Emerging from the punk scene in Southern California during the 1980s, Jimmy and the Mustangs played their first live show opening for The Go-Go's.
At the time, the band’s "root’s music" was fueled by fury-driven, gut-wrenching guitars, not unlike their punk contenders of that era.
In a 1982 Los Angeles Times review of their sold-out Roxy show "filled with quiff-headed rocking cats and their petticoated kittens", the group was described as "not just a band.
[1] Not long after being hired by Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin fame to perform at his own private party, the band was sought out by Bruce Springsteen, who joined them onstage.
Since relocating to Austin Texas, Jimmy has recorded a self-titled CD and has put together a new Mustangs line-up.