Jim McCarty (guitarist)

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Jim McCarty is a well-known blues guitarist from Detroit, Michigan who has performed with Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels, the Buddy Miles Express, Cactus, the popular Detroit rock band The Rockets, and more recently, Mystery Train. He also recorded with Jimi Hendrix and Bob Seger. He has a classic heavy blues-rock style that has inspired fledgling guitar players for more than thirty years now. In 2006, he participated in a Cactus reunion, performing in New York City, Sweden, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. It coincided with the release of a new Cactus album, Cactus V. In an August 2006 interview on VH1 Classic, Ted Nugent remarked- "I'm the only guy in Rock'n'Roll that plays that hollow body jazz guitar and it's because in 1960 I saw Jimmy McCarty creating those big-fat-full chords like I do on Stranglehold; I learned that from Jimmy McCarty. Remember the name Jimmy McCarty. He is as important as Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry and Les Paul...A god on guitar." Jim lives near his friend and bandmate John Badanjek in a suburb of Detroit with his 2 black cats, "Lou" and "Dexter".