Jim R. Glover, long-time peace activist and folk singer, attended Ohio State University where he met Phil Ochs and introduced him to folk music, Leftist politics, and taught him how to play guitar. Jim and Phil were in a short-lived folk duo called the “Singing Socialists”, later renamed the “Sundowners”.Jim was at Phil Ochs’s infamous Gunfight at Carnegie Hall performance in March, 1970, and even performed the last song of the evening, “No More Songs. Jim appeared on the The Midnight Special (TV series) with Phil Ochs in 1974, and they performed the songs “Power and the Glory” and “Changes” together.
In 1961 Jim met Jean Ray and they formed the duo Jim and Jean. They went on to record three albums: Jim and Jean (Philips 1965), Changes (Verve Folkways 1966), and People World (Verve Forecast 1968).
Jim has participated in a number of peace demonstrations over the years, including the March on the Pentagon on October 21, 1967 to protest the war in Vietnam. Jim demonstrated at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and entertained other demonstrators along with Jean Glover and Phil Ochs at the Quiet Knight Coffee House during breaks in the protests. He wrote a peace-related poem the day after 9/11 and recited it at a peace rally in September 2001, and he wrote a peace-inspired Letter to the Editor that appeared in the St. Petersburg Times on September 28, 2001. Jim continues to perform peace-related folk songs. On April 9, 2009, Jim Glover performed a tribute to Phil Ochs at Mother’s Musical Bakery in Sarasota, Florida.
He currently runs the local area jam sessions itinerary on the internet, notifying all interested musicians of the location of the weekly jam session. If you wish to join this group of acoustical musicians and receive the weekly notifications advising where jam is located, contact him at jimglover@verizon.net.
You can see him perform three of his songs here: Jim on Youtube