The professional Work of Guitarist and Session Musician, Jimmy Capps Jimmy Capps has played and recorded with so many great artists that trying to list them all might easily fill this description area. For the last 51 years the sound of his guitar playing has graced the stage of the Grand Ole Opry. Since 1959 his playing can be heard on scores of hit country records classic by George Jones, Kenny Rogers, George Straits, Moe Bandy, Oak Ridge Boys, John Conlee, Joe Stampley, Billie Joe Spears, Johnny Paycheck, Janie Fricke and all of Ronnie Milsap's recordings through 1988. Born on 1939 in Fayetteville, North Carolina (NC) to Alice and Tommy Capps and raised in Benson, NC, Jimmy started listening to the Grand Ole Opry as a youngster. Jimmy was inspired by his champion fiddle-playing uncle, Lynn Cook and local guitarist Hayden Ivey. Capps started playing guitar at age twelve and begin performing on local radio shows at age twenty-one. Capps sang and played on WCKB-Dunn NC and in 1956 Jimmy worked in both radio and TV in Florence, South Carolina with a performer named Slim Mims. Jimmy moved on to Wilson to work with Slim Short and he played local clubs in Benson in a band called The Tar Heels. An audition in 1958 changed Jimmy's life forever when he became the guitar player for The Louvin Brothers. He took over that job when their current guitar player, Paul Yandell, was drafted into the US Army. During his first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry, Capps backed the Louvin ...
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