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Michael Gregory Jackson

Michael Gregory Jackson is moving to California. “I’m ready for a change,” he says. “I’ve been living on the coast of Maine, a beautiful place, but warm weather is calling.”

Not that he’s settled on a specific locale. “We’re scouting the warmest, sunniest parts of the Bay Area and seeing what we can find. We’ll give it six months; if it works out we’ll stay, if it doesn’t we’ll move on to something else.”

Such restlessness is par for the course with Jackson: Musically he can’t stay in one place for too long either. The

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