Jim Vick Information

A veteran songwriter, solo performer, band leader, producer, and session guitarist, Jim Vick has received numerous arts and performance awards for his work in the U.S. and has shared the stage with many much bigger names in the music world. And though you may have already heard his music featured on the soundtrack of Taste the Islands, the Lifetime Network and American Public Television syndicated cooking show, or any of a number of independent and promotional films and other media works, you probably don't know him by name. Unless, of course, you've caught a live performance or stumbled across one of his independently released albums sometime in the past 35 years or so. For over a decade now, Jim has continued performing regularly, but almost exclusively, on the south Caribbean coast of Costa Rica in the little surf and ecotourism town of Puerto Viejo, Limon that has become his home. His multi-instrument one-man-jam-band shows, solo and duo acoustic sets, and double looping duo and full band shows with former Skatalites jazz and reggae keyboardist Cameron Greenlee are featured at some of the area's finest performance venues during the winter-spring high tourism season. Since early in the Covid-19 pandemic, Jim has been creating Live at Home videos of his new and previously unreleased songs and releasing them on his YouTube channel. Still at work on production of his long in progress Bhakti Blue: The Rumi Songs, an album of new songs based on the Sufi poet's work, Jim's most recent album release, Punta Rasta , combines the reggae and calypso sounds of the Caribbean with bluesy guitar, Latin jazz, Afropop, and American folk in a musical "rondon" stew that one fan calls "Latin Americana." It's available on disc and for downloading here and at most major online distributors, including iTunes, Bandcamp, and Amazon, and for streaming on Apple Music, Spotify, and Amazon Prime. Sign up for Jim's email updates above and you'll get links to free downloads of some of his newest tracks, including "That Caribbean ...