04-15-2023, 12:04 PM
Buddy just notified me that the Reverend Cosmo T. Clown, aka Jim Babcock, has left this earthly coil and truly joined the Cosmos at large. Many older Jimbillies well remember Jim's gentle humor, bodacious dobro picking, infamous musical seances with the Jimtown Prehistoric Jugband, psychedelic sorties into the unknown, fabulous balloon animals, presiding over many local marriages, christenings, and beer-crackings. He was also a well loved preschool and elementary teacher and deeply knowlegible blues scholar. He was the prelate for a group of nefarious group of semi-misfits known as the Deacons who will have to go back to remedial bumpercar school in his absence. Lift a few to him, he will be missed and revered as long as there is a spark of life left in the heart of Jimtown. SvH