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James McGillivray Biography, Photos, Pictures

The tradition of Scottish bagpiping continues to be expanded by the playing of Kitchener, Ontario-born James McGillivray The recipient of gold medals from Oban and Inverness, Scotland, McGillivray has won five North American championships with his expressive playing

James O'Gwynn Biography, Photos, Pictures

”The Smilin’ Irishman of Country Music,” James O’Gwynn was briefly popular between the late ’50s and the early ’60s He was born a Mississippi farmboy and raised near Hattiesburg, the son of a mechanic and a talented musician

James Raynard Biography, Photos, Pictures

Like many a budding singer/songwriter, English folksinger James Raynard came to the genre through the songs of Bob Dylan The self-taught guitarist studied folklore at Sheffield University and took up the fiddle, eventually developing a relationship with British folk legend Martin Carthy

Kentuckian James Reams proves that you can take the boy out of bluegrass country, but you can’t take the bluegrass out of the boy Even after he’d moved north to Brooklyn, he continued to pursue his love of traditional bluegrass and old-time music

James Reynolds Biography, Photos, Pictures

James Reynolds is a Western painter whose subjects include landscapes as well as cowboy action He garnered album cover artwork credit on a compilation entitled Texas Country and should not be confused with many other performers with this name

The discography of the James Reynolds who performed and recorded with the Electric Bonsai Band could be compared, speaking in terms of the percussion instrument family, with a cowbell rather than a timpani — and not the giant cowbell drummer Tony Oxley uses to try to drown out Cecil Taylor, either

Credited as both James Smith and Jimmy Smith, this ’50s country and rockabilly sideman can be easily picked out from the coterie of other guitarists with this same name by utilizing his impressive nickname, “The Old Ridgerunner

The crowd who thinks country & western is simply a pile of garbage may have found their anti-hero in this artist, not to be confused with an assortment of performers with the same name who could hardly be absorbed into even the most massive landfill

James Talley Biography, Photos, Pictures

James Talley is a man of many roles — singer-songwriter, guitarist, and recording artist He can sound like a rival to Stevie Ray Vaughan on numbers like “Bluesman,” or a genuinely soulful John Denver on numbers like “Alabama Summertime,” and has also crossed swords with Steve Goodman on “Everybody Loves a Lovesong” — and he’s written one romantic masterpiece, “Up from Georgia,” one of the most achingly beautiful love songs to come out of modern country music

Jameson Clark Biography, Photos, Pictures

Born in South Carolina, Jameson Clark started his musical career at an impressionable age With his mother playing piano at the town church, Clark often sang duets with his brother

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