James Walter "Jim" Rodford (born 7 July 1941) is an English musician who played with The Kinks, The Swinging Blue Jeans and was a founding member of Argent. Rodford played in The Animals II for two years, leaving to join the reformation of The Zombies in 2001; he also works with a group of former Kinks members, in The Kast Off Kinks.Rodford was born in St Albans, Hertfordshire. In the late 1950s and early 1960s he was a member of The Bluetones, the biggest band in St Albans at the time.