UPCOMING 2024 JIM KNABLE GIGS Saturday, January 24, 2025 at Jalopy Theater in Brooklyn - Pre-Release Party!

Monday, April 28, 2025 at Cowgirl Seahorse, South Street Seaport Manhattan

THE NEW JIM KNABLE & THE RANDY BANDITS ALBUM IS COMING FEBRUARY 14, 2025!!! Learn more here

Welcome to the online home of Jim Knable, playwright, singer-songwriter, fiction-essay-review writer, hailing from Sacramento, California, now living in Brooklyn, New York.

His plays have been seen all over the country; his songs have been heard all over the world. He also writes articles, profiles, and reviews.

WHAT IN THE WORLD HAS JIM KNABLE BEEN UP TO?

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"American Antihero" is released as the first single from Jim Knable & The Randy Bandits' PALE FIRE album. And here's the music video for it:
Watch Jim singing and dancing with the band at Porch Stomp 2024 on "People Change"

Check out the surprise YouTube hit

"Ladies of New Jersey" is a song by Jim Knable with a slide show music video by Joey Yow, music engineering by Jay Buchanan, created for Luna Stage Voting Writes Project, 2020


JIM KNABLE SONGS OF YORE

BLUE REUNION, the fourth Jim Knable & The Randy Bandits studio album came out in 2020-21 and features almost all original group members and the hit single "I'm Not a Bad Guy" GOLDEN ARROW, the second Randy Bandits album with songs written and mainly sung by Jim Knable is available for free/suggested donation download now!

REDBEARD, the first full length Randy Bandits album now streaming on Bandcamp. Enjoy for the 1st or 501st time!

THE LOST JIM KNABLE AND THE RANDY BANDITS ALBUM SURFACES. Discover GREEN MAN!


PEOPLE INTERVIEWING JIM

LONG AUDIO INTERVIEW FEATURING 6 SONGS ON "Give and Take" with Scott Jones.

PODCAST INTERVIEW WITH SONG PERFORMANCES: Scott Jones of Mockingcast interviews Jim about songwriting, playwriting, and everything else, featuring 4 songs performed live in the studio.

INTERVIEW: Adam Szymkowicz interviews Jim Knable about his current projects, childhood, and heroes.

A PREVIEW and INTERVIEW in the Orange County Register for the 2016 GREEN MAN production.

RADIO INTERVIEW: Jim Knable's interview on the Franklin Raff Radio Show in Chicago about Leonard Cohen, The Randy Bandits, and his various masks.



Golden Arrow, by The Randy Bandits, out now.

”Bouncy and brave, Golden Arrow finds the Bandits in all their awesome glory. With songs written by vocalist/guitarist/saxophonist Jim Knable and arranged by the rest of the crew, this is a record that is boundlessly fun to listen to and impossible not to clap along with.“
—Jordan Richardson, Blogcritics Magazine