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Texas singer/songwriter James McMurtry, known for his hard-edged character sketches, comes from a literary family; his father, novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry, gave James his first guitar at age seven, and his mother, an English professor, taught him how to play it
Although singer/songwriter James Michael has collaborated on material with hard rockers like Sammy Hagar, Mötley Crüe, and Meat Loaf, his own music is catchy pop/rock that’s perfectly at home on adult alternative radio
In Wisconsin, the most famous person named James Monroe Jones would be the fellow who “discovered” and named that states’ Jones IslandThe fellow of the same name who toiled as an assistant to the executive producer on an early-’90s effort by multi-instrumentalist Pierre Copeland appears to be totally unrelated
Best known as the remote frontman of the influential indie trio Dinosaur Jr, J Mascis was also an occasional producer and film composer Born December 10, 1965 in Amherst, Massachusetts, he first emerged as a member of the hardcore unit Deep Wound, founding Dinosaur in 1984
British guitarist James Powell performed and recorded with Mover beginning with the group’s formation in 1996 and concluding sometime following the dawn of the new millennium
James Ray first appeared on a 1986 Sisters of Mercy side project called The Sisterhood, and he formed James Ray & the Performance soon after, to record an album for the Sisters’ label Merciful
Following the demise of the seminal Australian Crawl, lead singer James Reyne continued to chart the musical path he initiated in the last stages of his former band’s career
Engineering and mixing credits for James Reynolds, sometimes known endearingly as Jimmy or Jim, may indeed cover the work of more than one person with the same name, at times associated with the Custom Recording Studio of Minneapolis
Not to be confused with others in the music business named James Reynolds, including gurus of both new age and house music, the owner of the indie rock Safehouse label has brought out excellent recordings such as Robert McCreedy’s Streamline, Ditch Diggin’ by Southern Culture on the Skids, and the restrained Binge & Purge by the Lunachicks
With the dissolution of Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine in 1997 and subsequent aborted attempts for a quick follow-up maneuver, James Morrison resurfaced in 2001 with two different solo projects, Jim’s Super Stereoworld and James Robert Morrison