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The Bellamy Brothers
Tour starts June 2008
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Queens of Country
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Prefer your Country in the Traditional Style?
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The Smokey Mountain Boys are a Country and Western band in the traditional style.
They play country music from the 1940s to 1959.
Hank Williams, Hank Thompson, Hank Snow, Johnny Cash, Lefty Frizzel, early Jim Reeves, Lea Roy Van Dyke, Slim Dusty
Jambalaya, I Saw The Light, The Auctioneer, Pub With No Beer, I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You, , She Taught Me How to Yodel, Waiting For A Train, Yonder Comes A Sucker, Crazy Arms, Folsom Prison and Wreck of The Old 97
If this is your preference in country music then you should be booking The Smokey Mountain Boys.
The band are fully professional and will travel throughout the UK.
Early in the new year a new CD is scheduled for release.
"Sad Sober and Sorry The Depression Hits"
will feature a selection of songs around the standard country themes of Drinking, Lost Love and Cheating Hearts.
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Meet the Band:
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Hank Taylor, Guitar, Vocals
Hank started off his musical life in 50's Rock 'n' Roll.
His taste in country music is most definitly the early pioneers from the 30s through to 1959. The live show includes material from Hank Williams Snr, Hank Snow, Lefty Frizzel and now, with Steve on banjo a touch of Bluegrass.
Hank has been running The Smokey Mountain boys since 1995. In that time they have undergone several lineup changes. This latest in his opinion being the best.
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Mike Abbott, Bass, Vocals
A new recruit to the New Smokey Mountain Boys is bass player Mike Abbott. One of his first gigs with them was the 2006 Harlow festival . Over the past 30 years Mike has played most styles from Heavy Metal to Dinner Dance.
His Country Music experience ranges over 20 years and covers almost everything from Square Dance to Line Dance. You may well have seen Mike working at major festivals with some of Britain's top bands including The Amand Norman Sell Band, Henry Smith's Country Dreams, The Diesel Cowboys and Nashville Sounds.
The style of the New Smokey Mountain Boys takes him back to his roots.
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Steve Harrop, Steel, Guitar,Banjo, Mandolin, Dobro
Wakefield based Steve Harrop is the latest member of The New Smokey Mountain Boys. A highly talented multi instrumentalist He started off playing guitar way back in the 60s. Moving from a heavy rock band to an Irish showband introduced Steve to pedal steel, other instruments have been added along the way.
If Steve's face is familiar it could well be that you have seen him working with the Steve Hanks band or Henry Smith's Country Dreams amongst others.
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