Jim McCarty

Jim McCarty
Jim McCarty in Basingstoke, 2008
Background information
Birth name	James Stanley McCarty
Born	(1943-07-25) 25 July 1943 (age 73) Walton, Liverpool, England
Genres	Blues rock, psychedelic rock, progressive rock, hard rock, folk rock
Instruments	Drums, Vocals, Guitar
Years active	1960s–present
Associated acts	The Yardbirds Renaissance Shoot Illusion Pilgrim

James Stanley "Jim" McCarty (born 25 July 1943) is an English musician, best known as the drummer for The Yardbirds and Renaissance. Following Chris Dreja's departure from The Yardbirds in 2013 McCarty became the only member of the band to appear in all of its incarnations.

He was born at Walton Hospital in Liverpool, England, but his family moved to London when he was two years old. He attended Hampton School in Hampton where Paul Samwell-Smith was a fellow pupil. When playing with the early Yardbirds, he worked as a stockbroker in .

McCarty has performed and recorded with the Yardbirds, Together, Renaissance, Shoot, Illusion, the Yardbirds reunion band Box of Frogs, Stairway, The British Invasion All-Stars, and Pilgrim, as well as under his own name and as the Jim McCarty Band. Since 1992 he has been playing with the reformed Yardbirds.

(1963-1968, 1992 to date)

(1968)
Together was the name of a duo formed by Keith Relf and Jim McCarty which released one UK single in November 1968 as Columbia Records DB 8491 -

produced by fellow former Yardbird Paul Samwell-Smith and arranged and conducted by former Shadow Tony Meehan. One further track from the Together sessions in June 1968 has appeared on Yardbirds compilations -

(1969-1970)

(1973)
Shoot were -

They released one album on EMI records in 1973, On The Frontier. The track listing was as follows (all tracks written by McCarty unless otherwise shown) -

Produced by Ian McLintock
Additional Personnel -

(1977-1979, 2001)

(1984-1986)

(1987-1995)

(1995-1996)
Pilgrim were

They released two albums -

All music by James McCarty, all lyrics by Carmen Willcox
Track listing -

Keyboards - Matthew Hammond, Clifford White (programming), Paul Miller
Guitar - Dugald Brown
Bass - Loui Cennamo
Drums & percussion - James McCarty
Cello - Julie Palmer
Accordion - Andy Thomas

All music by James McCarty, lyrics as shown.
Track listing -

Most of McCarty's recordings have been issued under the names of the group he was in at the time, but he has also released two solo CDs -