Don Walser & the Pure Texas Band

b. Donald Ray Walser, 14 Sept 1934, Brownfield, Tx, USA, d. 20 Sept 2006, USA. This singer-songwriter and professional yodeller was also known as the ‘Pavarotti from the plains’. He performed traditional nation music from his early teenagers, and was instrumental in making sure the music of legends such as for example Bob Wills and Elton Britt had not been forgotten within an period blighted by anodyne nation pop performers. Walser was raised in the tiny farm city of Lamesa near Lubbock, and by his early teenagers was functioning on the Lamesa Natural cotton Oil Mill along with his dad. A brief spell in the essential oil fields implemented before Walser elected to focus on a profession with the Country wide Safeguard, with whom he previously enrolled at age 15. He transferred to Midland along with his family members but continued playing music in his free time. In the first 60s he became a member of the Tx Plainsmen, a normal operating man’s country take action who, for two years, kept down a slot machine on the neighborhood KJBC radio train station. During this time period Walser released a single single, ‘Rolling Rock From Tx’. He later on moved to Un Paso where he performed within a trio known as the Un Paso Amigos. Walser relocated to Austin in 1984 where, along with his operating existence winding down, he founded a residency along with his Pure Tx Music group at Henry’s Pub & Barbeque grill. He also go about documenting new materials with composing partner J. Pat Baugham, liberating the outcomes on three individually released cassettes. This materials was later on released by Walser’s fresh record label, Watermelon Information, within the Archive Series albums. Pursuing his retirement from your Country wide Safeguard Walser finally obtained some lengthy overdue acknowledgement when he teamed up with Ray Benson, the co-founder of traditional western golf swing revivalist’s Asleep IN THE Wheel, release a 1994’s Rolling Rock From Tx. The recording was extremely praised because of its refusal to kow-tow to any contemporary trends, a position characterised by Walser’s peerless yodelling. Tx Top Hands (1996) and Down IN THE Sky-Vue Drive-In (1998) repeated the method, combining Walser originals with nation standards from many decades. The second option was his main label debut and designated something of the bittersweet success for a guy who was rejected by Nashville in the first 70s to be as well old-fashioned. In 1999, Walser released his initial Nashville documenting, Right here’s To Nation Music, including duets with Crystal Gayle (‘We Could, You And I’) and Teddy Wilburn (‘Arkansas’). Exactly the same Oct Walser finally surely got to sing on the Grand Ole Opry. He retired from live executing in 2003 and passed on due to problems from diabetes on Sept 2006.