Welcome to Jim Drew's Website
If Guitars Could Speak

Jim Drew is an unforgettable performer. He cranks hard on the rock n' roll stuff and slides sweet on the gentle stuff – he gets intimate with his audiences in either style. Jim brings folks along for an energetic ride with both his music and his lyrics. No one is just "a listener" with Jim, as if he was some pleasant background noise. Jim's popularity (equally with patrons in a bar, a concert hall, or a sanctuary) arises from his deep devotion to excellence in the crafting of a profound musical experience. He does so much more than play a six-string – that guitar speaks, weeps, cries, yells, and celebrates in Jim's hands.

People today crave much more than just some good tunes. They want a significant moment through a concert master, someone who knows how to treat them and not just the instrument up on the stage. This is the expertise of Jim Drew: taking pain, hilarity, disaster, reality, and fantasy from the lives of the audience, weaving it with his own journey, and producing "a moment" in the mix of music and message. What people yearn for – it happens. Truly unforgettable.

Some performers have a singular comfort zone – hard rock or suave folk or country ballad – but when you've heard one or two songs, that's about it. More of the same. Not with Jim. He can grab you hard and throw you on a roller coaster that's crazy wild, and in a few minutes bring you around a nostalgic campfire with everyone singing along… and then light a fuse and shock you with a bomb. He calls his music "pizza rock" – great, true Americana music that goes best with a bunch of friends and a chance to chew on what it all means for a while – topped with just about everything in the house. Some of it's hot, some sweet, some spicy, some cheesy, but all of it's delicious.

Contact Jim Drew. Check him out. Look at what he has done in churches, bars, conventions, concerts, back yards, camps, or on the street. The setting is just a place – it's the people of your place that matter the most to Jim. You will find that what you want most in your place, Jim can help you accomplish, with excellence, humor, depth, emotion – and a plain old good time.

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A thought from Jim:

"When is the past not the past?

I have always liked riddles, though I am not sure I am really good at them. I loved the whole riddle game in the book "The Hobbit". Way cool! So why do I pose this particular riddle? I suppose that to me this riddle is more than a game. It is a part of the songs I sing and I hope you will join me in turning it around a little for an evening.Let's take a journey of music and thought together.

While you are here:

Take some time to peruse the site. hit the listen tab and it will bring up a myspace page, (though I am looking to have a player right here soon). There are downloads available for individual songs.

Also, while you are here go ahead and sign up for the newsletter which will keep you up to date on gigs and news and recordings but will also announce some free downloads once in a while. I try to put it out once a month so here ya go. Then check the calendar for concerts in your area. See ya soon!  Jim"

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We get By with a little Help from our Fans

Hey Everybody!!!!

Yes, I am excited and it is because of you all and what I think your part in this band can be!

Some of you may know, (because you may have helped), that the name of the band, Jim Drew & Humble Soul came from your input a while back. Yes, the fans named the band, submitting multiple ideas and then I had you all vote on the top five. The name has been so cool to use and it seemed to fit the blues/Rock genre, or as they say in Nashville, the "Americana" mid-west sound we have, mixed with our tasting of progressive rock and all the other tidbits. It was a wonderful experience so I want to do this again.

We are just beginning to design our stage look for concerts. I am working on one design for solo and would love some input for that but the main deal here is to have you think of what you believe represents the bands music. What look would bring together the sound and attitude, the mix of fun and serious and then all that raw Rock/Blues sound of Humble Soul? What goes with that name an moods you folks have enjoyed when you come to our/my shows?

I cannot say we would use all the ideas but I would love a free flowing, all out brain storm, no censoring, blast of ideas on what a stage should look like if we were to come in and do our concert for yu next time we arrive. We would like to start putting together a stage design where folks should feel they truly stepped in off the street and into our own little world; at least for the length of a concert.

So, it is up to you to come up with the ideas and then up to us to take all those ideas, see what we can accomplish, possibly in phases, and then start implementing them. The simplest part of this is we do have a main logo/brand for the band so a rock n Roll muslin banner or something like that is the first step, but we want to create a whole atmosphere.

The band is working hard on so many other things. The show is constantly being tweaked and we now have a few folks at Disney seriously looking at us coming down, as well as some other really cool possibilities in the works. We want to be prepared to go for it so let's have a blast doing this together!

Jim Drew & Humble Soul