Stacy Mitchart

Stacy Mitchhart’s musical journey began in his native Cincinnati, Ohio,  in a home where jazz guitar masters like Wes Montgomery and Johnny Smith  were played on the stereo. Therefore it was natural that he gravitated  to the six-string. As a child he saw the outrageous Little Richard on a  TV show and was captivated by his showmanship. Little Richard looked and  acted differently than anybody he had ever been exposed to. Today,  Mitchhart has created his own brand of showmanship that brings audiences  back again and again.     

   “I heard Springsteen,  Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, but that stuff never moved me,” he recounts.  “When I saw Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland and B.B. King, I knew what I wanted to  do. Since then, my playing’s just gotten more focused and aggressive  with time.”  Another serious inspiration was Cincinnati guitarist and  singer Frank Hedges, a musical preacher whose sons were also in…