James William McCarty (born June 1, 1945) is an American blues rock guitarist from Detroit, Michigan.

He covered "69 Freedom Special", an instrumental tune co-written by McCarty and recorded while in the Buddy Miles Express.

In February 2006, Les Paul won a Grammy for his cover of the song, thus propelling McCarty into another award-winning arena as songwriter.

A high-energy band, they play a variety of Detroit rock and roll from Iggy Pop, The Rockets, Mitch Ryder, Alice Cooper, Bob Seger and more to great critical acclaim.

This line up included singer Jimmy Kunes, bassist Pete Bremy from Vanilla Fudge, and Randy Pratt on harmonica.