Johnny Moeller

Johnny Moeller (born Jon Kelly Moeller, October 31, 1970) is an American guitarist, currently with The Fabulous Thunderbirds.
Born in Fort Worth, Texas, he had early exposure to music in the home, as his father played a little boogie-woogie piano and was constantly listening to music. He started playing guitar in his early teens. Over the years Moeller's main influences have been from Freddie King, Lightnin' Hopkins, Earl King and Grant Green to a wide variety of soul, funk and rock artists.
He began playing in Dallas and Fort Worth blues clubs whilst still in high school. During the summers Moeller and his year and a younger half-brother Jay Moeller, who was already playing drums (and was the drummer with The Fabulous Thunderbirds), traveled from their home in Denton down to Austin. The summer they were 16 and 15 they meet Clifford Antone of the Austin blues club Antone's. The first night Moeller played on Antone's stage was with Little Charlie & The Nightcats.
After Moeller finished high school in Denton he moved to Austin and into the music scene that is 6th Street (Austin). He worked many of the city's well known venues and often soaked in the music of the constant stream of blues artists which Antone brought. Amongst those that played Antone's were Earl King, Albert Collins, and James Cotton.
Years later the Austin Chronicle quoted Antone (who also helped launch Stevie Ray Vaughan) as saying: "Johnny, nobody can burn like that kid. He's got the heart like Stevie had, about the only one I've seen with that kind of heart. Johnny's so quiet and bashful, just a sweet kid and sometimes those kids get overlooked."
By the time Moeller had joined The Fabulous Thunderbirds in mid-2007 he had recorded, played regularly with, or toured North America, Europe and Scandinavia with Darrell Nulisch, Lou Ann Barton, Mike Barfield, Doyle Bramhall II, Gary Primich, and Guy Forsyth.
Moeller was purportedly a childhood friend after which one of the characters in Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head cartoon is modeled. The other character is modeled after Paul Size.

• Johnny Moeller, along with friend Paul Size, later of the Red Devils Blues Band, collaborated on a Dallas Blues Society Records release - Return of the Funky Worm (1996).
• Along with Paul Size, worked with Mick Jagger on his still-unreleased album of traditional blues.
• Johnny's Blues Aggregation, Dallas Blues Society Records, (2001)
• Bloogaloo, Severn Records. (2010)