Jimmy Leslie

Addicted to music. That's my story. I'm musician and music journalist who spends most of life either playing guitar and singing, or sitting at the computer writing other peoples' stories.I live in San Francisco, and love to spend time in New Orleans cause that's da goods! My CD Surfin' the Swamp is a SF/NOLA hybrid with Pacific vibes and greasy grooves. Galactic's rhythm section of Stanton Moore and Robert Mercurio played drums and bass on the recordings. Thanks fellas. Garland Paul & Sam Price from the Honey Island Swamp Band played drums and bass on "She Belongs." That's a wild story on its own. You see, after Katrina, a bunch of NOLA musicians moved to SF. I hooked up the Honey Island Swamp Band through regular gigs at the Boom Boom Room, and I contributed to the CD. You can hear it at myspace.com/honeyislandswampband. Those boys are back in New Orleans now, God bless 'em.I'm call my little network of players in SF and NOLA the Jimmy Leslie Connection. In addition to Garland and Sam, it includes: Bassists Mark Calderon (Zigaboo Modeliste, Albino!), Peter the World Beater Canton, (the Ritual) and Jonathan Herrera (Bass Player Magazine), drummers Shani Johnson (London Street), and Chris DeJohn (Eric Lindell), keyboardists Jordan Feinstein (the Ritual), Joel Nelson (Bo Diddley), and guitarist Sean Leahy (Four Year Bender).I'm currently working on some wild new guitar approaches and fleshing out the next batch tunes with the working title "Bay to Bayou."In addition to my own project, I play gigs with Shana Morrison (Van's girl), LunaGroove (livetronica), and occasionally with the Honey Island Swamp Band when we're in the same city. I write regularly for Guitar Player and Bass Player.Through playing and writing, I've hooked up with tons of great musicians and music heads everywhere from Jazz Fest to Burning Man. I'm looking forward to connecting with more good folks who share the same passion for music and good livin'!I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)