Guitarist Jerry Donahue with Roots Music band Tremoloco feat. Cougar Estrada (Los Lobos) on drums
“The guitarist’s guitarist” and “Bend Master of the Telecaster.” Those are the monikers bestowed upon Jerry Donahue by those fortunate enough to have witnessed first-hand his truly amazing and almost freakish electric guitar technique, both as a soloist and as one third of that hellish troika de-twang, The Hellecasters.
A perennial Guitar Player magazine Reader’s Poll winner, Jerry Donahue has performed and recorded with some of the biggest names in popular music. From his early days in such bands as Fotheringay and Fairport Convention, to notable performances and/or recordings with Robert Plant, George Harrison, Joan Armatrading, Elton John, Roy Orbison,
The Proclaimers, Gerry Rafferty, Nancy Griffith, The Yardbirds, Johnny Hallyday, Cliff Richard, Chris Rea, Warren Zevon, Bonnie Raitt, Hank Marvin, and The Hellecasters,
Jerry epitomizes the consummate “guitarist’s guitarist.”