Independent Expression Radio

Jim likes to call himself "Medicine Drummer" because his purpose is to use the drum to help himself and others to a more enjoyable and healthful life. If one needs "credentials" to do this, then his having been a Medical Doctor and now being a drummer of sorts, should qualify him for that title. But, perhaps that decision should be made in the mind of the observer.

Before his awakening in Nov. of 1991 on the shore of the Pacific Ocean, Jim had experienced being a fundamentalist minister (licensed) for a few years in his youth. His Earth journey then led him to experience the classical existence of a workaholic medical doctor (Radiologist) and a testing of his desire to fly as a Flight Surgeon in the US Navy. Trying to be what he thought others wanted him to be, he was a Deacon in a large Southern Baptist Church in Oklahoma. At the height of "success" as a doctor, with a patient (part Cherokee) wife and two boys, and in deep depression, he tried to commit suicide. But Light would not let him do that but led him on an eight year journey of psychotherapy.

That journey was culminated in discovery of self and the beauty and worth by which he (and all) was created. The first music he heard when returning from a thirty minute BIG BANG was African drumming. He knew this would be the way that he was to share his joy of life and help others find out who they are and to love what they find. He is 76 and now honors his wife and the journey of all and uses the African drum and the Australian Didgeridoo to share that love.