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John Jorgenson is an American musician, songwriter, and producer. He is best known for his work as a guitarist in the bands the Desert Rose Band and the Hellecasters, and for his solo career. He is also a multi-instrumentalist, playing guitar, mandolin, pedal steel guitar, bass, and keyboards.
Jorgenson was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and grew up in the nearby town of Stoughton. He began playing guitar at the age of nine, and by the time he was a teenager, he was playing professionally. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he studied classical guitar.
Jorgenson moved to Los Angeles in the early 1980s, where he joined the Desert Rose Band. He was a member of the band from 1985 to 1993, and during that time, the band had several hit singles on the country music charts.
In the early 1990s, Jorgenson formed the Hellecasters, a guitar trio that featured him, Will Ray, and Jerry Donahue. The band released several albums and toured extensively.
Jorgenson has also released several solo albums, including Ultraspontane (1995), Americana (1998), and Franco-American Swing (2003). He has also released several instructional DVDs and books on guitar playing.
Jorgenson has won several awards, including the Academy of Country Music's Guitarist of the Year award in 1992 and 1993. He was also named one of the "100 Greatest Acoustic Guitarists" by Acoustic Guitar magazine in 2005.
As of 2021, John Jorgenson's net worth is estimated to be around $2 million.
| Popular As |
John Richard Jorgenson |
| Occupation |
Musician |
| Age |
68 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Cancer |
| Born |
6 July, 1956 |
| Birthday |
6 July |
| Birthplace |
Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Nationality |
United States |
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John Jorgenson Height, Weight & Measurements
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John Jorgenson Net Worth
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John Jorgenson's net worth
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| Net Worth in 2023 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
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The most recent John Jorgenson signature guitar is the Fret-King FKV25JJ in Arcadian and Versailles Green. Designed in conjunction with Trev Wilkinson, the guitar is packed with a whole host of features including a chambered body, three self-intonating brass saddles, a matched, calibrated set of Wilkinson WVT pickups and two auxiliary ‘ghost’ coils which provide both hum-cancelling and classic single coil tones at the turn of a dial, thanks to the unique ‘Vari-coil’ control. John's Fret-King signature model will be joined by the FKV25JCAR in Candy Apple Red in 2019. 2019 will also see both Fret-King Jorgenson models shift from chambered to solid body construction.
The Fender John Jorgenson Signature Custom Korina Telecaster was made at the Fender Custom Shop in 1998, sporting a solid Korina body, a maple neck with pearloid dot inlays and a 25.5" scale length, African rosewood or an ebony on black finish fretboard with 22 Dunlop 6130 frets. Other features included dual side-by-side Telecaster humbucking pickups, a modified vintage style Tele bridge, a special custom five-way pickup switching featuring five different combinations (each in humbucking mode), 1.688" width at the nut and Sperzel Trimlok locking tuners.
G&L Guitars made a very few signature John Jorgenson ASAT guitars in Silver Sparkle with Silver Sparkle Pickguard, rosewood fretboard and Black ASAT Pickups in 1995. Fender made signature guitar models for Jorgensen in 1997 and 1998. The Fender Limited Edition John Jorgenson Hellecaster was made in Japan in 1997. It features a black sparkle-finished maple body, vintage-tinted, high-gloss maple neck with reversed large-style Strat headstock, rosewood fretboard with gold sparkle dot inlays, 22 jumbo frets and Schaller locking tuners. Refinements included three Seymour Duncan custom-voiced, split-coil, hum-cancelling pickups which allow players to get controlled feedback in distortion mode and a custom-wired, five-way pickup selector switch with an additional push/pull control allowing seven tone variations. Other touches included a custom two-pivot-point tremolo, a Wilkinson "Wilkaloid" self-lubricating nut, gold sparkle pickguard and gold hardware.
In 1994 he was invited to join Elton John's band for an 18-month tour. He remained with the band for the next six years, performing both live and in the studio, occasionally on saxophone. In 2002 he played bass guitar in the All-star Bluegrass Celebration in Nashville. Two years later he portrayed jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt in the film Head in the Clouds.
In 1993 Jorgenson formed the guitar trio the Hellecasters with Will Ray and guitarist Jerry Donahue of Fairport Convention. Intended as a temporary collaboration, the Hellecasters went on to release several albums during the 1990s. Their debut, Return of the Hellecasters (1993) won both "Album of the Year" and "Country Album of the Year" from Guitar Player magazine.
Jorgenson attended high school in Redlands, California, graduating in May 1974. He eventually attended the University of Redlands, majoring in woodwind performance. One of his early bands in this period was named Rocking Pneumonia, c. 1971.
John Richard Jorgenson (born July 6, 1956) is an American musician. Although best known for his guitar work with bands such as the Desert Rose Band and The Hellecasters, he is also proficient on the mandolin, mandocello, Dobro, pedal steel guitar, piano, upright bass, clarinet, bassoon, and saxophone. While a member of the Desert Rose Band, he won the Academy of Country Music's "Guitarist of the Year" award three consecutive years.
He was born in 1956 in Madison, Wisconsin, into a musical family. His mother was a piano teacher and his father an orchestra conductor and college music professor. Jorgenson has played professionally since the age of fourteen, and had been playing both the piano and clarinet since age eight. When Jorgenson was one, he and his family moved to Redlands, California.
