Album review: Jimmy Thackery, Guitar (2003)

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT, MARCH 20, 2003 By Steve Newton Last year American blues-rock guitar ace Jimmy Thackery released a wonderfully overdue tribute to relatively unknown music great Eddie Hinton. Now he tips the hat to a few other six-string stalwarts with Guitar, collecting nine instrumental tracks from his own Blind Pig back … Continue reading Album review: Jimmy Thackery, Guitar (2003)

Hotshots and hillbillies collide on Jimmy Thackery’s Healin’ Ground

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON JUNE 2, 2005 By Steve Newton When Jimmy Thackery was a kid, his father took him and his brother to see the 1964 Peter Sellers comedy A Shot in the Dark. They all loved it; the boys would repeat Inspector Clouseau's lines endlessly at home, bent over in hysterics in front of … Continue reading Hotshots and hillbillies collide on Jimmy Thackery’s Healin’ Ground