife, Amy, and pup, Gracie, moved back home to Memphis in 2010. On February 11, 2012, Wayne and Andrew, received the highest honor in the music industry… a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. On April 12, 2012, Andrew Love passed away at home from complications of Alzheimer’s. Says Wayne, “How fortuitous of God to have put the two of us together. The first time I heard Andrew play I knew we would be perfect together. He had a big tone, and I had a big tone. And I knew that they would blend in the most natural, beautiful way. We loved to laugh together. We laughed and traveled all over the world making records and touring with artists of all genres. We got to do what we loved everyday and share our unique gifts.” ...more

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Average rating: 4.78 · 9 ratings · 1 review · 4 distinct works

	In My Wildest Dreams - Take 1 (Volume 1) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In My Wildest Dreams - Take 2 (Volume 2) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In My Wildest Dreams - Take 3 (Volume 3) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Princess And The Spaceman 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars