Jim Byrnes(feat.Steve Dawson) - Louis Collins (encore)

                       Live in Club  Q-bus. Leiden Holland 2010-10-26. Taped by Ane (flipp022)

 James Thomas Kevin Byrnes (born September 22, 1948) is an American actor and blues musician. 

In 1968 Jim was drafted and served in the Vietnam War for a year in the 196th Infantry Brigade. He has lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, since the mid-1970s. On February 26, 1972, he was struck by a passing car while he attempted to help move a stalled truck on the Island Highway North of Parksville, which injured his legs and forced them both to be amputated.

                                       Louis Collins (Mississippi John Hurt)

As a musician, Byrnes has won the Juno Award for Blues Album of the Year three times, for That River in 1996 and House of Refuge on Black Hen Music in 2007, and for Everywhere West in 2011. Byrnes was also honoured at the 2006 Maple Blues Awards, as Male Vocalist of the Year.^[5] The Canadian Folk Music Awards recognized him as the Contemporary Singer of the Year in 2006 and 2009

Steve Dawson is an award-winning Canadian guitarist, pedal steel player, multi-instrumentalist, producer and engineer living and working in Nashville, TN. He spent the last few years on the road playing guitar with Birds of Chicago, and Canadian powerhouse Matt Andersen.