Jim Dungan - Guitar, Vocals
Jim Dungan was born in the middle of the 1960's in
Lewistown, the
geographic center of Montana. The son of a long-haul trucker, he spent
his formative years in Missoula, MT. In his early teens he took up the
guitar and managed to pick some Bob Dylan, Jerry Jeff Walker, and crude
versions of bluegrass tunes learned from the Dirt Bands' "Will the
Circle be Unbroken". Jim left Missoula in the mid 1980's for the big
city of Boston, MA, where he studied guitar at the Berklee College of
Music for three years. He came to Bozeman in 1988 to attend Montana
State University. His days in early 1990's Bozeman were spent playing
rock music in such bands as Tiny
Vanilla, and The Mud People,
and roots/blues in Boogie
Chillun'. After stints in New York, Seattle and Los
Angeles Jim moved back to Bozeman with his wife Erica and started a
family.(Two sons, Jack and Aidan). He has spent the last few years
playing country and blues with The
Longhorns and getting in touch with his early
interest in bluegrass music. He joined the Bridger Creek Boys for their
third
gig after having met them at various bluegrass jams in Bozeman.