JG Crawford, known to his friends and family as Jim, is a Musician and Audio Restoration Specialist living in Topanga, CA. He was born in the middle of the last century in Rockford, Illinois to teen-aged parents.  Rarely did he see his mother smile, as his dad abandoned the family early on. One of those few times was when Jim was 5 years old and his Uncle Butch came to visit. He played Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry on the guitar and they all sang along. Jim equated the guitar with making his mother smile and took it up immediately upon receiving that guitar from his Uncle a few years later. By aged 13 he was playing the Byrds and Wilson Pickett with his band; spending long nights woodshedding to Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, and B.B. King and making his mother smile.  

As Jim grew, so did his talent and before long he was also doing guitar Sales, Repair and Set-ups at Guitar Center, Midi-City, and Valley Sound, where he worked on the guitars of Jeff Beck, Robby Robertson, Robin Trower and Paul McCartney. He also found himself on tour with Ambrosia and Dave Mason, and acting as Music Production Consultant for Carole King, Stevie Wonder, Joe Walsh, Stevie Nicks, The Alarm and most major record labels. 

This sustained Jim throughout his twenties and thirties.  And when it was time to settle down, he became an expert Audio Restoration Specialist in charge of re-mastering audio on all of the classic vaulted Hollywood Legacy Films. It was during this time that Jim started writing his own music. Friends and seasoned musicians came together to play it and before long Jim was performing his music at Benefit concerts for the Topanga Community Club, Maxine Waters, the Topanga Peace Alliance, and Safety Harbour Kids where he played along with Richie Hayward and Freebo. 

Over time, contacts and admiration for his music grew organically and one day he walked into a private Lucas Nelson Concert and handed a joint to a man in a hat at a mixing board. That man was Mark Howard and then started a friendship that would culminate in Mark reaching out many years later and making Jim an offer he couldn't refuse. He liked Jim's style, he said, and thought he could do something with him vocally. "Send me your twenty best songs - I'll pick ten and we will make an album."

That Album turned out to be From The Mountain Top recorded with Mark Howard as Producer (Bob Dylan's Oh Mercy and Time Out of Mind), Hal Cragin as Bassist (Joni Mitchell, They Might Be Giants), Jimmy Paxson on drums (Dixie Chicks and Stevie Nicks), Michael Chavez playing keyboards and guitar (John Mayer & Leonard Cohen) along with Jim Crawford on vocals and lead guitar.  

Jim hopes to release From The Mountain Top's first single, Lay Lady Lay (one of the albums 2 covers) in May 2024. The Album is set to hit the charts in September.