"...This storyteller (road songs, portraits, social criticisms) writes easily and is very convincing in his art, which means there is absolutely no need to use the fast-forward button."
--BART EBISCH, HOLLAND (WWW.ALTCOUNTRY.NL)
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"I heard this album and got a copy of it in a hostel in Amsterdam, Nederlands from the sweet sweet front lady. I hear that Jim had been there once or so. I was impressed with the music then and I am still impressed today. His songs are original yet manage to exude a refreshingly reminiscent flavor of traveling music. It is folk music. that's it. There's no question about it. I feel as if I am breathing the clean air of Montana or on an open rail cart somewhere in europe when I hear this...." -- MICHAEL HURLEY (CDbaby.com review)
"Rolling Up the Rhine", Live at the Green Muse - Austin, TX
Shot and edited by Phil and Sherry Fagan
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Influences
i'm interested in context. Bill Hicks, Jimi Hendrix, etc., etc....George Orwell, Albert Einstien....
"Once and a while you find a cd on your desk which had been independently released. Usually hand-woven artists who'd have done better keeping their musical aspirations in their own home circle, but sometimes it's a nugget. Jim Keaveny belongs in this last category. A small pearl in the American folk tradition of Guthrie and Dylan and when Keaveny uses some instrumentation, Steve Earle is only just around the corner."
--CHRIS KIJNE, HOLLAND
"...combines the wit of Townes, the urgency of Guthrie and the ability to paint images in the listeners mind of Dylan into a package that is uniquely his own. It blazes a path for many new folk singers to follow..." --REB LANDERS (The Alternate Root)
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"A 2005 new folk finalist, Jim Keaveny is as DIY as folk music gets. From his hand written bio to a summer spent busking in Europe, Jim lives close to the ground and his third record (A Boot Stomping) only reinforces his stance..." -- JIM CALIGIURI, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
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... I was born and raised in Bismarck, North Dakota. Was trained in
classical piano from 2nd to 8th grad. My instructor, Mrs. Buck, chose
me from all her students to represent her at the University of Mary
outside of town. I played a piece called "Chimes".
Always hated school and never did well at it. One teacher of mine
suggested seatbelting me to my desk chair. I was diagnosed with a.d.d.
by the 8th grade. To me the entire thing was and still is a joke. Grades were at their worst by then and my mother insisted I either quit sports or piano. I
quit piano to escape the nun-like strictness of Mrs. Buck. Started in a rock
band my junior year as bass player.
It was then I started the guitar and began writing songs.
Instead of collage, I hitchhiked and rode freight trains around the
country for about a year-and-a-half. These were the best times of my
life... I met some of my best friends and felt that i was finding
myself with the like-minds, the guitar, the traveling, and the poetry.
Played in a band in Eugene, Oregon a couple years. Worked as a
fisherman, a dishwasher, a cook, a treeplanter, a firefighter, a
janitor, a graveyard maintenance man, a brewer, in several factories,
and later (what I do now) as a carpenter.
I've lived solely by busking (performing on the streets) for about two years
of my life, the second round in Europe, mostly Spain.
Arrived in Austin early '96. Played with a few different bands
including the "Fence Cutters". In 1998 I began playing solo and then released my first of four records. "These Old Things" (2000), " The Great Historical Bum"(2002), " A Boot Stomping"(2005), and "Music Man" (2009) - which has just been released this month - are the titles.
I was a "New Folk Finalist" in 2005 at the Kerrville Folk Festival.
I play in the central and the western Texas area as well as tour about 6 months of
the year in both the states and E.U.
I consider myself a folk/country singer. I play alotta harmonica.
Hey Jimmy Jim Jim, I hear you're coming home for Thanksgiving! If you want some work I have a sub-floor to replace and a bathroom to frame?! Hope to see you and Anna soon. Safe travels.
My good fortune was to come across Anna Banana and her magic publicity posters, who in turn led me to your work....as a song writer for many a year, I marvel at the the wonderful and inspiring song writers out there..................................foregive me, I'm marveling at the present inspiration before me!!!!!...Mike
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