"I hope we can realize that we’re all people and there’s just not that much difference in the grand scheme of things. My fear is that we’re too stupid and greedy as a species to do so!!!"

Jim Aaron: Sounds of North Carolina …

"I wish that discs and vinyl records were still as important as they used to be. When I was young a vinyl record album was a beautiful physical object that you could hold. Something has been lost in the change I think."

Jim Fitting: American Music Breaths…

"If I could change anything it would be reducing the onslaught of overproduced cookycutter meaningless garbage on the radio."

FARM: Going Up The Country Blues

Farm was a late '60s band from…

"I miss the free form music and colorful lyrics of the old Delta and other styles of roots Blues."

Jim “Poppy” Boyd: The Generation Bridge

Jim Boyd was born in 1942,…

"I think that in the modern urban digital world that we need more than ever to remember our human qualities. We need to laugh. We need to cry. We need direct contact with each other."

Jim Rooney: A Musical Odyssey in Roots…

"One of the great things for me which I have learned over the years is that Blues can be a common language to unite people from different cultural backgrounds and allow then to communicate musically."

Jim Quinlan: The Blues Ulysses …

"The Blues is the way I express myself  by the way I bend a note and make it cry, it’s the way I’m feeling what the song is meaning to me or saying."

Jim Weider: Roots Rockin-caster

Jim Weider, a master…

"I would make Blues a bigger part of the radio landscape on commercial radio. Not necessarily Blues Radio but more Blues and Blues related music (Blues-Rock) on the radio to entice listeners to listen and support this kind of music."

Jim McGrath: The Blues…

"I tend to think the world is becoming a better place. Whatever I miss from the old days is far over shadowed by the progress that’s being made now."

Jim Pugh: Never Give Up The Analog Sound…

"Mississippi is the birthplace of America's music. That music is known the world over."

Dr. Jim Brewer:

Greetings from Mississippi…

"I think that Blues addresses issues that are common to people in general. Most everybody’s suffered heartache and loss and other themes that are common to the blues."

Jim Pharis: The Blues Tales of Life…

"Music has the amazing power to unite people. Why not use that power to accomplish something good?" 

Jim Gustin: The Truth of Blues

Jim Gustin is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and performer from Santa…

"The blues were created by people who’s entire lives were spent in one extreme situation after another, immeasurable pain and hardship."

Jim Doody: Colors Blues Dimensions

Jim Doody is a…

"Music was all that was important before I began writing. Was what I did...and that was okay. This was years between beats and hippys...we were just college kids getting high and listening to jazz and blues and hillbilly stuff."

Jim McCrary:…

"Blues is the Rosetta Stone of music - a key to understanding."

Jim Colegrove: Poetic Notes & Cool Groove

Jim Colegrove has had a long and distinguished career in American music. He was born in Springfield, Ohio and began…

"Life is always interesting and always changing. It’s all good. As long as you’re alive anything can happen."

Big Jim Themelis: Smokin' Blues Soul

Big Jim is…

"My father gave me one pice of advice that would serve everyone well, “Don’t be an asshole”. It’s a good mantra."

A.J. Croce: Seedling organic music…

"The music business hasn’t changed much.  Manager’s still look for artists for a free ride."

Jim Armstrong: Blues straight from the heart

Armstrong's musical career started while he…