Biography

The first time Jimmy Bivens played on a stage he had a
three-member audience that couldn’t even see him. “My
friends and I went to visit my dad at a club. He told me I
could get up on stage and play a song if I wanted,” recalls
Bivens. It was daytime and the stage was closed off
behind a heavy, velvet curtain. “I climbed up there and
kicked out a version of an old Conway Twitty song with
my buddies. I didn’t think that anyone could hear us, but
when we got done I heard a little bit of applause. I
peeked out from behind the curtain and saw my dad, the
club owner, and Tammy Wynette.”