The Chris Hicks Band:

Chris Hicks has been brandishing his style of rock and roll since his teens. Whether it was in his early groups - Legacy, the Fresh Figs and Loose Change - or with southern rock legends the Outlaws and the Marshall Tucker Band... or as a solo artist, The Hitman has captivated audiences with his netherworld vocals, arena echoing axmanship and his freight train harmonica playing. He's a compelling songwriter of the first order. He's Toy Caldwell and Ronnie Van Zant rolled into one. He is southern rock royalty - and if anyone doubts that, I challenge you to catch his act... for it is the stuff legends are made of!

www.friendsofchrishicks.com/

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The Southern Boys Band:

Quite literally they are a "Band of Brothers". The band consists of 4 brothers, Wayland, Kenny, Justin, and Kevin Bailey. The boys grew up being inspired by their Uncle George McCorkle of the Marshall Tucker Band. The newest member of the band is their cousin Justin McCorkle (son of George McCorkle). The also features the phenominal guitarist Jeff Roberts. Last, but not least, is Jason "Dixie" Gooch on guitar. Jason went to high school with the Boys.

The boys have been very blessed to share the stage and become dear friends with some of Southern Rocks greatest musicians including: Jo Jo Billingsley (Lynyrd Skynyrd Band), Gary Allen (Charlie Daniels, JJ Cale), Tommy Crain (Charlie Daniels Band), Dennis and Donnie Winters (Winters Brothers Band), Lewis Ross (Wet Willie Band), Dangerous Dan Toler (The Allman Brothers, Gregg Allman Band), Pat Ellwood, Chris Hicks, and several other members of Marshall Tucker Band, Artimus Pyle (Lynyrd Skynyrd Band), Harley (Coconut) Lamoureux (Legendary Southern Rock Harp Player), Jimmie and Jane Van Zant (Southern Rocks Royal Family), and the list goes on.

"The Southern Boys Band remind me of the early days touring with Marshall Tucker, CDB, and Skynyrd, the real deal".. Gary Allen (Charlie Daniels Band and JJ Cale)

"From the first moment meeting these guys you feel magic surrounding them. Then once you see them play, you remember what music is all about".... Southern Fried Magazine

In 2007 the boys all came together with their friends to perform a tribute to George McCorkle who passed away on June 29th of cancer. They dazzled the audiences at both MusiFest and Jam4George.

The Band also features several honorary members who perform with the boys every chance they get: Jo Jo Billingsley, Coconut Harley, and Bruce Wall. For more info go to:

www.SouthernBoysBand.com

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Donnie Winters:

Donnie Winters was raised in a music family. His dad Don Winters was a great singer,and sang back up and toured with country legend Marty Robbins for years. Growing up, Marty was like an uncle to Donnie and his brother Dennis. Marty even recorded 10 of Donnie and Dennis' songs. Donnie and Dennis would later start up the popular Winters Brothers Band that toured along side bands such as the Marshall Tucker band and Charlie Daniels playing festivals and arenas aound the country. In April of 2000 Donnie took his engineering skills to the famous Sutler where he worked as the house soundman. He would often get onstage with his dobro or guitar to join in with some of the music city's best songwriters. When the Sutler closed it was a sad day, but it was good news for many because Donnie Winters the guitar player was back.. With his all star band. When he's not with his band you can catch him playing with the great Joe Sun, Davis Raines & The Faders, Teddy Larkin & Scary Wagon, The Reigning Hounds, David Lee Slate and lots of other great acts in Nashville.

www.myspace.com/donniewintersmusic

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Jo Jo Billingsley:

Gold and platinum albums, world tours, everything money could buy. These are things you would expect from being a member of the original Lynyrd Skynyrd Band, one of the most successful rock bands of the 1970’s. Singing for crowds as large as 250,000, she lived the glamorous life of a rock & roll star. She seemed to have it all…yet something was missing. Through truly divine intervention Deborah Jo was the only one of the members who was not onboard the final fatal flight when the group’s chartered aircraft crashed into a remote forest in Deborah’s home state of Mississippi, killing 6 people . “ God gave me a dream two nights before that the plane was going to crash. I did what I could; I warned them… I knew later God had spared my life ,but I did not know why.”

www.JoJoBillingsley.com

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Dangerous Dan Toler:

A member of such bands as Dickey Betts & Great Southern, The Allman Brothers Band, The Gregg Allman Band, The Toler Brothers Band, and the Dan Toler Band. In December, 2001, Dan once again teamed up with Dickey Betts, joining the Dickey Betts Band which soon became Dickey Betts & Great Southern.

Dan began writing music in the 1960's and continues to compose to this day. His album cuts list is extensive. Dan has come some commercial composing and devotes increasing time to this.
Dan credits many musicians as influences; Chet Atkins, Lonnie Mack, Steve Cropper, Larry Carlton just to name a few. He's had the privilege to share the stage with B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Carlos Santana, Steven Stills, Bonnie Raitt, Charlie Daniels, Hank Williams JR., Matt "guitar" Murphy, the late great Wayne Bennet and countless others.

Dan has followed his natural path into record production. He gains great satisfaction from this production work and says it allows him to utilize all his talents and experiences. Dan is an advocate for the resurgence of and the respect for the skilled musician. He recalls the time when it was all about "the sound and not the look." He has been gratified to see the fans enjoying this back to basics music.

When not touring or producing Dan calls Florida's Gulf Coast his home. He and his wife Debby have a married daughter Danielle in Nashville. Dan's Brother David (Frankie) Toler lives in Indiana.

www.dantoler.com

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Jay Boy Adams:

A well-known name on the Texas scene is making exciting new music. Jay Boy Adams, who toured with ZZ Top, The Band, Jackson Browne, The Marshall Tucker Band, Joe Cocker and other arena-filling acts in the 1970s and 80s, is back with a new album, The Shoe Box. The new CD has already become a Top Five hit at Americana Radio and also spawned an extensive tour as special guest for the legendary Stephen Stills, not only opening the show, but also playing some guitar and singing back-up vocals as part of Stills’ band.

The independent Rockin’ Heart/Smith Entertainment Records release represents the first new music from the West Texas native in several years. The album also features guest appearances by Lee Roy Parnell, Jack Ingram, Marty Stuart and Asleep At the Wheel’s Ray Benson.

Jay Boy Adams’ music has always represented a resonant mixture of country, rock and blues, while remaining steeped in tradition. A native of Colorado City, Texas, in the South Plains of West Texas, Adams grew up with the same influences that fueled the music of Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Terry Allen and Butch Hancock, all of whom hailed from nearby Lubbock. Earlier West Texas musical icons such as Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison and Bob Wills also left their mark.

Adams toured from coast to coast with some of the biggest names in the business, but he continued to live in Texas, where he felt grounded, and where artistic inspiration lay always close at hand.

But then, in 1982, Adams got off the merry-go-round and left the music business behind. “My brother-in-law used to tell a story about a man from our hometown who was married to a real mean woman for about ten years,” he recalled. “One day she sent him to the grocery store for a loaf of bread. That was 20 years ago and she’s still waiting for the bread. That’s what happened to me. I just disappeared.” But he never left the music itself behind - just the spotlight.

It was country singer/songwriter Lee Roy Parnell and J.W. Williams (an old friend from Texas Tech University and Lone Wolf Management) who encouraged Jay Boy to get back on the stage again. In March of 1997, Parnell invited Adams to join him onstage on the spur of the moment at a show in San Antonio. Adams found himself with a guitar in his hands, facing a concert audience for the first time in five years, and his love for live performance was re-kindled. Soon after that show, he decided to back home, dust off the cobwebs and get back to work.

Whether performing solo at a songwriter’s showcase or with his power-packed touring band The Roadhouse Scholars, Jay Boy Adams’ gift for telling a story through song will gratify both longtime fans and those discovering Adams and his music for the first time.

www.jayboyadams.com/

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Monica Perry:

Houston born-and-raised, Monica Perry has her roots deep in the Texas soil. The great-granddaughter of a Texas Ranger of the 1890's and a 5th generation Texan, she grew up with a true love of country music and everything that being a true Texan entails...from fast horses to great beef brisket barbeque. She stared playing fiddle at 11, and by age 15 she was playing and singing in bands all over Texas. She has performed with, to name a few, Patty Loveless, fiddle great Johnny Gimble, Clint Black, Fiddlin' Frenchie Burke, Bob Hope and Gary P. Nunn. Now a Nashvillian, she spends her time co-writing with a multitude of great writers and musicians. She is currently working on a solo album to be released soon!

www.monicaperry.com

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"Coconut" Harley Lameroux:

"I was born in Jacksonville, Fla. Grew up went to school with several members of Skynyrd. Played in a band with Leon (Thumper) Wilkeson. I play Harmonica and have appeared on stage with multiple Groups. Southern Rock, Country, Blues, Jazz, & Gospel. I freelance with many artists. My most recent appearances are Charlie Daniels Band, Candy Coburn, Southern Boys, Chris Hicks (Marshall Tucker Band), Winter Brothers, A C Myles, Charlie Allen and many other

www.myspace/coconutharley

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Beth Raebeck Hall:

She with the smoky pipes, sounding as she's been stewed in a potluck of Etta James Rocks the House and East Bay Grease. A 2003 Grammy nominee for Best Contemporary Blues Album, Beth Raebeck Hall's Mississippi Delta canned heat has earned raves from industry legends, Rocco Prestia, George McCorkle, Barrett Strong, Jimmy Hall and XM radio’s Jessie Scott. Promoters welcome her with open arms and newcomers The Minor Kings, the Mulch Brothers and many others look to her as a mentor and co-writer. -Blues Revue Magazine says ”Raebeck could light a city with her energy, and she has a great set of pipes” Ron Wynn of the Nashville City Paper's described her sound as "a female version of Delbert McClinton meeting Etta James and Carole King at the crossroads." ”

Ms. Hall is the lifeblood of postwar Southern blues. She embraces life with a contentment that comes only with surviving life’s many challenges, some even devastating. With the same groove fever she’s always had, she could give lessons in performance energy and delivery. An almost mythic figure in the Nashville music scene, Hall created the Tin Pan South brand, organized talent for the first festival and was picked Best of City Stages among many other honors. She's even performed for the President of Normandy. If you ever catch this woman in the flesh, she's a firecracker of unbridled energy. Her stage presence recalls Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings with a flick of purebred boom -chigger pluck.

Her new EP, Somethin' Goin On might be her finest record to date. Produced by 26-year-old wunderkind Miles McPherson at Kosmodrome, Somethin' Goin On is a rich tapestry of wall-of-sound soul and scorched earth funk. The title track is fearlessly political in tone. With syncopated thumps and a slab of deep-fried melisma, Hall twists the knife on the Bush administration. "I'm thinking of sending this track to Obama," she jokes.

www.myspace.com/braebeckhall

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I am very blessed to work for, perform with, and be friends with a lot of my heroes. I get to hang out with members of some of the greatest Southern Rock/Classic Rock bands of all time. I manage, sit in with, and consider my extended family the Southern Boys Band (Justin, Wayland, Kenny, Kevin, J'Mac, and their ladies) - I Love You All!!. I have 5 kids that are the light of my life. I have a wife that puts up with all my dream chasing, lol. I have to thank some of my dearest friends - George McCorkle, JoJo Billingsley, Harley, Dan Toler, John Townsend, Chris Hicks, Doug Gray, The Van Zant Family (Jane, Jimmie, etc), Mike Kinnemon, Monica Perry, Candy Coburn, and all the other friends, for allowing me to be a part of so many wonderful things, I have been blessed to play guitar with members of Marshall Tucker, Skynyrd, etc. I host several Southern Rock events, a Magazine, radio station, and over 40 websites. But, most of all I am blessed to have all ya'll support me. But my biggest thanks goes to God for making it all possible. A few years back I was diagnosed with Cancer. It really made me re-think my life. Thanks to the man upstairs, it turned out to be a bad case of Valley Fever and not cancer. Since then I have been trying to give back the folks who's music got me thru it all.