Obit: Jim McReynolds

Subject: Obit: JIm McReynolds
From: Banjer
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 04:19 PM

Not a good way to and the year:

WSM is announcing that Jim McReynolds, who with his brother comprised the famous bluegrass group Jim and Jesse, died of cancer early this evening at Sumner Medical Center in Gallatin, Tennessee. He was 75.

His death follows that of his wife, Arreta, by only 12 days. She died of a heart attack on Thursday the 19th

Subject: RE: Obit: JIm McReynolds
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 05:09 PM

Sad news. Saw Jim & Jesse at many a bluegrass festival in the 70's and 80's. He'll be missed.

Bruce

Subject: RE: Obit: Jim McReynolds
From: kendall
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 07:11 PM

I added this news to the 2002 honor roll earlier.

Subject: RE: Obit: Jim McReynolds
From: Banjer
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 07:25 PM

I didn't see it Kendall, I just found the notice in a newsgroup that I check on occasionaly. Thanks!

Subject: RE: Obit: Jim McReynolds
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 09:35 PM

RIP Jim. Wonderful music over a lifetime.

Rick

Subject: RE: Obit: Jim McReynolds
From: kendall
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 10:06 PM

Thats ok Mate, it belongs in both places.

Subject: RE: Obit: Jim McReynolds
From: Greycap
Date: 02 Jan 03 - 03:39 AM

I can still hear 'em singing "Sweet Little Miss Blue-Eyes" - Aw, sh*t.

Subject: RE: Obit: Jim McReynolds
From: Nathan in Texas
Date: 02 Jan 03 - 09:45 AM

Here a Link to his obituary in the Tennessean.

Subject: RE: Obit: Jim McReynolds
From: Jim Krause
Date: 02 Jan 03 - 11:43 AM

I saw him last Feb. at a bluegrass festival. Shook his hand too. Real nice fellow. He even seemed a little embarrassed, thinking he should have known who I was. I apologized and said "No, Mr. McReynolds, I know you from your recordings better than you know me." And we both laughed at that. May he rest in peace.
Jim

Subject: RE: Obit: Jim McReynolds
From: kendall
Date: 02 Jan 03 - 01:12 PM

He and Jesse often went "field picking" with ordinary folks. Southern gentlemen, both of them.

Subject: RE: Obit: Jim McReynolds
From: beadie
Date: 02 Jan 03 - 01:16 PM

Field pickin', indeed. I learned the lyric to "Paradise" at one of Jim and Jesse's impromptu seminars years ago. Professionalism and the dedication to sharing the music were their hallmark.

Subject: RE: Obit: Jim McReynolds
From: GUEST,Gern
Date: 03 Jan 03 - 10:34 AM

The ranks are certainly getting thinner in bluegrass' patriarch generation. Jim was a fine singer and class act; perhaps overshadowed by his innovative brother. But, handling the melody in memorable brother-harmonies, he gave us "Hard Hearted," "Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes," "Freight Train," "Diesel on my Tail," "Ole Slewfoot," "Are You Missing Me?" and hundreds of other vintage bluegrass tunes. What is Jesse to do? Imagine brothers so close they work together nearly every night for over 50 years, marry sisters and buy adjoining farms. "There's a better home a-waiting..."

Subject: RE: Obit: Jim McReynolds
From: X
Date: 03 Jan 03 - 12:29 PM

Bye Jim.

Subject: RE: Obit: Jim McReynolds
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 06 Jan 03 - 04:12 PM

I was out of town and just heard of his passing today. Sorry to lose another great.

Subject: RE: Obit: Jim McReynolds
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jan 03 - 06:25 PM

Jim & Jesse's guitar/mandolin sound is one of the defining bluegrass sounds I've come to love so much.

Sad news, but perhaps not so unexpected considering the cancer, and recent loss of his wife. Funny how quickly one partner follows the other sometimes, isn't it?

Subject: RE: Obit: Jim McReynolds
From: Art Thieme
Date: 07 Jan 03 - 09:21 PM

It is quite strange. But it does seem to happen that some couples, like geese and other animals, mate for life. John and Marie Hartford went close together too.

Art Thieme