Performance · Production
Jimmy Lafave
Jimmy Lafave is credited on 47 releases across 29 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1979–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
47
Pressings credited
29
Albums
6
Decades active
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In collections
Biography
Jimmy LaFave (July 12, 1955 – May 21, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter and folk musician. After moving to Stillwater, Oklahoma, LaFave became a supporter of Woody Guthrie. He later became an Advisory Board member and regular performer at the annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. In 1996 LaFave received the Kerrville Folk Festival songwriter of the year award and appeared on the TV show Austin City Limits. He recorded 15 albums and his 2007 release, Cimarron Manifesto, reached the No. 1 mark on the Americana Music Association album chart. In 2012, LaFave released the studio album Depending on the Distance. LaFave was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 2017 alongside Carl Belew, musician-actor Rodney Lay, the Red Dirt Rangers, David Teegarden, Sr. and singer-harmonica player Junior Markham.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
47 releases · 29 albums · active 1979–2026
- Performance · 88
- Production · 13
- Other credits · 10
- Engineering · 1
Studios: Cedar Creek Recording · Mars Studio (2) · Lamb Recordings, Stillwater, OK · Rootball Studio, Austin, Texas
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Tom Russell
- The Wrockers
- Slaid Cleaves
- Abra Moore
- Wyckham Porteous
- The Kennedys
- Ray Wylie Hubbard
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