For Immediate Release   
      
   Guitarist Jimmy McIntosh Releases New Album Featuring Rolling Stones' Ronnie   
   Wood!   
      
   Featuring guest appearances by guitar legends Ronnie Wood, John Scofield and   
   Mike Stern!   
      
   Las Vegas, NV - As a follow up to 2006's  'Orleans to London', guitarist Jimmy   
   McIntosh once again finds himself in illustrious company on his new album   
   'Jimmy McIntosh and...' This collection of funk, rock, jazz and blues   
   originals showcases McIntosh's    
   considerable six-string prowess and features the Michigan native exchanging   
   incendiary licks with his personal guitar heroes John Scofield , Mike Stern   
   and the Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood. The solid backbeats are supported by Toss   
   Panos (drummer of    
   choice for guitarists Robben Ford and Mike Landau), bassists Dan Lutz, John   
   Humphrey and Keith Hubacher and New Orleans keyboardist Ivan Neville (of The   
   Neville Brothers, Keith Richards' X-Pensive Winos and Dumpstaphunk). This   
   stellar outing was    
   definitely a labor of love for McIntosh.   
      
   For 'Jimmy McIntosh and...', McIntosh recruited Scofield and Stern from his   
   home base, Las Vegas. Says Jimmy, "I got to know John and Mike about 12 years   
   ago when there was a Blue Note jazz club in Las Vegas and became good friends   
   with both of them. The    
   Vegas Blue Note was short-lived, but I was there almost every night for the   
   duration of their gigs. I've jammed with Mike several times and asked him, 'If   
   I make another record, will you play on it?' And Mike said 'sure'! Toss Panos,   
   John Humphrey and I    
   went into Toss's North Hollywood studio with Mike when he was in Los Angeles   
   playing with his band at Catalina's. Mike's playing on this album is just   
   brilliant. Then John happened to come through town with Phil Lesh & Friends   
   just a few months ago. I    
   had mentioned to him that I was doing this album and he said, 'Hey, if you   
   still have room on your CD, I'd love to play on it.' So that came to fruition   
   as well. It was a dream come true for me to create this CD with three major   
   heroes of mine and who    
   have also become very good friends over the years."   
      
   McIntosh's friendship with Ronnie Wood goes back to his solo debut, 'Orleans   
   to London'. Jimmy recalls, "I first met Ronnie backstage at a Stones show in   
   Las Vegas. Ronnie and Keith Richards were hanging out with Bobby Womack in the   
   'Tuning Room' were    
   they Jam to warm up before the show. Art Neville did me a huge favor and   
   called Jane Rose for me to meet Keith and Ronnie. It was a wedding gift as I   
   got married a week before (This was April 1999). Anyway a few years later I   
   recorded my first CD '   
   Orleans To London' and Art Neville, Ivan Neville, Cyril Neville and Mean   
   Willie Green (Neville Bros drummer) played on it. As I was near the end of the   
   project in October 2004 I got in touch with Ronnie Wood through his stepson   
   (Jamie Wood) who was his    
   manager at the time and told him about my project. Three weeks later my wife   
   and I flew to London and went to Ronnie's house in Richmond were he played on   
   5 tracks (first takes). Ronnie said, 'I told Jeff Beck about your project and   
   he might come by to    
   play' - I was in shock! About 2 hours later Jeff showed up and ended up   
   playing on 3 tracks. Ronnie said as Jeff was recording, 'You can't believe how   
   lucky you are, he won't play on anything!' I'm not sure what Ronnie told him   
   about the Neville's being    
   on the record but it was amazing having both those guys on the record. Jeff is   
   credited as 'Hot Rod' on 'Orleans To London' because his manager wouldn't let   
   me use his name.   
      
   "Ronnie and I hit it off fantastically and stayed in touch so when I started a   
   second record I was hoping he would play on it. I covered a tune from Ronnie's   
   latest album called 'I Gotta See'. Ronnie plays a great solo and outro slide   
   solo on the song.    
   Ronnie and I also played two improvised Jams that open and close the album   
   like bookends. The Jams are just the two of us live in the studio without the   
   band. The Rolling Stones have been my favorite band since I was a kid so   
   getting to work and play    
   with Ronnie is literally a dream come true. Ronnie is truly a great artist.   
   It's amazing that all of the iconic records Ronnie has played on were mostly   
   first takes on his part. He is really underrated as a musician. I wrote six   
   originals for 'Jimmy    
   McIntosh and...' Ronnie wrote one of the Jams 'Fast Blues' and we share credit   
   on the opener 'Slow Blues'. I covered a few tunes... 'I Gotta See' by Ronnie   
   Wood, 'Demon' by Keith Richards, '32 20 Blues' by Robert Johnson and   
   'Sophisticated Lady' by Duke    
   Ellington. Duke Ellington was a friend of my family when I was a little kid   
   and greatly encouraged my interest in music. When I played French Horn in the   
   Junior High School band I told my mom I was going to change something in the   
   music. She asked Mr    
   Ellington if I should do that and he said, 'I think you have a musician there!'   
      
   "The record was recorded at Toss Panos studio in North Hollywood. Toss is a   
   great drummer I first heard with Michael Landau. John Humphrey (Scott   
   Henderson Trio) is on bass on most of the record. Keith Hubacher is on bass on   
   two tracks and Ivan Neville    
   plays organ and Piano. Albert Wing who played with Frank Zappa among others   
   plays Tenor Sax on 'I Gotta See' and 'Demon', a Keith Richards cover. Ronnie   
   and Ivan are on both of my records which I'm very proud of. It connects the   
   two projects."   
      
      
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