"I was going to write a song about the secret of life which is, of course...KEEP BREATHING! I couldn't figure out how to make it cowboy, though, so I wrote the song Still Ridin' instead. Here's to all of you who keep gettin' back up after you get knocked down." Jim Jones won the Academy of Western Artists Will Rogers Cowboy award for Best Male Western Vocalist of 2008. His songs have been honored by the Academy of Western Artists, New Mexico Music Awards (Western Song of the Year, 2008 for "The Cowboys of New Mexico") and he is a two-time finalist in the Kerrville New Folk Songwriters competition. He lives in Corrales, New Mexico.