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 include the Jared Delaney series- Rustler’s Moon, Colorado Moon, Waning Moon and Halo Moon, and the spin-off series including The Big Empty (2016) and The Lights of Cimarron (2019). His novella, Scarecrows, is included in the Five Star antholoyg, Perilous Frontier: A Quartet of Crime in the Old West. Solo albums include “Race with the Wind,” (2015), “Headin’ Home,” (2018), compilation CD, “Favorites,” (2019), “Good Days Are Comin’” (2021), and “Words & Music” (2022).
CD/Book Registry
2012 - Borrowed Time
2015 - Race With the Wind
2016 - The Cowboy Way (with The Cowboy Way)
2018 - Headin' Home
2019 - Go West (with The Cowboy Way)
2019 - Favorites
2021 - Good Days are Comin;
2022 - Words & Music
Talents: Author, Musician, Singer, Songwriter
Awards:
- 2023 Duo or Group of the Year
- 2022 Duo or Group of the Year
- 2019 Duo or Group of the Year
- 2019 Song of the Year
- 2014 Harmony Award
- 2014 Male Performer of the Year
- 2011 Cowboy Poetry Book of the Year
Nominations:
- 2023 Male Performer of the Year Nominee
- 2022 Entertainer of the Year Nominee
- 2022 Male Performer of the Year Nominee
- 2022 Song of the Year Nominee
- 2022 Songwriter of the Year Nominee
- 2021 Entertainer of the Year Nominee
- 2021 Male Performer of the Year Nominee
- 2019 Male Performer of the Year Nominee
- 2019 Song of the Year Nominee