![]() ![]() ![]() Jody's Grandfather in Buffalo Valley Oklahoma in That sealed the deal as it where, he took off into the back woods of old weird America and never looked back. ![]() After many years of playing in garage rock bands, he happened upon the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music and the recordings of Robert Johnson. He took to it like a fish devouring all he could learn from the family record collection. After secretly playing it for a while, he asked his father to teach him some old folk tunes that he had played in his early years and some lap slide licks. His first guitar was his father's steel guitar that had languished for many years up in the attic until he found it. Jody grew up in the 70's and 80's working on the families Northern California farm, building barns, riding horses, drawing, learning music from old blues, folk, Rock and Soul records. JC's grandfather left town and made his way over to California and then up to the bay area for work in the ship yards of Port Chicago. He and his brothers had been running whiskey in those hills one to many times and had been effectively asked to leave the state by the law. His grandfather, who also played guitar when he was young, had come from the remote rural Buffalo Valley hills of Oklahoma 20 years earlier with his family in tow. His father started him off with a couple Willie Nelson songs and plenty of AM country radio. Jody Carroll grew up hearing whispers of old American music on the radio or from his fathers guitar. His family hails from the hills of Buffalo Valley Oklahoma via Arkansas on his fathers side and Amarillo Texas on his mothers side. It's a vast water filled area where the Antioch River, the Old River, The San Joaquin River and the Sacramento River all meet up to pour into the San Francisco Bay. Jody Carroll McMurrian was born on Apin an area called the San Joaquin Delta of California. He appeared to great critical response at Merlefest 2018 & 21 JC Has toured with or shared the stage with legends such as Buddy Guy, Honey Boy Edwards, Louisiana Red, R.L Burnside, Johnny Winter, John Mayhall, George Thorogood, Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeski, Leo Bud Welch, Robert Cray, Eddie Kirkland, Robyn Trower, John McEuen, Ural Thomas, Charlie Musslewhite, Canned Heat, Robert Earl Keen, Sonny Landreth, Shameka Copeland, Paul Geramia, Sonny Landreth, Roy Bookbinder and even members of Metallica once back in 1987 (strange story). He is a Finger style/slide guitar master and amazingly soulful singer blending flavors of old Blues, Folk, Mountain music, Jazz and Rock all together into a true power packed gumbo. Jody Carroll is a blues & Roots performer and songwriter who effortlessly creates bold interpretations of old Blues and American Folk music, his own songs, stories and improvisational musical journeys. ![]()
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