Notes & Queries – November

NOTES In the August 2020 “Notes & Queries,” we fielded a query about the jam-session favorite and popular bluegrass number, “Love Please Come Home,” and its writer Leon Jackson. Leon, with his partner Johnny Bryant, fronted a band called the White Oak Mountain Boys. The group made at least eight recordings for the King label in July 1956. We just heard from one of one of Leon’s relatives: “Leon Jackson was born on a small farm five miles north of the Buttahatchie River and eight miles east of Hamilton, Alabama. Bryant was from Anniston, Alabama, I think. Uncle Leon still has three sisters and two brothers living in Hamilton.” - Wayne Holcombe | Irish Hills, Brooklyn, Michigan (Leon Jackson & Johnny Bryant recorded the following titles for King Records in 1956: “Buttahatchee; So Goes My Heart; White Oak Mountain Breakdown; Love Please Come Home; Go Find Another Man; This Heart’s Been Broken Before; Rocky Roads; Buttahatchee”—2nd version. Thank