Daughters remember veteran musician Jackie Jackson as devoted dad
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WESTERN BUREAU: To the world, Clifton ‘Jackie’ Jackson was the legendary bass guitarist whose fingers helped shape some of Jamaican music’s most enduring recordings. To his four daughters, he was simply ‘Dad’, the quiet protector who wanted them to have the things he never had, helped negotiate the purchase of their cars, loved giving them gifts and, above all, raised them to become fiercely independent women.