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Music manager, promoter Randy Jackson dies




Randy Jackson, left, a music industry figure who worked with stars like Glen Campbell, has died.Courtesy / Absolute Publicity

Randy Jackson, left, a music industry figure who worked with stars like Glen Campbell, has died.Courtesy / Absolute Publicity

Longtime Nashville and Texas music manager, agent and promoter Randy Jackson died Dec. 21 in Alpine, Texas.

Jackson was 75.

Over the years Jackson offered up his services to a few of the brightest stars country music has ever produced, but he first began his career as a talent agent for the Hubert Long Agency.

He would go on to work with Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty until becoming the road manager for Johnny Rodriguez.

Next, Jackson went on to work as an agent for Charley Pride at the late Country Music Hall of Fame member’s booking agency, Chardon, in Dallas. While working with Pride, Jackson discovered the new talent of Neal McCoy and Janie Fricke.

Jackson first became Fricke’s manager and then her husband.

After a time, he married his second wife, Sherry Jackson, and returned to his college alma mater, Sul Ross University, in Alpine. There, the couple tutored football players while supporting the Lobos football team. Sul Ross gave him the honorary title “Mr. Sul Ross” and named the athletic field house after him. Jackson produced and promoted concerts in Texas and Florida.

Jackson loved coon dogs and wrote and published a popular book of poetry inspired by his love of the breed titled “The Coon Dog Chronicles.”

Jackson once said “A promoter is only as good as his last show.”

Three days before he died, Jackson’s final show was an Asleep at the Wheel concert at the Cailloux Theater in Kerrville, Texas.

It was a sold-out show.

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