Since 1998, the AM Band has consisted of Jim along with Carl Keesee (bass), T Jarrod Bonta (piano). Ralph Power joined the gang on drums in 2007, along with Roy Glaze alternating with James Shelton on pedal steel. Jenn Miori is the Featured Tuesday Night Vocalist.
The name, The AM Band, originally derived from "Austin Music Band", because there's just one band in Austin and everyone plays in it! In the lifetime of the band, regular members have included: Lee Potter (drums), Boomer Norman (guitar), "Uptown" Alan Barnette (featured vocalist), Dave Wesselowski (bass), Gene Kurtz (rhythm guitar), Charlie Prichard (rhythm guitar), Jon Hahn (drums), Kevin Hall (drums). Frequent guest performers have included Timmy Campbell (drums), Lisa Pankratz (drums), Ethan Shaw (bass), David Carroll (bass), Dallas Wayne (bass), Vance Hazen (bass), Scott Esbek (bass), Charle Irwin (bass), Brad Fordham (bass), Herb Steiner (pedal steel), Bobby Snell (pedal steel), Andrew Nafziger (guitar), Tommy Detamore (pedal steel on "In My Hand"), Ricky Davis (pedal steel on "In My Hand"), Rufus Otis (11 string quackophone), Mitzi Henry (featured vocalist), L'il Rachel (featured vocalist).
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Guitar influences are numerous: Chet Atkins, James Burton, Hank Garland, Merle Travis... Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, Larry Coryell, Herb Ellis... Andres Segovia, John Williams... Freddy King, Bo Diddley, Don Everly... The Ventures, Duane Eddy.
Songwriting influences: Otis Blackwell, Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Charmichael (sp?), Harlan Howard, Willie Nelson, John Hiatt, Nick Lowe, Bob Wills, Lennon & McCartney, Buck Owens.
Band influences: The Fabulous Silvertones, Mike Finnigan & The Serfs, Jerry Hahn Brotherhood, The Beatles, The Billy Spears Band, Elvis Presley.
Jim Stringer began his long music career in Kansas City leading his own band at the tender age of 12 in 1960. After many years of performing, touring and recording, in 1994, Stringer pulled up stakes and has been living, working and, as always, honing his craft as guitarist, producer, and singer-songwriter, in the competitive but nurturing environment of Austin, Texas. During that time, his guitar has been heard with more than 30 Austin artists, live or on record, including Ted Roddy, Wayne Hancock, Roger Wallace, Marti Brom, Susanna Van Tassel, Karen Poston and many others. His own AM Band has released four CDs and has been included on nearly two dozen 20 compilations. The band has toured widely, a featured act at Twangfest 8, and at festivals in Europe. A busy producer for Austin artists, Jim produced the now legendary "Travis County Pickin'" for HighTone. TCP has become a standard in the libraries of guitar enthusiasts. In 2006, Jim was inducted into the Kansas/Kansas City Music Hall of Fame alongside such greats as Big Joe Turner and Al Downing.
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TONITE!!! FRIDAY OCTOBER 30th Sin City Social Club's Day of the Dead Rock Star Ball with a special one-time only performance by THE SKELETONEZ (featuring members of THE MOTHER TRUCKERS, SHURMAN and STONEHONEY) with special guests Nakia, Rosie Flores and more! The Scoot Inn 1308 E. 4th Austin, TX 78702 $5 8pm doors * Scary Monsters & Superfreaks welcome! * Pumpkin Carving ... (byo pumpkin) * devilishly good pot luck ... bring your favorite maggot stew, deviled eggs ..
And we both know it just won't be the same without Jim Stringer & the AM Band at the party so put on a costume and head on down for a goulishly good time!!
We are back from tour and playing Saturday night at the Continental Club with our good friends the Mother Truckers-we hit at 10PM! hope u can amke it down- Shurman ..
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It..s time to make history.
Please, visit our web and vote to choose the best Garth Brooks #1.
The best tune will be our 2009 International Country Music Day Song.
Thank you!
Hey, Im posting new videos today! and if you are in Texas, come on out to Six Flags (san Antonio) Friday where I'll be performing with Drake Bell (of Nickelodeon's Josh and Drake) and Saturday with Drake in Six Flags Dallas. Sunday I will be at Jo's on Congress in Austin! Hope to see some of yall out this weekend! Ruby Jane
A busy July 4...first THE CRUMPLETONS will be at Watson Park [train park] in Lawrence from 4 - 5:30pm...then follow JOHN AND BILL to the Rapheal Hotel/Chez Lounge 325 Ward Parkway Saturday July 4, 8-12pm...will be doing our Lounge Guitar Stylings there....J
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That Rockabilly Fever by Sheree Homer is a candid account of life on the
road and in the studio with '50s legends and today's talent. These are personal
stories told by the artists themselves. It's a soft cover biography that will
be published in October 2009 by McFarland Publishers and retail for $39.95. It
will have never before seen photos (strictly 1950's photos of the legends) and
rare stories from the artists themselves. Catch
That Rockabilly Fever will be approximately 350 pages in length. It will be
unlike any other rockabilly book on the market since it will include some of
today's hottest young talent plus insightful stories from 1950's backing
musicians and engineers for the first time, such as James Kirkland (Bob Luman,
Ricky Nelson), Richie Frost (Ricky Nelson), Steve Handford (Bobby Lee
Trammell), Tony Austin (Rock and Roll Trio), Stanley Walker (Ray Smith), Bobby
Poe (Wanda Jackson), Vernon Sandusky (Big Al Downing) and Bob Sullivan
(KWKH/Louisiana Hayride). Foreword by acclaimed writer Ken Burke.
These forty-six artists will have individual profiles and one
glamorous photo per musician: Glen Glenn, Lew Williams, Art Adams, Elvis
Presley, Ricky Nelson, Bob Luman, Ed Bruce, Dickey Lee, Jack Earls, Hayden
Thompson, Maddox Brothers and Rose, Sonny Burgess, Carl Mann, Ray Smith, Johnny
Powers, Larry Donn, Pat Cupp, Ronnie Hawkins, Bobby Lee Trammell, Huelyn
Duvall, Gene Summers, Sonny West, Buddy Holly, The Collins Kids, Wanda Jackson,
Charlie Gracie, Big Al Downing, Laura Lee Perkins, The Rock and Roll Trio,
Narvel Felts, The Dave and Deke Combo, Kim Lenz, Go Cat Go, High Noon, Larry
Cole, Cari Lee Merritt, Josie Kreuzer, Eddie Clendening, Suzy and Buddy Dughi,
The Casey Sisters, Carl Sonny Leyland, Dawn Shipley, Sue Moreno, Ruby Ann, and Tex
Rubinowitz.
I am swingin' to T's CD on my home stereo in Kansas...loving all 12 tracks!! Thanks to you both, for the memories!! (Dig those old time photos, man...priceless!)
Hey, Y'all! Download my new tunes and I can finish recording! On my myspace page, new songs are posted unfinished, unmastered. Be one of the few to get them. Help me raise the money to finish production! Ruby Jane