Jim Tepe is a singer/guitar player from Merrick, NY. Or at least he was in 1973-1974 when we used to play together. He introduced me to a lot of Jonathan Edwards songs.
If you want to order any of Jim’s CDs, click here.
Cry, Cry Blue
Flag Decal
Old Joe Clark
Athens County
Ballad of Jed Clampett
Shanty
Act Naturally
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Spanish Pipedream
Friend of the Devil
Foggy Mt. Breakdown
Hard workin John/Please Daddy
Rocky Mt. High
I’ve Got a Name
Sunshine
Big Jim
Dixie Breakdown
Mountain Air
Paradise
Arkansas Traveler
Sugar Baby
Cedar Hill
Shanty
Danny’s Song
Emma
City of New Orleans
I always loved hearing you sing EMMA. Wow this is a rare find and a treat. Linda
Jim Tepe was the reason I started playing guitar so long ago. I used to go see him play anywhere I could… seems like Neptunes South was a venue.
Such a great player, singer, harp player the whole package.
Wonder where he is these days
Been looking myself.
I used to see Jim Tepe at Neptunes Pub . I was introduced to Spanish Pipedream, Shanty, and Cosmic Cowboy by him. I really enjoyed his sets. I hope he’s well.
Man, I’ve been looking for you for years. I hope you’re doing well. I hope you had a good life. Those were the days my friend and I thought they’d never end. I’m so happy to find this, and thank you very much to Roger Weiss for putting this up here. You don’t know. You made an old man very happy. Joe DC aka Magic Joe. Neptunes south days
Thanks so much for this! When I was in high school, I was quite a fan and lucky enough to drag an 8 track down to Neptunes and record Jim Tepe. I still play his music from time to time and have introduced his music to others as well. As I understand it, Jim was heavily into folk music – “music that originates in traditional popular culture or that is written in such a style. Folk music is typically of unknown authorship and is transmitted orally from generation to generation”. I hope he has had a wonderful life and rest assured; I have past it down to my kids as well.
Bruce – how in the world are you doing? Over the years I’ve played the cassette that you made for me from your 8 track at least a thousand times! I recently was able to copy it to a file and provided it to Roger who said he would pass it to Jim. The effort that you made to record Jim and to provide me with a copy has brought me great joy. Thanks so much!
Please get in touch if you have time. It would be fun to catch up.
Al Kwiatkowski
If you want to order any of Jim’s CDs, I added a link above.
Greatly appreciate your help, music received wonderful to hear some of the later works.