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Joe Bosso

“I started playing some of Steve Cropper's riffs to him and told him how much Soul Man influenced one of our songs. He giggled and was very tickled by that”: Jimmy James on taking Parlor Greens’ funky sound “to the cosmos”

Jimmy James rips a solo on a Fender Stratocaster.

“I like to plug straight into the amp,” says Parlor Greens guitarist Jimmy James. “When I first started playing, I didn’t have effects, so I got used to hearing my guitar right into the amp. It makes my ears feel happy. It’s like I can make the music flow from my soul into my fingers.”

James’ clean, unadulterated tones, along with his astute, deceptively simple playing style – economical, soulful lead lines and tight, drop-dead funk rhythms – are indispensable elements of Parlor Greens.

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