Jim started out playing on the WCOP Hayloft Jamboree in Boston in 1954 and then for more than 50 years with banjo master Bill Keith starting at the Club 47 in 1962. Jim managed the Club 47 from mid-1965 through 1967. He was on the Board of Directors of the Newport Folk Festival from late 1965 until 1971. Jim managed the Bearsville Sound Studio in Woodstock, NY from May, 1970 until November 1972. Moving to Nashville in 1976 Jim went on the produce records for many artists, including John Prine, Nanci Griffith, Iris DeMent, Peter Rowan, and Tom Paxton. Albums by all of these artists were nominated for Grammys, with Nanci Griffith’s “Other Voices, Other Rooms” winning one in 1996. Former bandmates from Jim’s days at the Club 47 Bill Keith Joe Val and Peter Rowan are all in The Bluegrass Hall of Fame. Jim has a keen appreciation of the importance of preserving and documenting the music and history of folk music in New England which has influenced generations not only in New England but all over the world.