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Jessica Kaczmarek

Jessica started her professional music career at the age of 17, playing in bands & performing in recording studios as a teenager. She is a multi instrumentalist & singer who's main instrument is guitar, but also plays piano, bass, ukulele, and mandolin. Her earliest guitar influence was Jimi Hendrix- she had been taking piano lessons at the time, when she saw Hendrix on television and it completely changed her world. She immediately stopped piano lessons and started playing guitar, digging deep into the blues of Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Robert Johnson, and the British blues of John Mayall and Eric Clapton. Later heroes were David Gilmour, Wes Montgomery, soul legend Steve Cropper, along with contemporary players such as Johnny Marr from The Smiths, and U2's The Edge. Chet Atkins & Link Wray came soon after as she delved more into the roots of early rock and roll.