PIONEERS, SIDEMEN

& LESSER KNOWN ARTISTS

• Andy Schroder
• Alton Baird (Cavaliers/Moonlighters)
• Hoyle & Ben Nix & The West Texas Cowboys
• Ben Hall (Ben Hall Studio/Buddy Holly/Circle 4 Ramblers)
• Bennie Brosh & The Sundowners
• Bill Armstrong (The Eagles)
• Bill Aylor & The Esquires
• Bill Dees (The Five Bops/Roy Orbison)
• Bill Graham (Glen Campbell/Crew Cats)
• Bill Madre (Lefty Frizzell/ Little Big 4)
• Bill Mack (Solo)
• Bill Myrick & His Rainbow Riders
• Billy Briggs & The XIT Boys
• Billy Thompson & The Melody Cowhands
• Blackie Crawford & The Western Cherokees (Lefty Frizzell)
• Blaze Foley
• Blue Sage Boys (Slim Willet)
• Bobby Dixon
• Bobby Earl Smith(performer/attorney)
• Bobby Hacker
• Bobby Rountree (Drovers/Drifting Ranch Hands/Cavaliers)
• Bob Montgomery (Buddy Holly)
• Bob Tuttle (Gilleys/Urban Cowboy Band)
• Brenda (Dutton) Martin (Country Rimshots)
• Buck Ramsey
• Buck Sutton (Rhythm Bandets)
• Buck Trent (Show Stoppers/Porter Wagoner)
• Carl Bunch (Crickets w/Waylon Jennings/Poor Boys)
• Carolyn Hester
• Charlene Arthur
• Charlie Dalton (Rhythm Bandits/Cavaliers)
• Charlie Phillips
• Charlie Timms
• Clark Wynne(Clark Wynne Orchestra,Melody Men, San Angelo Cowboys)
• Clyde Hankins (Clyde Hankins Trio)
• Clyde Stacey (Holly/Nughtcaps)
• Coy & Raymond Moses
• Curtis Potter (Hank Thompson)
• David Box (Ravens/Crickets)
• Dean Beard & The Crew Cats
• Don Guess (Rhythm Playboys with Buddy Holly)
• Donnie Duncan
• Don Tosti (Band Leader/Musician/Writer)
• Don Walser
• Don Webb
• Dub Adams
• Dugg Collins
• Durwood Haddock
• E.W. Esensee
• Earl Sinks (Crickets/Holidays)
• Ed Dunlap
• Elroy Dietzel & The Rhythm Bandits
• Eugene Dunn (Father Of Ronnie Dunn)
• Frank Trevino (Corvairs)
• Freddie Franks (Drifting Ranch Hands)
• Freddie Silas (Cavaliers)
• Gary/Ramona Tollett (back-up vocals Buddy Holly)
• Gary Hudman & Southern Comfort
• Gary Swafford &The Solutions
• George Atwood (Gene Krupa/Buddy Holly/Waylon Jennings)
• Gilbert Deanda
• Gilbert Loika & The Wayside Playboys
• Glen Harden(60’s Crickets/Elvis Presley)
• Glen Whitworth & The Country Showman
• Gordon Payne
  (Crckets/Tanya Tucker/Waylon Jennings)
• Grady Lee Nutt
• Grainger Hunt (The Believers)
• Grant Turner (Non-performer)
• Hal Goodson & The Raiders
• Harry Bray (Twix-Tween Records)
• Henry Hunsinger (Alan Jackson)
• Hop Elam
• Hope Griffith
• Howard Higgins
• Jack Huddle
• Jack Neal (Buddy & Jack/ Holly)
• Jack Triplett
• Jack Vaughn (Norman Petty Trio)
• Jack Teagarden (Louis Armstrong/Benny Goodman)
• Jay Boy (James) Adams
• Jerry Hodges (Red Stegall/ Checkmates/Ray Ruff)
• Jerry Tatum
• Jim Chestnut
• Jimmie Fletcher & The Drifting Ranch Hands
• Jimmie Short (Short Bros/Ernest Tubb)
• Jimmie Simpson & The Oil Field Boys
• Jimmy Carl Black (Mothers of Invention)
• Jimmy Cooper (Rocxgarden)
• Jimmy Dale Gilmore
• Jimmy Peters
• Jim Robinson
• Jim Wynne (Clark Wynne Orchestra /Cavaliers /Mirror)
• Jody Nix (West Texas Cowboys/ Texas Cowboys)
• Joe Bob Barnhill
• Joe Ely
• Joe King Carrasco
• Joe Melson (Midland Cavaliers/Rhythm Bandits)
• Joe "Red" Hayes (Farron Young)
• Joe “Sonny” West
• John Maberry (Sirs/Cavaliers)
• Johnny Dutton & The Western String Billies
• Johnny Griffin
• Johnny Moore & The Jones County Opry Band
• Johnny “Peanuts” Wilson (Teen Kings)
• Johnny Thurman & The Phantom Rider Trio
• John Samples
• John Schuch
• Junior Pelzel & The Country Showman
• Justin Resley (Classical)
• Kelly Spinks
• Kris Carter
• L.C. Agnew
• La Donna Gatlin (Gatlin Brothers/Tammy Wynette)
• Larry Butler & The Sunset Playboys
• Larry Mashburn (Shade Tree/ Rocxgarden)
• Larry Trider (60’s Crickets)
• Larry Welborn (Four Teens/Buddy Holly)
• Lee Patterson
• Leon Short (Short/Bros/Ernest Tubb)
• Lewis Elliott (Rhythm Bandits/ Cavaliers)
• Little Bill Walker
• Little Joe Martin (Foxx/Rocxgarden/ Pepper Martin)
• Long John Hunter and the Walking Catfish Band
• Lydon Landers & Knights Inn Playboys
• Lynn Massey (Neal McCoy)
• Maggie Scales
• Mansell & Louis Tierney
• Marilyn (Massey) Whitworth (son Lynn Massey)
• Max Barton (Swing Kings/Flashback)
• Miss Billie (Allford) (Drifting Ranch Hands)
• Monty Holmes (Lubbock)
• Nat Kelly
• Nolen McLeery
• Omar Rodriquez-Lopez (producer/performer)
• Paul Davidson
• Paschal Williams & The Raschals
• Pat O’Neal
• Pepper Martin
• Phil Ochs
• Poor Boys (Richard Porter/Eddie Williams Bob Hardwick/Ronnie Smith/Carl Bunch)
• Ralna Eve English (The Lawerence Welk Show)
• Rick Sikes (Rhythm Rebels/Dean Beard)
• Robert Alvis (Joe Sun/Cornbread/Kentucky/Cole Younger/Solid Investment)
• Robert Robin Brown (The Panhandle Cavaliers/3 Notes/Swing Kings)
• Roland "Snake" Atkinson(Cavaliers/Sirs/15th Street Blues Band)
• Ramona Locke
• Raymond Bynum (bandmaster)
• Ray Ruff & The Checkmates
• Ringo Garcia
• Ringo Garza Sr. (Los Falcones)
• Roger “Pappy” Blythe
  (Jim Reeves/ Ray Price/ Jimmy Dickens/Pepper Martin/L C Agnew)
• Ronna Reeves (Statler Brothers TV)
• Ronnie Blackwell
  (Buck Trent/Cavaliers/Porter Waggoner/Osbourne Bros/Ernest Tubb)
• Ronnie Price (Buddy Knox)
• Ronnie Smith
• Ronnie Warner
• Roxy and Judy Gordon
• Roy Thackerson (Fingerless Fiddler)
• Royce Porter
• Sammy Duncan & The Country Kings
• Sammy Lara & The Sky Tones
• Shorty Boyd & Buck Trent(Show Stoppers/Porter Waggoner)
• Sid Holmes (Wayland Chandler/ Billy Kidd/ Cavaliers)
• Snuffy Smith & The Snuff Dippers
• Sonny West
• Southern Cross
• Sparta (Jim Ward Tony Hajjar Keely Davis)
• Terry Manning (producer-recording engineer)
• Terry Mashburn (Rocxgarden/Shade Tree)
• Terry Noland (Four Teens)
• Terry Wayne
• Texas Gold (Ronna Reeves)
• The Blackburn-Shaw Quartet
• The Blatz Western Melody Boys (Ernest Tubb)
• The Bowman Brothers
• The Brushcutters (Slim Willet)
• The Cavaliers (Tommy Ruble/Alton Baird/Jerry Naylor/J.Frank Wilson)
• The Circle 4 Ramblers
• The Coleman County Boys
• The Dillingham Sisters (Craig Dillingham)
• The Hired Hands (Slim Willet)
• The Hollyhawks (Niki Sullivan Gene Evans)
• The Page Boys (Richard Van Vliet-Ronnie Hill-Mark Kaye-Tom McCarty)
• The Picks (Bob Lapham Bill & John Pickering)
• The Prairie Dogs (Byron Williamson)
• The Roses (David Bigham Robt Linville Ray Rush)
• The Sirs (John Mayberry)
• The Sparkles
• The Starlight Sisters (Ann, Mary and Teenie Harper)
• The Teen Kings (Roy Orbison)
• The Trebleaires
  (Dixie Fambrough, Gayle McNerlin & Mary Ann Kent Ben Hall Studio)
• The Westerners (Lefty Frizzell)
• The Williamson Sisters (Double Dip Girls)
• The Wink Westerners (Roy Orbison)
• Toby Yeager (Jerry Naylor Jackson/Cavaliers)
• Tom Russell (singer/songwriter)
• Tommy Allen
• Tommy Allsup(Crickets w/ Waylon Jennings, Texas Playboys)
• Tommy & Charlene Hancock
• Tony Guerrero
• Troy Jordan & The Cross B Boys
• Van & The Melody Boys
• Virgil Owen (The Sundowners)
• Wayland Chandler (Texas Tumbleweeds /Cavaliers)
• Weldon Myrick (Grand Ole Opry band/Jones Co. Opry)
• William “Bill” Griggs (WT music historian)
• William "Diggy" Bell (Cole Younger/ Pepper Martin)
• Willie Luedecke
• Woody Guthrie