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Jimmy Haggard is a blues musician (guitarist, singer and songwriter). Mainly, Jimmy plays electric blues, influenced by rock and funk. He also plays acoustic blues and roots music (folk and country styles). He has released two albums and one single: [1] Hot Summer Day (album 2010) [2] Live At The Aviator (album 2011) (3) Two Steps (single 2012). Two songs from his first album (Hot Summer Day) reached #7 (Hot Summer Day) and #8 (Its Not Personal) on the iTunes Blues Charts in Finland. On the ReverbNation (www.reverbnation.com) Blues Charts, Jimmy Haggard is regularly in the top 40 Blues Artists in the World, top 30 Blues Artists in the United States and number 1 in the Raleigh/Durham metropolitan area of North Carolina.

Jimmy Haggard was born on July 16, 1954 in a Silverton Oregon, a small town in the Willamette Valley. During his youth, his early inspiration for music came from listening to his father play Hawaiian slack key guitar and from piano lessons. As a teenager, his mother bought him his first guitar, an acoustic folk guitar. With guitar in hand, he took guitar lessons from a regular PBS television show for learning to play folk guitar. Fast forward through his 20's, 30's and 40's when Jimmy travelled around the United States' West Coast and Midwest and lived in Los Angeles California for 20 years. During that time, he worked as a dishwasher, cook, chef, baker, construction laborer, repairman, cowboy, farm hand, retail store clerk, ranch manager, accountant, IT manager, business software product manager and marketing manager. Even though Jimmy earned his living by means other than music, he always played pursued his love of music, playing in honky tonks, dive bars, juke joints, roadhouses, grange halls, community halls and festivals along the way. Jimmy has played in a few bands during his travels: Dirt Road, Sweet Rat, Power, Dreamers, Mister B, Rush Street and Hot Bones, and also performs as a solo acoustic musician.

Today, his main music project is the Jimmy Haggard Band; a blues band. In 2013, Jimmy opened Haggard Studios in Raleigh NC. Haggard Studios is a rehearsal and recording studio, providing quality and affordable studios and services.