Jim Stricklan

Jim Stricklan (born August 8, 1947) is an American singer-songwriter, recording artist, and radio personality.
A native Texan, Stricklan grew up near Big Spring. As a teen, he spent endless hours listening to radio, writing songs, and learning to play guitar. He started his first rock band (The Mojo Hand) with keyboardist Sally Townes in 1967 http://www.sallytownes.com/pictures.html Stricklan became a licensed broadcaster at KBYG before earning his BA in Mass Communications from Texas Tech University. In the 1970s he began building a dual career of radio and performing that has spanned more than four decades.
Stricklan moved to Denver in 1971, and for fifteen years performed at local clubs and coffee houses while working as an on-air personality at radio stations in the Mile-High City (KBPI, KIMN, KERE and KBRQ). In 1976 he was one of eleven artists featured on the KBPI Colorado Album. He was also an afternoon air-personality at legendary rock station KLOL-FM in Houston in 1979 and ’80. It was there he recorded and released his first album, Whereabouts Unknown.
During the 1980s, the Colorado Country Music Foundation voted Jim Best Country DJ for three consecutive years and inducted him into the CMF Hall of Fame. In 1985 CASHBOX Magazine named him Major Market Country Music Programmer of the Year, and he received accolades from Westword, Daily Bread, The Denver Post, and Rocky Mountain News. In 1986 he launched a country single (Your Hiding Place) that debuted on the national country music charts.
Jim met and married architect Leslie Capek and they moved to Shreveport in 1987. Director of Entertainment for legendary country station KWKH, Stricklan hosted the New Louisiana Hayride, the Ark-La-Tex Roundup, and produced the Louisiana State Fiddlers’ Championship. The Stricklans re-located to Austin, Texas in 1990, setting up a new home base for their music publishing companies Front Room Music (and Kokobilly Music). www.frontroommusic.com
Jim Stricklan has produced music by songwriters David Romero, Steve Brown, Jack Mathes, and Larry Rothwell. His 2007 novel Music Mountain—published by Outskirts Press—is a popular addition to his own extensive catalogue of CDs and songbooks.

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