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Jimmy & The Soulcats
3+ albums
bluesrockblues
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Jimmy Junkins and the Soulcats: Bio The Soulcat - El Gatto Although born in Maine, (the same state that has brought us serious guitar slinger Nick Curran formerly with The Fabulous Thunderbirds, the legendary Lenny Breau (Chet Atkins self proclaimed favorite guitarist),country music legend Dick Curless, country guitar "hot rod" Johnny Hiland, all the way to pop rocks' Howie Day, it seems that Jimmys' soul got "raised up" in Louisiana and Texas. Jimmy began playing guitar at the tender age of 7 on an old Sears Silvertone his dad bought for him. By his mid-teens, he was saturated in music from roots rock to bluegrass, soul, gospel, country, folk and blues. Approaching his twenties, the blues stuck like glue. Forming several rock bands in the late 70’s and early 80s’ and while honing his guitar skills on The Allman Brothers, Cream, Hendrix etc. Jimmys’ yearning for the blues took him deeper into Freddie King, Albert King, B.B., T-Bone Walker, Guitar Slim, Magic Sam and those recordings became his University of the Blues. With the birth of Jimmy and the Soulcats in the mid 80s’ he received his P.H.D. and was finally able to perform the music he truly loves. And perform he did, relentlessly, just about everywhere you can imagine!!!!! Maine to Memphis, Lubbock, TX to Canada. In 1993 when the status quo for New England blues bands was to release an album of traditional blues covers, The Soulcats released Things Have Gotta Change, an album of entirely original blues songs penned b
