He said he’d get himself another one when he got his paycheck. So he wound up giving me the guitar but told me he wanted me to learn every song I liked on the radio. So I’m playing and crying and he was surprised to see me playing something very basic, very simple. He punished me really well for it! He put it in my lap and told me, “Show me what you know!”. Then I broke a string….and he found that I had been playing his guitar. She’d let me know when my father would be back, saying “Your father will be back in an hour of so, better put that back”. So I would take the guitar out of the closet and out of the case and played it for months and my mom would let me do it”. My father used to play the guitar and he’d tell me and my brothers when he’d go to work, “don’t touch my guitar!” Telling a little kid that around seven or eight years old that is like saying “touch my guitar!”. My Father and my Uncle Luther would get together on the weekends and play blues guitars they both were guitarists and I used to be a little boy sitting there staring at their fingering, seeing what they were doing and enjoying what they were doing. At what point did you get into the blues?Ī: It started long, long before the Jackson 5 even started. You came from a pop and R&B background with one of the most famous groups ever. Tito Jackson talked to the Los Angeles Beat recently about his musical history, how he began loving the blues, his latest album Under Your Spell and headlining the upcoming Long Beach News Festival. As they grew older, brothers Michael, Jermaine, Marlon and Jackie continued performing pop and soul music, while Tito went on to become a blues guitarist and singer. Although Tito Jackson loved performing their “bubblegum soul” sound that captivated millions, Tito’s desire to play the blues never went away. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, the Jackson 5’s unique sound took the world by storm. Growing up in a musical family, he sang and played guitar with his family’s group which we all know as the Jackson 5. He’s been playing blues guitar since he was a child. Tito Jackson really needs no introduction. Also featured will be a very special performance by Bill Grisolia and the New Blues Festival All-Stars. This year, there is an awesome lineup of top blues artists playing, including Sugaray Rayford Redd House Laurie Morvan Lester Lands perennial Festival favorite the New Blues Revolution Corday East LA blues band The Disciplez She Wears Black Dano Forte and international blues star TJ & The Suitcase. The event will be held at a new location, the beautiful Shoreline Aquatic Park, on the water in Long Beach.

Tito Jackson and his band are coming to Long Beach, to headline the Long Beach New Blues Festival on Saturday, November 13.

Beach life festival 2021 lineup