New Year

Tommy Huff · From: Texas, USA

Hi, Just wanted to wish everyone a Safe and Happy New Year.........Tommy

Don Brown, Sr. · From: New Jersey

Hey Tommy,

Was you working with Don Lacy, the night I got so sick I had to be helped out the door before the show was over? What a night that was. Don't know what was in the Dr's. Script he gave me, but it wasn't good. Embarassed

You and yours have a Great New Year.

Don, Helen & family

Tommy Huff · From: Texas, USA

good to hear from you Don. I do not recall that night....refresh my memory what club was that......have a safe and happy New Year.....Tommy

Don Brown, Sr. · From: New Jersey

Tommy, I was thinking it might have been the Circle K? First, making sure you are the correct Tommy Huff who played bass for Don Lacy? Embarassed

Bo Borland · From: South Jersey -

Happy New Year to You Tommy and to Don & Helen too!

Don, that is the same Tommy from the Don Lacy band.

I played a while with them too all over south jerzey

Don Brown, Sr. · From: New Jersey

Hey Bo,

Thanks for that great shot.

From left to right, would the first one be you? Don Lacy is the second, and Tommy Huff is the fourth. The third & fifth look familiar, but I can't really place them?

Your input is needed.. Very Happy

"Happy New Year" to you and Tommy as well.

Thanks again Bo
Don

Bo Borland · From: South Jersey -

Don, i don't remember what year this was taken, best guess is between 79 and 82.

We were a bearded bunch of pickers.
L-R
Me, Don, John Paul Jones, Tommy, and Buddy Lee.
JP passed a couple years back. He was a Telly player like no one had seen around here. He was a big fan of Roy Buchanan and Les Paul and knew every trick there was.
I never knew Buddy's real name I'm suure Tommy does his kid brother dated Buddy's daughter.
We played the Lakeview, Golden Nugget, Double Nickle, The Western, and a couple other joints I'm sure you are familiar with.

Tommy Huff · From: Texas, USA

hi Bo, that is a great pic...and wern't we a handsome bunch.....some of us still are...HA,HA!!!! Buddy Lee's real last name was Lieberman...have not heard from him in about 23 years. That pic sure does bring back some memories...Tommy

Bo Borland · From: South Jersey -

HI Tommy,
I remember Buddy's wife's name was Dixie but I can't remember Brians girl friends name.

Also.. do you recognise the location of this pic?

Man, beards were really big back then.. so was thin !!
Doesn't Sharon look hot here!!..Actually.. she looked hot everywhere!!

Tommy Huff · From: Texas, USA

hi Bo....Bryan's girlfriend was Bunny.....and I believe that is the Circle W saddle shop.....am I right

Bo Borland · From: South Jersey -

I think you just might be right. I was not familiar with the place but it had that old wagon and Jim found it.

Don't you think Sharon looked hot? Laughing

Don Brown, Sr. · From: New Jersey

Bo,

I lost the thread and just found it. Very Happy

Yep! Lots of good memories, and many others in different places as well.

Helen asked me the other day, if I could do it all over again, what would I change. I told her if I had it to do over again, I wouldn't have changed a thing.

I don't know how it is now, but at one time, around the Tri-State areas, you couldn't get anymore places to do country than what there were on this side of the coast. So for me, it was all great times, and I'd suppose it was the same for you too.

When Joyce was doing top 40, that was a nice change, along with the Rock groups, and even a bit of Disco with a crazy bunch of folks, but it too was all good. So in reality, we had just about anything we wanted to venture into. Never any dry spells back then if you were willing, the jobs were there.

Did Sharon go by Sharon Lee, or is that another one? I like the hat. Smile

Tommy Huff · From: Texas, USA

yes Bo sharon was quite the beauty.....do you still keep in touch?.....and Don, you are correct the tri-state was a hotbed for country music all through the 70's, you could play 3,4,5 nights a week if you wanted.

Don Brown, Sr. · From: New Jersey

Tommy, you are right. Was you playing with Don, the night he had John Labunk playing lead? That's the night I was speaking of before. He had called him on the spot to fill in for possibly Richie Miller if my memory serves me right.

Time does fly past us and we don't know where it went. Great days though. All of them, and there sure were many. Smile

Anyway, in case I hadn't mentioned it, my pleasure working with you, the few times we did....

The other Tommy Huff I had you mixed up with in a previous post, was Tommy Huff from, Bear Delaware. His dad played one hell of a good upright Bass with Ivan Saxton. His son Tommy, was a drummer.

I worked with Cecil West, during the Rodeo's and will always remember him telling me about Ted Lundy's death. Cecil was one of the best fiddle players around, if you kept him sober. Smile

I kept him on the wagon. That was the deal between us. I liked him because he was so honest about his problem. He'd say, remember, keep me away from the bar, until the end of the night. Very Happy

Great times....

Charley Adair · From: Maxwell, Texas, USA

Hey Bo, my brother in Kerrville, Texas had a steel player in the 80's named Buddy Lee. Would this be the same one that's in the picture? Thanks,
Charley

Tommy Huff · From: Texas, USA

hey Don, do you remember a steel player I believe his name was BoBo Way or Wade. He was a real small guy and played a D-10 red Sho-Bud. he played with Don Lacy in probably the mid 70's. Ain't it ashame we lose touch with so many friends?.......Tommy

Bo Borland · From: South Jersey -

Tommy, i never knew Bobo but I did meet a few of the older layers over the years.
No, saddly I don't keep in touch with Sharon and haven't seen here for over 20 years. I hear she married had a couple kids after she stopped singing. She was a great natural singer but never ever knew what keys she sang in. She had to quit because of chronic inner ear infections.

Charlie, I don't think this Buddy Lee was the same one, this one was a time keeping drummer.

Don, I saw Ivan just a few weeks back, he had Leon Werkheiser playing upright. Ivan still has it and Leon is just great.
Sharon just went by Sharon Myers back then. I found her at the Lake View singing with Sonny Caudill and the Downhomers along with Jack Burris.

She was a sweet and very sassy babe.

Don Brown, Sr. · From: New Jersey

Tommy, you are right. So many we lose contact with, that looking back now, it would have been good to have a long list of everyone we met, (or worked with) and each of the band member's names too. And yes! It was 'BoBo Wade' as I recall.

We weren't fortunate enough to have a forum back then to meet up on. So it's good that we can share even a small portion of the great memories.
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Bo, Yes that's the name! Sharon Myers. Yes she was a good singer. I remember Sonny, telling me about this gal he found that would be working with him and Cecil (his brother) and he wanted me to come out and set in with them in Buena. I forget the name of the place now. Possibly just the 'Buena Tavern'? Anyway, the following week, they had Sammy Farside, playing steel. When I walked in, Sammy got up and I sat in with them, (on his Sho-Bud). We had a great time and the place was a packed house.

Also, going back to your other post. Yes I do remember, John Paul Jones, and Buddy Lee, as well. I didn't know them well though. Buddy Lee, was working the Golden Nugget, as I recall at the time I first seen him. And John Paul, may have been working with Ronnie Reeves when I first met him. If so, that would have been on Rt 54 at the 'Country Palace."

Old Memories are always great! Smile

Don

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