Jimmie Thackery
One of the foremost guitarists in the country

Jimmy Thackery has been recognized by Downbeat and Guitar magazine as one of the foremost guitarists in the country. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1953, Jimmy was raised in Washington, D.C. His mother, a music major in college, started him on piano lessons, but Thackery was more attracted to guitar, playing with several bands in Massachusetts after high school. In high school he played in a band with Bonnie Raitt's brother David, who turned him on to Buddy Guy.

A pivotal moment for the 17 year old Thackery was seeing Buddy perform at a small D.C. church, but the "moment that changed my life," as Thackery recalls it, occurred quite by accident one night when he wandered into a Jimi Hendrix show in D.C. and heard Hendrix let loose in his first gig after getting kicked off the Monkees tour. Besides Buddy Guy and Jimi Hendrix, Thackery cites Otis Rush and later (after he had played with them) Muddy Waters, James Cotton, and Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson as the strongest influences on his music.

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