Jackson Carey Frank (Buffalo, New York, March 2, 1943 – Great Barrington, Massachusetts, March 3, 1999) was an American folk musician.
Although he released only one official album in his lifetime and never
achieved much commercial success, he is reported to have influenced
several better-known singer-songwriters such as Paul Simon and Nick Drake.
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Frank died in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, from a combination of pneumonia and cardiac arrest, on March 3, 1999, at the age of 56.