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A country-rock performer from Beaumont, TX, Rick Henderson provided the “Dixon” in the rock and roll combo moniker Mason Dixon, predicated on the half-and-half combination of North and Southern origins in the band’s founding regular membership. Henderson fulfilled Yankee Frank Gilligan, a indigenous New Yorker, while these were both in …

Jerry Dengler (b. 29 Might 1955, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA), Frank Gilligan (b. 2 November 1955, Queens, NY, USA) and Rick Henderson (b. 29 Might 1953, Beaumont, Tx, USA). Mason Dixon may be the brainchild of three graduates of Lamar School in Beaumont, Tx. They documented their combination of folk …

Mason Dixon was a rock-tinged nation band in the ’80s that was formed by NY local Frank Gilligan and Texan Rick Henderson, who all adopted the band’s name in tribute with their mixed North/Southern roots. Both met in university during the middle-’70s and began experimenting southern Texas jointly; in 1979, …