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Released: Apr 17, 2012

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Genre: Country / Folk Rock / Rock
Location Nashville, Un
Profile Views: 166651
Last Login: 4/28/2012
Member Since 8/17/2008
Website myspace.com/JimmyRobertsBand
Record Label Modena Cove Records
Type of Label Unsigned
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.. Hi All! Help me get more airplay for my song .."Two Lovers In Paradise" by clicking here, ..thanks a million!.. ..http://www.us1035.com/new2/artists/i/234801?psid=304806.. .. .... .. I come from the mid-west of Minneapolis, Minnesota originally where I had many adventures from the Twin Ports to the Twin Cities! Be sure to give a listen to my song "Minnesota" if you too are from Minnesota. It is about a lost love I once had there. It's my tribute to that great state and all the dear friends there and was the start of a fantastic music career! .... All vocals, instruments and songs on this page were performed and written by Jimmy Roberts (BMI), (C) Copyright 1973-2011. All Rights Reserved. World Rights Reserved. .... .... My songwriting career started in the early 1970's when the first song I ever wrote was called the "Way It Goes" after using the saying for so long in my road days. It was also the first song I ever got published from Denny and Pandora at Denny's Den in Nashville, TN, (you know, the folks who discovered Alison Krauss). It is a song about my life and will always be the last song in my list. I recently received a letter of congrats from BMI on the Alison Krauss cut of this song. .... I put up different songs every few weeks as a form of shopping some of my songs I have written and recorded. Why I am not much of a singer, But I do try my best at them. .... Jimmy's Email: ....Misc9999TS@gmail.com.... .... Jimmy's Current Band: ..Looking for gigs..... .... Jimmy is a man of many talents. He is a published songwriter who has written over 1500 songs and recorded and sing on more then 500 of them and also has written some very well known songs for many nationally known artist and also owns his own publishing company, Immortal Beloved Music Publishing (BMI) under his BMI real name, James Wagner. Jimmy even has his own recording studio with software using Pro Tracks and Adobe Audition 3 and his own record label, Modena Cove Records! What can I say, a great musician and songwriter. .. That's Jimmy! .... Singing and Playing all his life in and out of hundred's of studio's and on and off of thousands's of stages, Jimmy's musical resume reads like the whose who of the music industry. Jimmy traveled for many years on the road with the whose who of the music business and even got coined the nickname (Twinkie) from keeping boxes of Twinkies on the buses all the time cause of long trips between stops! Songwriting, Vocals and Pedal Steel Guitar, Lap Steel Guitar, Lead Guitar w/B-String Bender, Slide Lead Guitar, Pedal Dobro, Dobro, Banjo, Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Fiddle, Keyboards, Synthesizer. Jimmy is also a great producer in the studio and continues to do session work in his home with Pro Tools. Jimmy is one of a hand full of early pioneers of the B-String Bender from Minneapolis like Sherwin Linton (the origional) and Gerry Burttes, a one handed lead guitarist with amazing one handed skills. .... Twinkie (Jimmy's) Bio: When Jimmy was a young man of nine, his uncle Leonard Ice inspired him to learn the guitar and banjo and sing Country and Bluegrass songs. Shortly thereafter, Bluegrass became a big part of his life. Jimmy began traveling with a Banjo picker by the name of Kenneth Bailes in the deep south of the Blue Ridge Mountains all the way to Florida. .. In his mid-teens, he became interested in other forms of music, working with many bands in Blues, Jazz, and the Rock & Roll areas. Around his young 20's, he came back home to Country Music for good up in Minneapolis, Minnesota and then a decade later, he moved to Florida and finally back to Nashville (or NashVegas as some locals call it). .... Jimmy played and recorded with many groups and stars since, to name a few like Clay Walker, Hank III, Dale Henry and Nite Train, Sherwin Linton and The Cottonkings, Mel Tillis, Charley Pride, Marvin Rainwater, Marilyn Sellars, Merle Haggard, Clay Walker, Jimmy C. Newman, Tommy Cash, Tommy Overstreet, Nat Stuckey, Bobby Bare, Rex Allen Jr., Waylon Jennings, Tex Ritter, Tanya Tucker, LaCosta Tucker, Steve Bledsoe, Mel and Cookie Lockwood, Battlecreek Band, Dixie Highway Band, Lynn Dvorak Show, Marshall and Roberts, Lose and Natural, HiTime Band, Bitter Creek Canyon Band, Jimmy C. Newman, Tex Ritter, John Ritter, Red Sovine, David Allen Coe, Hank Williams Jr., Dolly Parton..... Including many bands Jimmy had himself over the years ... Phoenix, Tequila Sunrise, Blackjack, The Jimmy Roberts Trio, The Jimmy Roberts Show, Jimmy Angel and the Devils, Jimmy Rivers and Dixie, Southern Railroad Band. .... Jimmy's Guitar idols are Chet Atkins, James Burton, and Eric Clapton. .... Jimmy's songwriting idols are Harlan Howard, Jimmy Webb, Tony Arata, Gram Parsons, and my Uncle Leonard Ice. .... Jimmy's Pedal Steel Guitar idols are John Hughey, Norm Hamlett, Bud Isaacs, Ralph Mooney, Curley Chalker, David Hartley, Dave Knight, Paul Franklin, Tommy White, Lloyd Green, Sarah Jory, Barbara Mandrell, Herby Wallace, Russ Hicks, Jerry Byrd, Leon McCulliffe, Herb Remington, Speedy West, Shot Jackson, Hal Rugg, Tom Brumley, Doug Jernigan, Weldon Myrick, Jeff Newman, Jimmy Crawford, Tom Bradshaw, Julian Tharpe, Jimmy Day, Buddy Emmons, and Bud Isaacs. .... His Banjo idols are Earl Scruggs, Don Reno, Bela Fleck, Carl Jackson, and Bobby Thompson. .... His favorite male singers are David Ball, Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins, Vince Gill, Jimmy Buffet, George Strait, Alabama, Garth Brooks, and without a doubt, Sherwin Linton. .... Jimmy's favorite female singers are Patti Loveless, Dolly Parton, Reba McIntire, Allison Kraus, Carrie Underwood, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Martina McBride, Shania Twain, Tammy Wynette, Lorrie Morgan, Ann Murray, Tanya Tucker, Faith Hill, Pam Tillis, Barbara Mandrell, Becky Hobbs, Connie Smith and Gretchen Wilson. ..
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Hi All! Help me get more airplay for my song
"Two Lovers In Paradise" by clicking here,
thanks a million!
http://www.us1035.com/new2/artists/i/234801?psid=304806

I come from the mid-west of Minneapolis, Minnesota originally where I had many adventures from the Twin Ports to the Twin Cities! Be sure to give a listen to my song "Minnesota" if you too are from Minnesota. It is about a lost love I once had there. It's my tribute to that great state and all the dear friends there and was the start of a fantastic music career!

All vocals, instruments and songs on this page were performed and written by Jimmy Roberts (BMI), (C) Copyright 1973-2012. All Rights Reserved. World Rights Reserved.

My songwriting career started in the early 1970's when the first song I ever wrote was called the "Way It Goes" after using the saying for so long in my road days. It was also the first song I ever got published from Denny and Pandora at Denny's Den in Nashville, TN, (you know, the folks who discovered Alison Krauss). It is a song about my life and will always be the last song in my list. I recently received a letter of congrats from BMI on the Alison Krauss cut of this song.

I put up different songs every few days as a form of shopping some of my songs I have written and recorded. Why I am not much of a singer, I do try my best at them.

Jimmy's Email: Misc9999TS@gmail.com

Jimmy's Current Band: Gigging...

Jimmy is a man of many talents. He is a published songwriter who has written over 1600 songs and recorded and sing on more then 550 of them and also has written some very well known songs for many nationally known artist and also owns his own publishing company, Immortal Beloved Music Publishing (BMI) under his BMI real name, James Wagner. Jimmy even has his own recording studio with software using Pro Tracks and Adobe Audition 3 and his own record label, Modena Cove Records! What can I say, a great musician and songwriter.
That's Jimmy!

Singing and Playing all his life in and out of hundred's of studio's and on hundred's of stages, Jimmy's musical resume reads like the whose who of the music industry. Jimmy traveled for many years on the road with the whose who of the music business and even got coined the nickname (Twinkie) from keeping boxes of Twinkies on the bus all the time cause of long trips between stops! Songwriting, Vocals and Pedal Steel Guitar, Lap Steel Guitar, Lead Guitar w/B-String Bender, Slide Lead Guitar, Pedal Dobro, Dobro, Banjo, Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Fiddle, Keyboards, Synthesizer. Jimmy is also a great producer in the studio and continues to do session work in his home with Pro Tools. Jimmy is one of a hand full of early pioneers of the B-String Bender from Minneapolis like Sherwin Linton (the origional) and Gerry Burttes, a one handed lead guitarist with amazing one handed skills.

Twinkie (Jimmy's) Bio: When Jimmy was a young man of nine, his uncle Leonard Ice inspired him to learn the guitar and banjo and sing Country and Bluegrass songs. Shortly thereafter, Bluegrass became a big part of his life. Jimmy began traveling with a Banjo picker by the name of Kenneth Bailes in the deep south of the Blue Ridge Mountains all the way to Florida.
In his mid-teens, he became interested in other forms of music, working with many bands in Blues, Jazz, and the Rock & Roll areas. Around his young 20's, he came back home to Country Music for good up in Minneapolis, Minnesota and then a decade later, he moved to Florida and finally back to Nashville (or NashVegas as some locals call it).

Jimmy played and recorded with many groups and stars since, to name a few like Clay Walker, Hank III, Dale Henry and Nite Train, Sherwin Linton and The Cottonkings, Mel Tillis, Charley Pride, Marvin Rainwater, Marilyn Sellars, Merle Haggard, Clay Walker, Jimmy C. Newman, Tommy Cash, Tommy Overstreet, Nat Stuckey, Bobby Bare, Rex Allen Jr., Waylon Jennings, Tex Ritter, Tanya Tucker, LaCosta Tucker, Steve Bledsoe, Mel and Cookie Lockwood, Battlecreek Band, Dixie Highway Band, Lynn Dvorak Show, Marshall and Roberts, Lose and Natural, HiTime Band, Bitter Creek Canyon Band, Jimmy C. Newman, Tex Ritter, John Ritter, Red Sovine, David Allen Coe, Hank Williams Jr., Dolly Parton.

Including many bands Jimmy had himself over the years ... Phoenix, Tequila Sunrise, Blackjack, The Jimmy Roberts Trio, The Jimmy Roberts Show, Jimmy Angel and the Devils, Jimmy Rivers and Dixie, Southern Railroad Band.

Jimmy's Guitar idols are Chet Atkins, James Burton, and Eric Clapton.

Jimmy's songwriting idols are Harlan Howard, Jimmy Webb, Tony Arata, Gram Parsons, and my Uncle Leonard Ice.

Jimmy's Pedal Steel Guitar idols are John Hughey, Norm Hamlett, Bud Isaacs, Ralph Mooney, Curley Chalker, David Hartley, Dave Knight, Paul Franklin, Tommy White, Lloyd Green, Sarah Jory, Barbara Mandrell, Herby Wallace, Russ Hicks, Jerry Byrd, Leon McCulliffe, Herb Remington, Speedy West, Shot Jackson, Hal Rugg, Tom Brumley, Doug Jernigan, Weldon Myrick, Jeff Newman, Jimmy Crawford, Tom Bradshaw, Julian Tharpe, Jimmy Day, Buddy Emmons, and Bud Isaacs.

His Banjo idols are Earl Scruggs, Don Reno, Bela Fleck, Carl Jackson, and Bobby Thompson.

His favorite male singers are David Ball, Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins, Vince Gill, Jimmy Buffet, George Strait, Alabama, Garth Brooks, and without a doubt, Sherwin Linton.

Jimmy's favorite female singers are Patti Loveless, Dolly Parton, Reba McIntire, Allison Kraus, Carrie Underwood, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Martina McBride, Shania Twain, Tammy Wynette, Lorrie Morgan, Ann Murray, Tanya Tucker, Faith Hill, Pam Tillis, Barbara Mandrell, Becky Hobbs, Connie Smith and Gretchen Wilson.