Jimmy Haley
Musician · Pilot Mountain, North Carolina
Best known for
Guitar
Jimmy Haley is a North Carolina guitarist and lead singer who was an original member of Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver in 1979 — the lead voice on the band's self-titled debut and the landmark gospel album "Rock My Soul," and later a co-founder of the New Quicksilver with Terry Baucom and Randy Graham.
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- Original guitarist and lead vocalist for Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, the band Lawson formed in April 1979 after leaving the Country Gentlemen.
- Sang lead and played guitar on the group's self-titled 1979/1980 Sugar Hill debut and on the landmark gospel album "Rock My Soul" (1981).
- Earlier in his teens, played in the North Carolina-based Bluegrass Buddies alongside future bandmate Lou Reid.
- Left Quicksilver in 1985 with banjoist Terry Baucom and bassist Randy Graham to form The New Quicksilver, which included mandolinist Alan Bibey from the start in 1985.
- Continued working with Baucom in later projects including Baucom, Bibey, Graham & Haley.
- Also performed with Alan Bibey's band Grasstowne.
- Now lives in Pilot Mountain, North Carolina, where he works as an interior paint contractor and plays music locally.
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Doyle Lawson and QuicksilverPlayed on recordings with Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver
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Baucom, Bibey, Graham and HaleyPlayed on recording with Baucom, Bibey, Graham and Haley
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Dan Crary and ThunderationPlayed on recording with Dan Crary and Thunderation
