# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-stafford
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:39:22.342Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-stafford"
name: "Jim Stafford"
slug: "jim-stafford"
description: "James Wayne Stafford is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and comedian. While prominent in the 1970s for his recordings \"Spiders & Snakes\", \"Swamp Witch\", \"Under the Scotsman's Kilt\", \"My Girl Bill\", and \"Wildwood Weed\", Stafford headlined at his own theater in Branson, Missouri, from 1990 to 2020. Stafford is self-taught on guitar, fiddle, piano, banjo, organ, and harmonica."
tagline: "American singer-songwriter (born 1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jim_Stafford_1975.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1944-01-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.89
  momentum:             8.659629794584065
  historical:           6.254777333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0821299/"
    handle:    "nm0821299"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0CIdEoAG4j0tnC6IZsDr0q"
    handle:    "0CIdEoAG4j0tnC6IZsDr0q"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jimstafford.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/364865"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "جيم ستافورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "جیم ستافورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Stafford"
    title: "Jim Stafford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Stafford"
    title: "Jim Stafford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1e8071ac-3b84-4fc1-8ee5-a438a26879f7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1689224"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/934395"
    title: "Jim Stafford"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations