John Lee Zeigler of Kathleen, Georgia plays the guitar left-handed, with the strings upside down, striking the bass strings with his index finger and the treble strings with his thumb. John is the most unique and pure Georgia blues artists performing today. He appeared at Blues Estafette in Holland in 1996.

His mother raised eighteen children in Peach County, Georgia. Zeigler says, “what little bit I went to school… and I had to walk six miles. But I quit, I had to quit and go to work… I went to work when I was nine. Started on that farm. Plowin’ that mule out there… There was plenty older peoples out singin’ behind the mules. They were singin’ church songs, they were singin’ blues.”