Jim Reynolds has been on the music scene since the mid-eighties. In 1987, he co-founded the popular local band Wishful Thinking with his school friend Norm Stalker. His rock-solid bass playing, performance energy, and distinctive vocal style made him an essential part of the band throughout its fourteen-year reign. Besides being a member, he also worked as the band' s manager, taking care of promotion, booking, set lists, and song selection.

With Wishful Thinking, he has played a number of Live Radio concerts including: PYX 106 Night with Mason & Sheehan, WBEC 105.5 Sunday Night Live, a live Summerfest Broadcast on WSBS, as well as their Sunday Live program. He shared the stage for events and performances with such local artists as David Grover and Shenandoah, The Bluestars, Steve Ide, and Arlo Guthrie. One of the highlights of his music career was warming up for Janis Jopin's former backing band Big Brother and the Holding Company. He has performed at the Pittsfield's annual Live At The Lake concerts and many other local events and venues.

While ensuring Wishful Thinking's success, Jim also worked on a number of side projects with local friends and musicians including Sammy Brown, the Jason Webster Band, the Rev Tor Band, Matt Mervis, Chris Collins, and Tom Ingersoll. He has played bass on a number of local CD projects including Tom Ingersoll's Breakfast (1997) and Crunch (2003) , Jason Webster's Sundays and Everything Else (1999), Todd Mack's Yonder The Big Blue Holler (2005), and Jude Mead's On The Loose (2008).

In 2002, Jim formed local "super-group" P.I.M.P. with Randy Cormier, Jason Webster, Dale Zavatter, and Mike Basiliere after a successful impromptu performance together at Eastover Resort. The band plays a regular schedule of gigs there and at a number of local bars and venues, including a once-a-month performance at the Dalton Depot.

In 2007, after becoming disillusioned with the waning local music scene, Jim established a new music endeavor called Wildcard. This "band" is really a showcase of local talented musicians and a way to promote live local music. Reynolds explains: "The concept is to assemble three other local established players (a drummer, a guitarist, and keyboard player -- or possibly two guitarists) and myself and converge on a place for an impromptu night of music. The four of us would see what material we all know collectively, create a set list, and become a band for the night." The players will be any number of the 45 local established musicians who have signed on to the project. Musicians will be scheduled to fit each type of venue and these musicians have decades of experience playing in the area in all types of situations. The result is a unique and extraordinary musical experience.

He is presently putting the finishing touches on his first solo CD, Somewhere Near The Big Tree, to be released in the summer of 2008. In the future, Jim hopes to continue to create and play music and to strive to enhance the local music scene.