Jackson plays struggling musician Avery Barkley on ABC TV's Nashville, and Avery's rise, fall and return from the ashes is one of the series' most compelling storylines. Jackson is a five-time Emmy Award winning actor who won those statues and heaps of accolades for his role as Lucky Spencer on the long running daytime soap opera General Hospital. He's also made People's list of the "50 Most Beautiful People." But what he proved at the NAMM show were his abilities as an accomplished singer, songwriter and guitarist.

On Nashville - where Gibson guitars play plenty of cameo roles - Avery often appears onscreen with a variety of Gibsons, including Les Pauls, ES-335s and a Jeff Tweedy SG. At the NAMM acoustic stage, the spotlight was squarely on Jonathan's angelic tenor voice and his Gibson L-00 guitar, accompanied by his brother Richard Lee Jackson's caj�n percussion.

Although both are professional actors with numerous TV and film credits, they also share a serious rock band, Jonathan Jackson and Enation, which includes bassist Daniel Sweatt and will release a fourth full-length album, the sonically sweeping Radio Cinematic, on October 14.

A sneak preview of the album is available on Jackson's web site via "Everything Is Possible," a new single that features stacked crescendos of Jackson's vocals and his chiming guitar chords and riffs, and benefits from the hit-making co-production of Greg Archilla (Matchbox 20, Collective Soul) and Patrick Dillett (David Byrne, the National). The album was recorded in Enation's current hometown, at Nashville's the Tracking Room and Blue Grotto Sound studios.