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About The Smoked Mullet Band

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It was 1977 and Englewood was a lazy little town in Florida's west coast, inhabited mostly by fisherman and retirees. There was little opportunity for musicians to really get started until one day an unknown bass player named Ron Walshaw met a guitar-playing fisherman named Michael Van Norman. Finding music the common bond between them, they became immediate friends and teamed up with drummer Terry Hargis, from Boca Grande and another friend, Mike Coker, a fiddle player, from Shreveport, LA and formed the "Hey Diddle Fiddle Band". The band began to play around Englewood and Boca Grande and surrounding areas for the next few years while they got the feel of life together as a group. They played everywhere they could - Snook Haven, Capts. Club, Laugh A Lot as well as private parties. After a few more years, as Michael and Ron emerged as songwriters and the band's talent grew, they decided to rename the band The Smoked Mullet Band. In 1979 they recorded "Big Sardine", an original tune on the Outlaw record label.

In 1986 they were scheduled to play Calico Jack's True Value Country Showdown when, tragically, Michael Van Norman was killed in a boating accident. The Smoked Mullet Band members were devastated. Ron promised Michael's father that he and the other members would keep the band going because it was what Mike would have wanted.

Shortly after Michael's death the members brought Bob Taylor into the band, a talented guitar player and vocalist from the same area. Bob had been a friend of the members in Smoked Mullet and often sat in with the band. As fate brought them together, Bob now handles the guitar and lead vocalist role. Over the years many talented players and pickers have moved in and out of the band. With the most recent addition of lead guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Richard "Tex" Cheroff to the, "Mullet Band", as the it has become to be known, the band has emerged as a powerful musical force throughout the state of Florida.

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