High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jimmy LaFave (born July 12, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter and folk musician born in Wills Point, Texas, a small farming community located near Dallas. At a young age, LaFave's family moved to the Dallas suburb of Mesquite, Texas where he attended junior high and high school. By the early teens LaFave was making music perched behind his Sears and Roebuck drum kit. It wasn t long before his mother traded a drawer full of green stamps for his first guitar and the switch to singer- songwriter was in progress. His family later moved again - this time to Stillwater, Oklahoma - where LaFave completed high school.