The Robert Johnson of country, Hank Williams was a troubled visionary who hung around just long enough to change the face of American music forever. He added electric instruments and touches of Western swing and proto-rockabilly to the post-hillbilly…

Harmonica Frank Floyd was his own best caricature A hobo and refugee from the old Southern medicine shows who sang and played like a throwback from the 1920s he was as colorful as they come and a case could be made that without Frank there wouldnt ha…

Moe Bandy's barroom ballads made him one of the most successful country artists still carrying the honky-tonk torch in the countrypolitan 1970s. Neither a country outlaw nor a slick commercial artist, Bandy carved out his own niche before going the B…

b. John Bush Shinn III, 17 February 1935, Houston, Texas, USA. Bush sang and played guitar as an adolescent. He moved to San Antonio, Texas, in 1962 and was resident at the Texas Star Inn. He became a drummer and worked with Willie Nelson. Nelson, an…