Jim Jones
Jim Jones was the Western Music Association’s 2014 Male Performer of the Year and winner of 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. He is part of the trio, The Cowboy Way, which has received the International Western Music Association’s Group of the Year Award six times. Their first album, “The Cowboy Way,” received the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s Wrangler Award for Traditional Album of the Year and their second album, “Go West,” received the IWMA’s 2019 Traditional Western Album of the Year. 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. Jim has produced ten Western/Folk albums and three award-winning children’s character education videos. 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), published by both Five Star Publishing and Speaking Volumes Press. In addition, his novella, “Scarecrows,” part of a four piece anthology from Five Star called Perilous Frontier, was released in 11/21. His children’s book, Bolo the Brave, illustrated by Kamee Young, was published in 11/20 and was a 2021 Western Writers of America Spur Finalist. Bolo the Brave: True Friend was published in 2/22. Solo albums include “Race with the Wind,” “Headin’ Home,” compilation CD, “Favorites,” “Good Days Are Comin’,” “Words & Music,” and coming in 2024, “Storyteller: Tales From the West.”
Ø NM/AZ Book Awards: 2023 Adventure category: Halo Moon
Ø Western Heritage Wrangler Award: 2022 Outstanding Original Western Composition for “Old Horses and Old Men” (Jim Jones, Deanna McCall, Dave McCall)
Ø Western Writers of America: 2021 Spur Award- “Don’t Say Goodbye to the Cowboy Way,” (Jim Jones, Randy Huston) Western Song of the Year
Ø Western Writers of America: 2021 Spur Finalist- “Bolo the Brave,” illustrated by Kamee Young
Ø International Western Music Association: 2019 Song of the Year- “It’s a Cowboy I Will Be.”
Ø International Western Music Association: The Cowboy Way- Group of the Year, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
Ø International Western Music Association: 2019 Traditional Album of the Year, “Go West”
Ø Western Writers of America: 2017 Spur Award- “Halfway Down the Devil’s Road,” (Jim Jones, Allan Chapman) Western Song of the Year
Ø Western Heritage Wrangler Award: 2017 Best Traditional Western Album, “The Cowboy Way”; 2019 New Horizons Award for Co-Producer of “I’ll Ride Thru It” by Deanna McCall
Ø Academy of Western Artists: 2016 Western Song of the Year
Ø Western Music Association: 2014 Male Performer of the Year
Ø Western Writers of America: 2013 Spur for Best Western Song- “Texas is Burnin”
Ø Academy of Western Artists: 2008 Male Vocalist of the Year
Ø New Mexico Music Awards: 2009 Best Western Song- “Cowboys of New Mexico”