Born on September 22, 1948, Jim Byrnes grew up in St. Louis, the middle child of a middle class family. In 1968 he was drafted and served in the Vietnam War for a year in the 196th Infantry Brigade. "From callow bohemian to weary pilgrim, here’s a …
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An eclectic soul, he studied for the priesthood in a seminary, and was even a professional shepherd at one point. The Jim Byrnes Show Jim Byrnes, owner of Blue Byrnes Bar (1998) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Elf Crowd Member #2 (1998) Murder Call Guy Hanson (1998) The Animated Adventures of Tom Sawyer Pop (1998)
Jim broke into the TV market in 1987 acting in and singing a song he had written for the NBC miniseries "Hands of a Stranger".
A treasured actor and blues musician, Jim Byrnes began his love with acting and music when he was still a small child.
Jim has proven that a serious car …
The city streets of my boyhood; steam heat rising off the Mississippi; the railroad; grits and gravy; the Cardinals and the Dodgers on the radio; summers in Kentucky and the Ozarks; Jimmy Reed at The London House East, Bobby “Blue” Bland at the Cosmo Hall; Muddy at the Moonlight Lounge and Slick’s Lakeside; the High Plains of east Colorado on a winter morning; the Charlie Company Boogie; all those nights in all those rented rooms; the wind off the ocean; the winter storms; the tough break and the heartache; the dust of Mexico; twilight on the Seine; the evening breeze, the distant thunder, the sweetness of the rain; the light and the laughter in my children’s eyes; the constant struggle and infinite joy of love."
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