With a mother from Tupelo , Mississippi , and a father from middle Tennessee, Jack Pearson grew up in a musical f amily. When he was a child, his brother , Stanley, t aught him how to play blues guitar . After he had been playing for about a year, his brother handed him a metal slide and said, “Here , boy, you need to learn how to play slide.” When Jack asked him how to use it, his brother said, “I don’t know how, but you need to learn.”
In the eighties , Pearson became friends with Warren Haynes . T he friendship led to Pearson playing with both Greg Allman and Friends and t he Allman Brothers . Pearson currently tours , teaches guitar , and runs a n instructional website to “pass it along to the younger players.”
Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Jack Pearson at Bubba's Blues Corner; Helena, Arkansas, 2017
© Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas
