Album Notes

Jim Anger is a folk-style singer-songwriter who has written more than ninety songs, a fair number about one of his favorite song subjects, trains. Jim uses six-string and 12-string guitars, occasional banjo, and harmonicas to back up his vocals. He often includes other musician friends on his albums. He says it always makes the music better.

He has released four albums: "The Train's A-Comin,'" an all trains songs CD; "Headin'Out," an album whose songs cover a variety of topics but also includes some railroading songs; "Then & Now & Again," a compilation of both traditional and contemporary folk songs, with his brother Mike Anger and son-in-law Tim Herrick; and a children's album, "Rainbow in the Sky," which includes a song largely written by children. The songs on Jim's albums are always family-friendly.

Jim performs at Wisconsin and Upper Michigan coffeehouses,
schools, libraries, folk festivals, and health care centers and retirement facilities. He is also a reading and writing educator. He is a member of the Green Apple Folk Music Society and the Children's Music Network. One of his songs, a parody of David Mallet's Garden Song, entitled The Snow-throw Song, was printed in the Winter, 2003 issue of Sing Out Magazine, and some of his songs have been heard on the Wisconsin Public Radio program, Simply Folk.