Billy Mata receives AWA Western Swing-Album/CD of the year

Billy Mata's newest cd "This Is Tommy Duncan" received the prestigious National Academy of Western Artists Western Swing CD of the Year. Mata is also a previous recipient of the AWA's Western Swing Male Vocalist. You will want to make sure to download your copy of this wonderful cd at www.buckatune.net

Billy Mata & The Texas Tradition provides entertainment for true country music traditionalists as well as a new generation of Western Swing enthusiasts. Billy has been performing 30 years for audiences. His followers and enthusiasts range from traditional Honky Tonk listeners to Western Swing dancers. No matter who the audience is, all enjoy the energy and spirit of the musical talent of the performance.

The band is made up of some of Texas' strongest professional musicians with a combination of more than 165 years of musical experience. This includes strong lead vocals by Billy Mata and features true country fiddles, honky tonk steel guitar and true Western Swing style electric guitar that would make Eldon Shamblin proud. The guitar, bass and drums rhythm section are the 'real deal' - making it almost impossible to sit down when you could be dancing. The style of music played is from Bob Wills, Johnny Bush, Mel Tillis, Ray Price, as well as the popular sounds of Asleep at the Wheel, Jerry Jeff Walker, Robert Earl Keen, and many more!

Billy has also made several guest appearances with the Texas Playboys at Western Swing Festivals in Nocona & Snyder, Texas and Hobbs & Ruidoso, New Mexico. Some other same stage performances include: Asleep At the Wheel, Darryl McCall, Earl Thomas Conley, Eddie Raven, Emilio, John Conley, Johnny Rodriquez, Randy Travis, Ray Price, Rick Trevino and many special guest appearances with Leon Rausch, Tommy Allsup & The Texas Playboys.

Christmas In Ol' San Antone

Bobby Flores and Dicky Overby have created an outstanding Christmas cd, featuring some favorite christmas songs.Dicky and Bobby waited a long time to record this special Christmas album together. It was recorded entirely in one day at BGM Studio in San Antonio. It's several of the Christmas favorites done in traditional Country style, lots of fiddles & steel, and it's very unique. Excellent work also by Jake Hooker on upright bass, Jim Loessberg on drums and Randy Reinhard on piano.

Tracks include: Away In A Manger, O Come All Ye Faithful, O Holy Night, Silent Night, Joy To The World, Silver Bells, O Little Town Of Bethlehem, What Child Is This, In Excelsis Deo, and First Noel.

You will definately want to add this your Christmas cd collection. You can listen to tracks and download the cd at www.buckatune.net

New Spur Band mp3 tracks available at www.buckatune.net

Bill Hudgens & The New Spur Band is a Group of very seasoned musicians that have many years of experience between them. All of the musicians have played with a lot of top groups in the state of Missouri. They have all done openers for some top national acts and played onstage for some major stars as well. They bring to the stage professionalism and some fine Americana Honky Tonk music sure to please dancers and listeners as well. One of their many original songs is featured here on this site. See why they are a major draw at the venues they play. Bill Hudgens is the lead singer as well as M.C. and rhythm guitarist. Earl Knapp Jr. is the Lead guitarist and does second vocals and harmony. Dewayne (Dewey) Nichols on Bass guitar and Spot & does harmonies. JR Davis is the groups heartbeat on the drums. (Reprint from http://www.myspace.com/thenewspurband)

Download mp3 music tracks at www.buckatune.net

Red Kilby "Keepin' It Real"

Red Kilby's cd "Keepin' It Real" is now available at www.buckatune.net

Now he's done it, really done it! Red Kilby had this irrational idea he could go to Texas and get some of his musical heroes from the past together; steel players, guitar players, and others. Then to make matters worse he even imagined he could cut a real, genuine country album just like we used to record in the 1960's. Talk about Paranoia!

Evidently, the world is madder than I suspected. He did it. Red got Ralph Mooney, Jerry Brightman, Dicky Overbey and me, Lloyd Green, to play steel on various songs-some of which Mooney and I are infamous for- added the great Redd Volkaert and Junior Knight on Electric guitars and Dale Morris on fiddle. To sweeten the pie he put Jeff Williams on piano, Dick Dunn on drums and Reggie Brown on bass, then had Joe Bielinski produce all these guys, with Robert Snyder engineering and mixing the music. Red Kilby, the man with the dream who thought he could make this happen is, of course, the singer, with occasional harmony from Jake Hooker. Mooney sounds just like the "Moon" I used to love listening to in the late 1950's and 1960's, while Brightman takes one of the classic Weldon Myrick solos on "I'll Come Runnin" and recreates a masterpiece in his own brilliant style. Overbey is splendid, adding great color, emotion and playing to a number of these tunes. I played the solo on "Crystal Chandeliers" that I never got to play on the Charley Pride "Live At Panther Hall" album. This is the solo I meant to play. Really I did, Red.

This first song on the CD "That Bakersfield Sound" will please and surprise everyone, while later Brightman and I combine our efforts on the Billy "Crash" Craddock song, "I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door".

It'll take you a long time to absorb all of the good steel and other music on the CD, so get prepared for some of the finest shuffles and country recordings to come down the road recently.

"By the way, I guess I shouldn't have doubted that Red Kilby could pull this off. When he wanted one of the world class muscle cars, he became the proud owner of "Ginger", an award winning, mint condition 1969 Dodge Charger R/T. And yes he plays the 1969 8-track tape of "Live At Panther Hall" in this show piece." Lloyd Green-Steel guitar

(Reprint with permission from http://www.redkilby.com/real.htm

Recent Buckatune Additions

Jake Hooker releases new cd "Lost Along The Way"

Texas native Jake Hooker just released a great new cd called "Lost Along the Way". Jake is excellent and the musicians are superb. You won't want to miss this one!Download the cd or individual tracks at www.buckatune.net

Tracks include:
Lost Along The Way / Talkin' 'Bout You / Drowning My Troubles Till They Learn How To Swim / Night Coach Out Of Dallas / Don't Give Up On Me / It's Warm With Love In Here / Another Town / It Keeps Slipping My Mind / Nothing Left To Lose / You're From Texas / Mine Is A Lonely Life / Rodeo Man

Musicians include:
Acoustic Guitar: Jimmy Capps
Bass: Bob Moore
Bass Guitar: Jim Loessberg
Fiddle: Bobby Flores
Drums: Jim Loessberg
Guitar: Pete Wade
Piano: Pig Robbins
Steel: Paul Franklin
Harmony Vocals: Amber Digby & Tommy Hooker
Guest Vocalists: Leon Rausch & Jody Nix

Light Crust Doughboys on Buckatune

Buckatune is pleased to announce the addition of the Light Crust Doughboys to www.buckatune.net The first cd has been added with more to come!

The Light Crust Doughboys are considered the longest-running country and western band in the world and one of the top historical bands of all time!

The history of the Grammy Award-winning Light Crust Doughboys covers more than seventy years of American music. In 1929, Texas fiddler Bob Wills formed the "Wills Fiddle Band". By 1931, Wills, along with Milton Brown on vocals and Herman Arnspiger on guitar, landed a morning radio show sponsored by the makers of Light Crust Flour. The general manager of the flour company and soon-to-be announcer of the band was W. Lee "Pappy" O' Daniel. Although Pappy went on to become Governor of Texas, United States Senator from Texas, and the only person to ever defeat Lyndon B. Johnson in any political race, when asked what he was most famous for, he replied, "The Light Crust Doughboys!"

The original Light Crust Doughboys are credited with the creation of the western swing style of music, which blends a wide range of musical repertoire including country, blues, jazz, pop, gospel and more. By the 1940s, The Light Crust Doughboys' Show was broadcast on more than 170 radio stations throughout the south and southwest. The famous opening words, "The Light Crust Doughboys are on the air!", are still used to this day to open all concerts by the The Light Crust Doughboys. The band today enjoys a faithful worldwide following that spans four generations of music lovers.

Since 1993 alone, The Light Crust Doughboys have been featured artists on dozens of different projects now available in CDs, videos, songbooks with CDs, and vinyl albums. Since 1997, The Light Crust Doughboys have received multiple Grammy Nominations for best albums in their fields, winning The Grammy in 2003 for the album on Art Greenhaw Records, WE CALLED HIM MR. GOSPEL MUSIC: THE JAMES BLACKWOOD TRIBUTE ALBUM.

Led by Grammy Award-Winning musician and producer Art Greenhaw on bass guitar and vocals, The Light Crust Doughboys in various combinations include such virtuoso instrumentalists and singers as Maurice "Reece" Anderson on steel guitar, Kevin Bailey on guitar, Jim Baker on violin, Dale Cook on drums, and oftentimes Doughboy legends Jerry Elliott on guitar and John Walden on violin. A Light Crust Doughboy brass and reed ensemble is even added for select events, concerts and balls. The Light Crust Doughboys have played prestigious festivals throughout the United States, have toured Austria, and make frequent television appearances. Current Light Crust Doughboys have over 150 years of combined experience playing in The Light Crust Doughboys band. The Light Crust Doughboys were named The State of Texas' Official Music Ambassadors by the 74th Texas Legislature, are Texas Commission on the Arts' official touring artists, and are inductees in the Texas Cowboy, Texas Western Swing, Rockabilly, Texas Music, and Cowtown Society of Western Music Halls of Fame. In every personal appearance by The Light Crust Doughboys, the band pays tribute to its legacy by honoring the musical contributions of Bob Wills, Milton Brown, and especially, Marvin "Smokey" Montgomery, a Light Crust Doughboy from 1935 until his passing in 2001.

The Light Crust Doughboys are considered the longest-running country and western band in the world and one of the top historical bands of all time. To quote THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS, "The Light Crust Doughboys are to western swing what Bill Monroe is to bluegrass. When the ultimate western swing and Texas music book is written, The Light Crust Doughboys will be in Chapter 1, Page 1."

(Reprint with permission from http://www.artgreenhaw.com)