Jim Hodges Music

Jim Hodges is an independent Texas-based project-oriented musician, composer, director and producer.

James (Jim) McKinley Hodges (born in Newport News, Virginia on July 31, 1942) is an independent Texas-based, project-oriented musician, composer, director and producer. Hodges, a native of Florence, South Carolina, received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music from Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina. Additionally, Hodges studied one year privately with both Josef Raiff at the Julliard School of Music and privately with John Mehegan in jazz improvisation in New York City.Hodges has composed and produced music for such clients as: TxDOT, Wal-Mart, Maybelline, Radio Shack, Tandy Corporation, Nissan, Stop & Go, Diamond Shamrock, Pepsi, Frito-Lay, Dillard's, Tom Thumb, Murine, Jimmy Dean Sausage, Kern's Nectars, Poulan-Weedeater, Mazatlan Tourism, Success Rice, Texaco, Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems, Holiday Inn, Citgo, Wet n' Wild, Whataburger, Sonic, Thriftway, ColorTyme, Beall's, Utopia Spring Water, Berryman Auto Products, Precision Tune, Rudy's Farm, Wendy's, Justin Boots, Compaq, Igloo, Bryan Foods, Garden Ridge, Houston Astros, Houston Metro, Luby's, Randall's, Sanderson Farms, Cook Children's Hospital, Captain D's, and Ranch Style Beans, Polygrip, Nature's Remedy, Pediasure, Texas Wild!, Joe's Crab Shack and the Texas Lottery.Jim has produced and composed commercial music with such artists as: Delbert McClinton, Michael Bolton, Beverly Sills, Leon Redbone, Marc Cohn, Dinah Shore, Lee Greenwood, Louise Mandrell, Dobie Gray, Joel Sonnier, Jim Horn, David Hungate and Larry Knechtel, . . . and in concert, he produced The Gatlin Brothers, Barbara Mandrell, Brenda Lee and Mel Tillis.