Steven Rosen, pro music journalist for over 30 years.
Jimmy Scott straddles the super slinky line between rock and a blues place. He's in touch with the grand masters of the recent past - Paul Kossoff, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and the like - and at the same time, he brings to this classic sort of style a melodic bluesiness all his own. Tonally, Scott runs it all the way from vintage single-coiled, woody Stratocaster sounds to buzzard-killing, gnaw on your bones Les Paul screams from hell. Jimmy is a guitar freak in the best way, a lover of the guitar and everything those six strings have ever meant. He is a bona fide Electric Guitarist - capital E, capital G - and is someone who not only plays the blues, but is a modern-day, 21st century example of someone who is living it.
