| 词条 | Jim Page (singer) |
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|name = Jim Page |image = Starlight Mountain - Jim Page.jpg |caption = Jim Page (1994) |background = solo_singer |birth_name = |alias = | birth_place = | birth_date ={{Birth year and age|1949}} |death_date = |origin = |instrument = Guitar Vocals |genre = Folk |occupation = Songwriter Vocalist |years_active = 1965 to present |label = |associated_acts = Artis the Spoonman |website = JimPage.net }} Jim Page (born 1949) is an American folk singer-songwriter and social activist. Early lifePage was born in Palo Alto, California in 1949[1] and moved to Seattle in 1971. Music career and activismHe is known for his political songs and for his activism in support of buskers. He is one of the organizers of Buskerfest in Seattle. He frequently appears with Artis the Spoonman. He tours internationally, yet he still plays at Pike Place Market as a street performer. Page began playing guitar at age 15.[2] In 1974, his protest song and testimony convinced the Seattle City Council to drop the requirement that street performers have a permit to perform.[3] [4]Notable workPage is well known in coffee houses and folk clubs in Seattle and the northwest, as well as in Britain and Ireland, where he toured for several years. His best known songs include "Fireside", his first song, written in 1967, Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette", an anti-nuclear weapons song from his 1976 album "On the Street Again", later covered by Moving Hearts and Christy Moore, "On the Street Again", "Time Enough for Questions When the Killing's Done", about the eternal quest for a 'man of honor', "Cultus Bay Serenade", "Miles and Miles", about the modernization of the San Francisco Bay Area, "Anna Mae", "An Old Pair of Red Shoes", and "Gasworks Park". He has also questioned US involvement in the Iraq war [5][6] Discography
References1. ^{{Citation|author=Bush, James|title=Encyclopedia of Northwest Music: From Classical Recordings to Classic Rock Performances, Your Guide to the Best of the Region|publisher=Sasquatch Books|location=Seattle, Wash|year=1999|pages=255–256|isbn=1-57061-141-6|oclc=|doi=}} 2. ^{{Citation | last = Stout | first = Gene | author-link = | last2 = | first2 = | author2-link = | title = SeattleNoise: Jim Page | newspaper = Seattle P-I | pages = | date = 2007-03-02 | url = http://www.seattlepi.com/pop/305656_postcard02.html | accessdate=2007-11-05}} 3. ^{{Citation | title= Hot Dish: Dylan and Grillin' | newspaper = Seattle Weekly | date = 2004-08-11 | url = http://www.seattleweekly.com/2004-08-11/food/hot-dish.php | accessdate=2007-11-05}} 4. ^{{Citation | title= 50 Most Influential Musicians | magazine= Seattle Metropolitan | date= December 2008 | url= http://www.seattlemet.com/issues/archives/articles/1208-feature-50musicians/10/ | accessdate=2009-01-15}} 5. ^{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuprDK_aNuk |title=Something About Us |publisher=YouTube |date=2007-07-05 |accessdate=2013-04-01}} 6. ^{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yRK_sbFIaA |title=Head Full of Pictures by Jim Page |publisher=YouTube |date= |accessdate=2013-04-01}} External links{{Commons category|Jim Page}}
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