The reasons of his success

In the '70s, Jim met a multi-instrumentalist musician Alan Gerber with whom he traveled the blues roads, both in Canada and in the United States, the duo thus forged a reputation

which culminated with the participation at a Bob Dylan concert in Quebec. Then they were given the chance to appear in Dylan's film, Renaldo and Clara in 1978 with, among others,

Joan Baez, T-Bone Burnett, Ronnie Hawkins, Allen Ginsberg, Mick Ronson, Arlo Guthrie, Phil Ochs, etc. . While living in New York in 1982, Jim must do everything to survive and he becomes involved

in a dark story of drug trafficking. This is how he was arrested during a police operation, he spent two years in Riker Island prison. Released in 1984, he had to return to Quebec and soon

started a group with Joe Jammer, a guitarist from Chicago, with whom he literally blew up the stages wherever they performed. Jim Zeller has only released five albums, but he's mostly a bar hopping guy.

A pillar of Saint-Denis Street, in the Latin Quarter of Montreal, we have seen him a lot for 20 years, deploying his blues music machine on the stage of the Grand Café and the Bistro à JoJo. In 1993,

he was the subject of a documentary directed by Éric Michaud and Michael Hogan, Locomotive Blues of 29 minutes on one of his own music.