Jimmy Carpenter

2024 has been an amazing year for Jimmy! He has just released Just Got Started, on Gulf Coast Records, his 3rd on GC and 6th overall, to rave reviews, debuting at #10 on Billboard Blues and #3 on Apple Blues. He is touring internationally in support of the new record. He has been nominated for many Blues Music Awards, and won the 2021 and 2022 BMA’s for Best Instrumentalist/Horn. And he is now a Grammy-Winning Composer, for a composition he contributed to the New Orleans Nightcrawlers’ winning album, Atmosphere.

Jimmy has toured internationally with Tinsley Ellis, Jimmy Thackery, Walter Wolfman Washington, Eric Lindell, and Mike Zito and the Wheel. 2019’s Soul Doctor, his first album on Gulf Coast Records, was extremely well-received worldwide, and in September
2022 he released his fifth solo album, The Louisiana Record, a collection of his favorite New Orleans songs, also on Gulf Coast. He has been a working musician for over 40 years, spent many years in New Orleans, and now resides in Las Vegas, where he is the Musical Director of one of the hottest blues festivals in the world, The Big Blues Bender.