Jimmy Smith

Jimmy Smith, country-rock bassist from Austin, TX, isn’t the same dude who produced all the cool jazz organ information. A few of his musical tasks have begun finding a great deal of interest, nevertheless: the alt-country globe can be thought to partly revolve around Smith’s primary music group, the Gourds. Furthermore, the last mentioned combo reached the ears of a number of listeners beyond the Austin music picture through collaborations in 1998 and 2001 using the past due great Doug Sahm. Smith’s bass function holds firm, continuous, and engagingly propulsive on great monitors from such Sahm-meets-Gourds affairs as “Dylan Arrive Recently” and “Get yourself a Lifestyle,” both dripping with sarcasm, or the terrifying “Ultimately.” Furthermore to bass, this musician also sings and it is capable of tossing down on electric guitar and percussion if you need to. The Gourds had been produced in the past due ’90s; the group’s discography provides handed down the half-dozen tag.