Jim Conway (musician)

This article is about the Australian harmonica player Jim Conway. For the Irish-American harmonica player, see James Conway (musician).
For other people with the same name, see James Conway (disambiguation).

Jim Conway
The handprints of Jim Conway in front of Hollywood Hills Amphitheater at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park.
The handprints of Jim Conway in front of Hollywood Hills Amphitheater at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park.
Background information
BornMelbourne, Victoria, Australia
GenresBlues, jazz, country
InstrumentHarmonica
Years active1971–2014
Websitejimconway.com.au

James Conway is an Australian harmonica player and with his brother, Mic Conway, was a co-founder of the 1970s humour, theatre and rock group, The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band.[1][2][3]

Conway plays blues, jazz and country music, and has undertaken national tours with American bluesman Brownie McGhee, The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, Circus Oz and Backsliders and more recently Jim Conway's Big Wheel.

  1. ^ McFarlane (1999). Encyclopedia entry for 'Captain Matchbox'. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
  2. ^ Spencer et al, (2007) CAPTAIN MATCHBOX WHOOPEE BAND Archived 25 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine entry. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
  3. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book Ltd. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.