Jimmy Wolf (Turtle Clan-Mohawk) is a Delta style electric baritone guitarist who plays a real down-and-dirty kind of blues, "a punk loud" and raunchy blues.A two-time nominee for "Best Blues Artist" at the Native American Music Awards, 1999-2000, he has shared the stage with some of the world's best blues and R&B artists, including Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Koko Taylor, Albert King, Millie Jackson, and Little Johnny Taylor.
Mr. Wolf was a featured performer in Washington, D.C. for the opening of the Smithsonian's new National Museum of the American Indian in 2004. Jimmy also opened for Pappy Johns Hand (from our neighbors north of the border) at Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian's "Downtown Sounds" concert series.
He has appeared at B.B. King's Blues Club in Memphis at the Bluestock 1998 Festival; Rochester International Jazz Festival in Rochester, N.Y; at Woodstock 1999; at Tribeca Blues in N.Y.C; and the Eagles Nest Blues Festival in Irving, New York. and self-produced five albums.
Jimmy often plays accompanied by a drummer, another bassist or guitarist in a trio. High-energy blues comes out in the music he plays on stage. He says, his first real big influence was Hound Dog Taylor. Guitar Slim, Joe Hill Louis, Sam Cooke, Magic Sam, Johnnie Taylor, Jimmy Dawkins, Bill Doggett, and Larry Davis all played a big part in Jimmy finding his own very specialized styles of blues.
DISCOGRAPHY
RAW BLUES - Red Reverend Records -1999
JIMMY WOLF - Red Reverend Records - 2000
MOHAWK STOMP - Red Reverend Records - 2002
GRITS AND SOUL - Red Reverend Records - 2004
SELF- DESTRUCTION LIVE - Red Reverend Records - 2004
