This is a live recording from 2010 of Jeffrie A.K.A. Jimmy James and Dwin Bodden playing at Tabyana Beach on West Bay beach on the island of Roatan. Jeffrie has recently gone on to jam up in heaven and we are releasing this finally in his memory. He and Dwin had a special connection in many ways. The music they made, the harmonies, the soulful way they knew each others inflections and phrasing, made for an entertaining afternoon of non-stop excellent music that had you moving and on your feet no matter who you were.     They had hours and hours worth of material and have entertained 10's of thousands of cruise shippers in their heyday. Jeffries gravely soulful voice makes the material feel deep and both of these gentlemen are basically self taught and learned from the generations of James family musicians. Jeffrie played left handed and so learned on an 'upside down' guitar. He is dearly missed as Dwin carries on the Happy Boys legacy. My name is Patty McCulla; I am also a musician and lived behind their beach gig for a couple of years, got to know and love them and realized they could be selling CDs to tourists at every show (these guys played from 8am until 4pm!) so I went over with a CD burner and basically plugged into their sound system and hit the on and off button capturing their live mix. It was almost impossible to get the song names and artists so some are probably incorrect. There are two original songs but every song is such a unique interpretation that I know in my heart that any musician would be happy to have their song covered so beautifully.

Queenlighthead