Jimmy Karstein

Drummer and percussionist, born August 22, 1943

Karstein was a member of the generation of Tulsa musicians who moved to Los Angeles in the early ‘60s to play sessions and thereby helped spread the Tulsa sound to the whole world, influencing rock & roll, country, alt-country, and americana in the process. He played with Leon Russell, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Buffalo Springfield, Delaney & Bonnie, J J Cale, Joe Cocker, and Eric Clapton, and in later years helped move the sound forward with red dirt music pioneers the Red Dirt Rangers.

Jimmy Karstein died at his Tulsa home on Sunday, 27th March 2022, after a long illness.