Hello there and welcome to our new website. We’re excited about the new look incorporating many of Mary Bruton’s great photographs and Kelly Shears’ candid shots, plus some old pictures and posters. We’ve added videos and band bios and a bloggish section which you’re reading now. We hope you will sign up for our email list so we can let you know when we’ll be coming to your area (when we can go anywhere, of course). Melissa Taylor at ekMEDIA.com has built this website for us.
The first order of business we need to take care of is this: You will probably discover either on the site or when we show up in your town, that Don Bennett is not standing behind me as he has for the past 40 years. Yes, this weekend it’s 40 years. I could joke and say I guess he finally just had enough, but he decided since COVID that he wants to be at home more than half the time and I cannot disagree with his decision. Being home has been wonderful. We have, so far, only played a couple of gigs live and I miss him. He is a brother to me.
I noticed some years ago that we would get in the van to take off on a trip and start talking and never run out of conversation. I only figured out after a while that it wasn’t me talking. Don has endless interests and stories. He has, for all these years, been the real band leader. And he can parallel park a trailer in New York City. So, for that first weekend in September of 1981 at a gig in Nacogdoches, Texas, with David Murray and Roddy Colonna and Craig Knudsen, all the way through to this weekend in Austin, staying home and staying safe, I want to thank Don Bennett for being there. Solid as a rock. Holding it together. My brother.