Jim Byrnes

Toronto Blues Society Readies Annual Maple Blues Awards

PUBLISHED Jan 28, 2021

The Toronto Blues Society's annual Maple Blues Awards are going virtual for 2021, with streams taking place every Monday in February from a...

Jim Byrnes, Steve Dawson and Big Dave McLean Team Up for Canadian Tour

PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2014

Vancouver label Black Hen Music has been a dependable source of rootsy sounds for nearly two decades, and this fall the company will be gat...

Jim Byrnes

St. Louis Times

PUBLISHED Apr 15, 2014

Juno Award-winning bluesman Jim Byrnes has long been a mainstay of the Canadian blues scene, but he actually grew up in St. Louis. He explo...

Jim Byrnes Revisits His Childhood with 'St. Louis Times'

PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2014

Veteran Vancouver bluesman Jim Byrnes' solo discography has swelled rapidly in the past decade, and he'll be adding to his catalogue again...

Jim Byrnes

I Hear the Wind in the Wires

PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2012

The gap between blues and country isn't a wide one and it's bridged here by BC veteran Jim Byrnes in effortless and convincing style. Prima...

Jim Byrnes

House of Refuge

PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2007

Vancouver based ex-pat American Jim Byrnes hasn’t been prolific since his 1981 debut, but what he lacks in volume he makes up for in qualit...

Jim Byrnes

Fresh Horses

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2004

Gruff, smoky, and soulful vocals greet the first-time listener of blues journeyman Jim Byrnes, a veteran of the genre who has been on that...