Jimmy Colvard

Musician · 1943–1977
Best known for Guitar

Jimmy Colvard was a guitarist who made a single as the leader of his own trio in Minnesota in 1963 and in the mid-1970s was a regular on Nashville sessions, above all Don Williams’s records of 1973 to 1976. He played guitar on John Hartford’s Flying Fish album Nobody Knows What You Do (1976).

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In 1963 the Jimmy Colvard Trio recorded two guitar instrumentals, “Six Days on the Road” and “Traveling Guitar,” at Kay Bank Studios in the Garrick Theatre in St. Paul, Minnesota, issued as a single on the Rosie label.

By 1973 he was working in Nashville studios. He played guitar on Dick Feller’s United Artists sessions in 1973 and 1974, at the House of Cash studio in Hendersonville and at Soundshop, and on Feller’s Asylum sessions at U.S. Recording in 1975, alongside Reggie Young, Bobby Thompson, Johnny Gimble and Kenny Malone. From around March 1973 to 1976 he was the acoustic and electric guitarist on Don Williams’s sessions at the Jack Clement studio on Belmont Boulevard, for JMI and then Dot, with Lloyd Green on steel and Dobro, Joe Allen on bass, Kenny Malone on drums and Buddy Spicher on fiddle. In 1976 and early 1977 he played on Bobby Borchers’s Playboy sessions at Fireside Recording, and in July 1976 on Susan Raye’s United Artists sessions at Jack Clement’s studio.

Hartford’s Nobody Knows What You Do, produced by Michael Melford, had Colvard on guitar with Sam Bush, Buddy Emmons, Benny Martin, Roy Huskey Jr. and Mac Wiseman. Colvard died in 1977.

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