Jimmy Carpenter Band

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.

About Just Got Started:
“This album is very different than the previous five; more groovy and soulful, but not
overdone. The musicianship really brings it home, and I could feel the love as we recorded it.
I'm playing these songs live, and from the reaction we're getting, I think the people dig it! I am
so grateful for Kid Andersen’s steady hand and unparalleled guitar work, Jerry Jemmott,
Derrick D'Mar Martin, Jim Pugh, Bobby Vega, and Lisa Andersen for taking really good care
of me and my songs... And of course, Mike Zito and everyone at Gulf Coast for this
opportunity. I Just Got Started, and I still got a long way to go!” Jimmy C