Inductees for 2023 are Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmie Vaughan, Sly and Family Stone (Dance to the Music), Roger Miller, Jim Collins (Damn Strait), Selena Gomez, Buddy Magazine's Stoney Burns and Ron McKeown and Dallas Guitar Show's Jimmy Wallace, Mark Pollock and Charley Wirz.
Each year DSA invites Rising Stars from local music schools to perform with the highly acclaimed BYO band. Rounding out the program will be DSA members and BYO band members performing songs. Schools of music please contact Bobby Montgomery. DSA Members contact Barbe. BYO band contact Michael B.
We invite you to join us on April 15 at 7pm at Love and War to see these incredible performers honor or 2023 inductees. Come hungry and plan to order dinner. The food is wonderful. The show is free.
Roger Miller
Miller won fourteen Grammy Awards and a Tony Award among many other awards. Miller died from lung cancer in 1992 and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame three years later.
Engine #9 - #7 1965 - Rio King - DSA Member
Medley - King of the Road - #4 1965 - Dang Me - #7 1964 - Wayne Willingham - DSA MemberJim Collins
Jim Collins was born in 1956 in Nacogdoches, Texas. He was a favorite around Dallas in early 90's where the Jim Collins Band played local country dance clubs including Borrowed Money and Crystal Chandelier.
Jim’s numerous hit singles are a great example of this consistency, quality and diversity. Jim’s hits include the multi-week #1 smashes “Big Green Tractor” (Jason Aldean), “Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven” (Kenny Chesney), and “Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not” by (Thompson Square), which was iTunes “Country Song Of The Year” and Country Aircheck’s #1 “Country Song Of The Year” in 2011. Jim was also nominated for a GRAMMY® in the “Best Country Song” catagory for “Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not.” In 2019 “Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not” was named as one of the top 5 songs of the decade by Country Aircheck.
In 2015, Jim co-wrote (Easton Corbin’s) “Baby, Be My Love Song,” which climbed to #1 in the Music Row charts and was one of Billboard’s most played country songs of the year.
Chart success is nothing new for Jim, a native of Nacogdoches, Texas. Among his numerous #1 songs is the co- written smash, “The Good Stuff” which was a seven-week #1 for (Kenny Chesney) in 2002, and was named Billboard “Song of the Year,” ASCAP “Song of the Year” and “Single of the Year” by the Academy of Country Music.
Jim’s next number one song was courtesy of his fellow Texas native and country music legend, (George Strait), who took “It Just Comes Natural” to the top of the charts for four weeks in 2006. That same year, Jim was nominated for a GRAMMY® for “Best Country Song” with “I Don’t Feel Like Lovin’ You Today” performed by (Gretchen Wilson).
Other hit singles written by Jim include “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy” (Kenny Chesney), “Then They Do” (Trace Adkins), “Hands of A Workin’ Man (Ty Herndon), “Love Workin’ On You” (John Michael Montgomery) and the multi-week #1 “Yes” performed by (Chad Brock). This is in addition to the Top 40 singles, “That Song In My Head” (Julianne Hough), “I Can Sleep When I’m Dead” (Jason Michael Carrol), “God Must Really Love Me” (Craig Morgan), “In My Next Life” (Terri Clark), “They Call It Fallin’ For A Reason” (Trisha Yearwood), “While You’re Still Young” (Montgomery Gentry), “Wanna Make You Love Me” (Andy Gibson), “Hauled Off And Kissed Me” (Steve Holy), “How It Still Oughta Be” (Trent Tomlinson) and “Pound Sign” by Texas artist (Kevin Fowler).
In 2022, Jim is still cranking out the hits, with his 3 week #1 song in Billboard, “Damn Strait” by (Scotty McCreery).
Jim has had over 250 of his songs recorded by major country music stars, including Carrie Underwood, Reba McIntire, Tim McGraw, Keith Urban, Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley, Dustin Lynch, Rodney Atkins, Lee Brice, Chris Young, Little Big Town, Zac Brown Band, Joe Nichols, Ronnie Dunn, LeAnn Rimes, Ashley Monroe, Darryl Worley, Kenny Rogers, Lonestar, Dwight Yoakum, Mark Wills, Don Williams, Ronnie Milsap, and many others.
As the songwriter behind some of country music’s biggest hits of the last four decades, Jim Collins is pure and
simply a hitmaker. He is a member of the Texas Songwriter’s Hall Of Fame and a two-time GRAMMY®
nominee who has written songs that have launched careers for new artists and created peak moments for
some of country’s biggest superstars.
Sue Schildt & BYO Band
It Just Comes Natural - (Marv Green, Jim Collins) recorded by George Strait's 41st #1 2008 grammy nominationClaire Causey & BYO Band
Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez was born in Grand Prairie, Texas July 22, 1992. She started acting, landing her first spot on the Barney & Friend show in 2001. Following those two years, she starred in two Disney shows. In 2008, Gomez signed with Hollywood Records and began work on her debut pop album “Kiss & Tell”, which was released in 2009. She was quite busy in the coming years, including the 2013 film “Spring Breakers”, 2015 Album “Revival” and the 2020 album “Rare”. Selena Gomez has boldly gone public with her battle with Lupus, which has drawn broad praise. She has been a longtime supporter UNICEF and became an ambassador in 2009. She also works to help the world’s children through her C.A.N. (charity, action, now) initiative.
Stephen Ray Vaughan was born in 1954 in Dallas and raised in Oak Cliff attending Kimball High School. Vaughan began playing guitar at age seven, initially inspired by his elder brother, Jimmie Vaughan. In 1972, he dropped out of high school and moved to Austin, Tx. where he began to gain a following after playing gigs on the local club circuit. Vaughan joined forces with Tommy Shannon on bass and Chris Layton on drums as Double Trouble in 1978 and established it as part of the Austin music scene and soon became one of the most popular acts in Texas. He performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1982, where David Bowie and Jackson Browne saw him play which resulted in Browne offering him recording time at his studio in LA and Bowie contacting him for a studio gig that resulted in Vaughan playing blues guitar on the album Let’s Dance in 1983, before being discovered by John Hammond who talked Epic Records into signing Vaughan and his band to a record deal. Within months, they achieved mainstream success for the critically acclaimed debut album Texas Flood. With a series of successful network television appearances and extensive concert tours, Vaughan became the leading figure in the blues revival of the 1980s. Playing his guitar behind his back or plucking the strings with his teeth earned fame in Europe. Vaughan struggled with alcoholism and drug addiction but successfully completed rehabilitation and went back to touring with Double Trouble. His fourth and final studio album In Step reached number 33 in the US in 1989; it was one of Vaughan's most critically and commercially successful releases and included his number-one hit, "Crossfire". He became one of the world's most highly demanded blues performers. On August 27, 1990, Vaughan and four others were killed in a helicopter crash after performing at the Alpine Valley Music Theater in Wisconsin. Vaughan's music continued to achieve commercial success with several posthumous releases and has sold over 15 million albums in the US alone.
Although his mainstream career spanned only seven years, he is regarded as one of the most influential musicians in the history of blues music, and one of the greatest guitarists of all time. In 1994 the city of Austin, Texas, erected the Stevie Ray Vaughan Memorial on the hiking trail beside Lady Bird Lake. Vaughan won five WC Handy Awards and was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2000. Family Style, recorded with his brother, Jimmie, and released shortly after his death, won the 1991 Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album and became his best-selling, studio album with over a million. Vaughan was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.
Jimmie Lawrence Vaughan was born in 1951, in Dallas, Texas and raised in the Oak Cliff area. Jimmie attended L V. Stockard Junior High where on February 3, 1965, he first played before an audience in a group named The Pendulums along with Phil Campbell and Ronny Sterling. They played six nights a week at Dallas’ Hob Nob Lounge. In 1966 he joined the Chessmen in Dallas which also included Doyle Bramhall on drums. In 1969 Jimmie moved to Austin and with Doyle they formed a band known as Texas Storm and later the group opened for Jimmie Hendrix in Fort Worth. It was at this show that Vaughan lent Jimi his Vox Wah-Wah pedal which Hendrix ended up breaking. In return, Hendrix gave Vaughan his own touring Wah-wah pedal.
Jimmie Vaughan developed his own easily recognized personal style and in 1974 he formed the band the Fabulous Thunderbirds with lead singer and harp player Kim Wilson, bassist Keith Ferguson and drummer Mike Buck. The original Fabulous Thunderbirds made Austin’s blues club Antone’s their home base but they also toured nationally and opened shows for artists like the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton. They also released many albums during Jimmie’s time with the band that are considered significant blues recordings.
Jimmie Vaughan left the Thunderbirds in 1990 to record a long-awaited album “Family Style” with his brother Stevie Ray Vaughn, The album was light, blues-influenced rock, with Jimmie Vaughan singing on several tracks. After Stevie Ray’s tragic death, Jimmie pursued a full-time solo career that continue to be very successful. He currently still lives in the Austin area with his family.
Boon Bapa Boom - 1994 (Jimmie Vaughan) - Ian Dickson & BYO Band - DSA Member
Sly Stone -
Over the past 20 years, Stone has been hard to track down - becoming mysterious in multiple ways. On the flip side, his mental health may be a bit unstable. He used to live in a sprawling 4 bedroom mansion in Beverly Hills, but now resides in a white camper-van in Los Angeles.
Buddy is a free monthly music magazine serving North Texas. It was first published in 1973 as a free bi-monthly by Stoney Burns with Seals and Croft on the cover. Stoney Burns was a pseudonym of Brent Lasalle Stein who previously took up the Burns name in the late 60’s to avoid embarrassing his family or fathers clients when he became part of the counter-culture of Dallas and the underground press. When Burns realized that no one was covering the local music scene, Buddy Magazine was born. The magazine's name is a tribute to Buddy Holly who Burns said "changed my life." Buddy is described as a rock music magazine but, from its beginning, has included news and feature articles about performing artists and events of other genres, namely Texas progressive country, blues, jazz, folk, punk, and garage band music. Writers for Buddy magazine who covered the blues scene in the Dallas-Fort Worth area helped resurrect the career of Zuzu Bollin and introduced mainstream music fans to notable regional blues artists, including jazz guitarist Roger Boykin, blues singer R.L. Griffin and the late pianist Boston Smith. Buddy chronicled many performing artists before the emergence of their first albums, including, in 1975, Ray Willie Hubbard, who was already popular as a Texas progressive country artist. In 1975 Buddy had a circulation of 40,000 which grew to 100,000 by 1979.
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