Br5-49 - Me and Opie Down by the Duck Pond - Original Band

HISTORY: --

Before moving to Nashville and forming BR5-49, Chuck Mead played in a band called Homestead Grays, a roots-rock outfit based in his hometown of Lawrence, Kansas. Gary Bennett, meanwhile fronted an informal band that played at Robert's Western Wear, a clothing store in Nashville, Tennessee, when he met Mead at a nearby bar.[1] The two then decided to form a band officially, and completing the lineup were electric bassist Jim "Bones" Becker, then upright bassist "Smilin'" Jay McDowell (formerly of another band called Hellbilly), multi-instrumentalist Don Herron, and drummer "Hawk" Shaw Wilson. They assumed the name BR5-49 from the telephone number of a used car dealer in a running Junior Samples comedy sketch on the television series Hee Haw,[1] and began playing for tips at Robert's before being discovered by Arista Nashville in 1995.

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[VSincere]

If you don't like these Redneck hillbillies, you don't like music

[crashmaster57]

@VSincere Please see my other channel if you've not already seen it. Just type in "BR549channel" in the search window and it will show the videos of some super (one of a kind) rare stuff I recorded at 'Robert's Western World' when i lived in Nashville and the band had just started! thanks,

Dave

[GhostFearMe]

heard this on the john boy & billy big show!

[TheInvincibleViolet]

Great ; Very funny :) Thanks for posting !!!!