Biography
Richie
Albright, Jerry Bridges, Fred Newell, and Eugene Moles easily classifies
as one of the best bands ever assembled in the history of country music.
Add Tommy Townsend and you have a chance to put country music back on
the right track. A chance to right all the wrong turns it has taken
over the past few decades. This is "Outlaw Music" made by
Waylon, Willie, Haggard, and Cash when they were at the top of their
game. This is the best "Outlaw Band" this country has ever
produced. In ?65, Waylon took Nashville by storm and changed Music City
forever. When you hear this band you will realize things are about to
change again.
- Dale Martin, New Braunfels
Herald
The
band includes Waylons original drummer and right-hand man Richie
Albright who began playing with Waylon and the Waylors in 1964 and toured
and recorded with him for decades. He produced his first movie soundtrack
for Roy Rogers MacIntosh & TJ film, the music for the first
series of the Dukes of Hazzard TV show and produced several
albums on Waylon, Jessi and many other friends over the past 30+ years.
He most recently recorded and toured with Jessi Colter.
Bridges,
who spent 24 years on the road with Waylon, will continue to play bass
and tour manage Waymores Outlaws. A native of Red Bay, Alabama,
Jigger strongly was influenced by the R&B emerging from nearby Muscle
Shoals. Following a four-year stint as a staff musician at FAME Recording
Studio, he moved to Nashville and began working with Waylon on the Dukes
of Hazzard soundtrack. After contributing bass work on the Waylons
Greatest Hits album, Waylon asked him to join him on the road.
Fred
Newell is a bona fide veteran of the Nashville studio scene who has
recorded with everyone from Ray Charles to George Strait. In addition
to being the staff lead guitarist on numerous TV shows including Nashville
Now, he is respected worldwide for his ability to generate feeling and
sounds out of his instruments that many struggle to emulate without
success. The first country guitarist to ever receive an endorsement
from Marshall Amplifiers, Newell is a guitar legend in many circles.
He is unique in that he is considered not only a legendary guitarist,
but also one of the top steel players of all time.
Lead
and rhythm guitarist Eugene Moles was surrounded by the Bakersfield
Sound via his father Gene Moles, Roy Nichols, Merle Haggard, Buck
Owens and others. In 1976 Haggard asked him to play guitar until Nichols
recuperated from an illness. He joined Buck Owens and the Buckaroos
and played on numerous Hee Haw shows. He moved to Nashville
in 1987 to be more involved in the recording process and later worked
at the Grand Ole Opry for 10 years with Del Reeves.
A
native of Blairsville, Georgia, Tommy Townsend had the rare distinction
of being mentored by Waylon. Waylon was a pivotal force in Townsend's
life, and the two collaborated several times over the years, with Waylon
playing and singing harmony on some tracks and even co-producing a full
album on Tommy with Jigger Bridges. Many times Waylon and band would
take Tommy under their wings and into the studio, and occasionally,
out for an appearance on the road.
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