Jim Jones – Author, Musician, Performer

Jim Jones was the Western Music Association’s 2014 Male Performer of the Year. He’s a winner of the 2022 Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding Original Western Composition, the International Western Music Association 2019 Song of the Year, Academy of Western Artists 2016 Western Song of the Year and Western Writers of America 2013, 2017 and 2021 Spur Awards for Best Western Song. His songs and books are about the West … cowboys, horses & cattle, cattle rustlers, the coming of the train … songs about people and land, rivers and mountains, the beauty of the Western sky. Western novels, published by Speaking Volumes Press, include the Jared Delaney series- Rustler’s Moon, Colorado Moon, Waning Moon, Halo Moon, and coming in June, 2025, Hunter’s Moon, the final book in the series. He also has a spin-off series from the Jared Delaney series that includes The Big Empty (2016) and The Lights of Cimarron (2019). His short story, Go On, is included in the anthology, Through Western Storms, published in 2024, edited by Richard Prosch. Jim also has written a children’s series, Bolo the Brave, which includes three separate stories and will be published in the Spring of 2025 by Speaking Volumes Press. Solo albums include “Race with the Wind,” (2015), “Headin’ Home,” (2018), compilation CD, “Favorites,” (2019), “Good Days Are Comin’” (2021), “Words & Music” (2022) and “Storyteller: Tales From the West” (2024).