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Revision as of 22:02, 22 June 2012
James McKinney was a member of the bluegrass group Danger in the Air, a regional bluegrass band based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Among its members was founding member of the Dixie Chicks, Robin Lynn Macy.
From a young age, McKinney began performing and competing. He won the South U.S. Banjo Championship at the age of 15. He moved to Nashville where he played with Opryland's "Bluegrass Show" and started a career as a studio musician. He made his debut at the Grand Ole Opry at 19. In 1982, he won the National Banjo Championship in Winfield, Kansas. In two other years' competitions, he rated third place. He Toured for a few years with the Legendary fiddler Vassar Clements.
He relocated to the Dallas area in the 1980s where he joined Danger in the Air. When the band dissolved, McKinney moved to Nashville in 1990 where he continued to perform using the band's name until 2003. He moved to Atlanta Georgia in 2008 and currently performs with Niki Portmann and David Dugas in a group called "Howling Tree" and also teaches at banjo workshops around the country.