James Gurley
Acting
December 22, 1939 β December 20, 2009Detroit, Michigan USA
James Martin Gurley (December 22, 1939 β December 20, 2009) was an American musician. He is best known as the principal lead guitarist of Big Brother and the Holding Company, a psychedelic/acid rock band from San Francisco which was fronted by singer Janis Joplin from 1966 to 1968.

