Ron Cobb (bass guitar):

Bass guitarist Ron Cobb is from Boulder, CO, and has played with Michael Martin Murphy and Doug Kershaw. Ron Cobb grew up in Detroit and began studying music at age seven.  After high school, he wrote commercials and played and produced recording sessions for Detroit artists.  He performed with local bands, Motown musicians, Reprise Record’s Spike Drivers and played on Dick Clark’s Cavalcade of Stars tour.  Leaving Detroit, he played and recorded with several bands in the Bay Area, Doug Kershaw, Michael Martin Murphey, Jerry Jeff Walker, Carol King, and Hammerhead Lincoln.

Ron has turned down two gold records, is unaware of any Grammy nomination, and has done more Jerry Jeff radio interviews than Jerry Jeff.

Ron’s musical influences include Detroit Motown/Funk/Jazz as well as Detroit C&W music from folks coming to work in the auto factories.  There was also good R&R and psychedelic rock.  Mr. Ron Cobb reports that  “ I was into all of it!”

Working with Jerry Jeff Walker was his favorite because of how tight the band members and road crew were, and that Jerry Jeff let you play however you wanted.

Ron tells us that he wrote songs but the only ones that got airplay were commercials for beer, body lotion, and a pizza place.  One song with an early band got airplay in Detroit.

A special remembrance from his time working with Jerry Jeff Walker was the US Festival in 1982 in San Bernadino, California.  There were 400,000 people in attendance and that helped make for an incredible experience, performing their music for people who loved it!

Ron now does whatever he wants or whatever his wife tells him to do. He plays and records with some rehearsal bands as long as they don’t do gigs.  He does perform live at church and currently spend hours studying piano so that he can play like Reese. 

Mike Hardwick (steel guitar):

When original steel guitarist Leo LeBlanc left The Bandito Band, he was replaced by Mike Hardwick.

Dave Perkins (guitar):

“When I was 13, I put down $35 at a pawnshop on Philadelphia’s South Street and took home a Harmony arch-top guitar (painted sparkle gold).  When I bought the guitar it was not with aspirations of becoming a great player.  It was more about self-expression and trying to write songs.  A decade and several guitars later, however, I developed enough skill that folks began to see me as a “guitarist.”  Since then, I have enjoyed the privilege of recording and/or performing with a number of America’s great popular music makers.

Link to full bio: http://listentodaveperkins.com/bio/

Bobby Rambo (guitarist):

Bobby Rambo is a veteran musician, producer, recording artist, music publisher and three-time Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter.

Born in Dallas, Texas, Bobby has toured the world over. He is a member of the Rock-a-Billy Hall of Fame and has recorded and played with Jerry Lee Lewis, The Five Americans, Gene Summers, Scotty McKay, Ronnie Dawson, Jerry Jeff Walker, B.W. Stevenson and Carole King to name a few.

Link to source: https://www.benedettoguitars.com/player/bobby-rambo/

Freddie Steady Krc (drums):

Texas Music Awards Hall-of-Famer Freddie Steady Krc comes by his name honestly. This singer / songwriter / guitarist / drummer / renaissance Texan has plied his musical wares around the world the past few decades. A charismatic live performer, Krc wins over any audience with his captivating original songs and engaging stage presence. He also enjoys capturing the spirit of his favorite cover songs. Krc (rhymes with search) landed in Austin at the moment that a musical revolution was getting started at a styles-don’t-matter joint called the Armadillo. The kid and the town were a perfect match.

Link to full bio: https://www.freddiesteadykrc.com/

Tomas Ramirez (saxophone):

Austin's "Jazzmanian Devil", was born Tomás Almendarez Ramirez in Falfurrias, Texas in 1948. Ramirez began playing clarinet in his early childhood years and encouraged by his Uncle Wally, he began playing in bars at age 13 wearing a fake mustache. He learned his tenor saxophone chops from his uncle Wally and after Tomás graduated from high school, he studied under Dick Goodwin at the University of Texas at Austin where he toured with the UT Jazz Ensemble throughout Mexico in 1971. Two years later, he joined the Lost Gonzo Band backing Jerry Jeff Walker and began to widen his range of performance and reputation with such groups as Beto y los Fairlanes, Tommy Hancock’s Supernatural Family Band, Christopher Cross, and the Texana Dames.

Link to full bio: http://bit.ly/3AHgFDL