I’m Tony, and these are my September, 2010 picks…

A Boy Named Sioux–Devil Made Their Blue Jeans

A Boy Named Sioux is from Tempe & Flagstaff, Arizona, playing Southern Rock, Country & Americana Music. They’re a 4-man group, consisting of Rob Toner on lead vocals & acoustic guitar, Jayson James on vocals, fiddle & acoustic guitar, George E. Lee on vocals & lead guitar, & Eric Gilboe on bass & vocals. They have 1 cd out called “The Next Big Thing”, from which I chose the song “Devil Made Their Blue Jeans” as their contest entry. For more info on A Boy Named Sioux, visit their MySpace page, www.myspace.com/boynamedsioux31, or their website, www.aboynamedsiouxaz.com…

Adam Grant & Robert E (AKA Badhorse)–That’s Just How I Roll

Adam Grant & Robert E. (aka Badhorse), are from Newnan, Georgia, playing Southern Rock & Country Music. They’re a 6-man band, consisting of Adam Grant on lead vocals & guitar, Robert E. on back-up vocals and acoustic guitar, Charlie Gilbert on lead guitar, Mike Deems on bass guitar, Chris Mathis on drums, & Joel Bridges on keyboards & back-up vocals. When I first got permission to play these guys, they were just known as Adam Grant & Robert E., and that’s the name of the cd I got from them, from which I chose the song “That’s Just How I Roll”(extended mix) for their contest entry. They’ve since changed their name to Badhorse, and are working on a new cd. For more info on them, visit their MySpace page. www.myspace.com/randaproductions…

Bretheren Sol–Rescue Me

Bretheren Sol is from Ahwatukee, Arizona, playing Americana, Rock & Roots Music. They’re led by Eric Malmstrom on lead vocals & guitar. Their song “Across The Desert” from their “Devil’s Rope” cd was the winner of the 2008 Hossey Music Awards Song-Voting Contest. I decided to bring them back this month with another song from that cd “Rescue Me Dear Mr. President”, which is a song addressed to President Obama. If you’d like to see the video of that, check out my MySpace blog, dated July of 2008. For more info on Bretheren Sol, visit their MySpace page, www.myspace.com/bretherensol, or their website, www.bretherensol.com..

Chatterton–A Good Place To Start

Chatterton is from Ft. Worth, Texas, playing Rock, Indie, & Texas Country Music. They’re a 4-man band, consisting of Kevin Aldridge on vocals & guitar, Austin Woodrow Morgan on guitar & vocals, Ryan McCauley on drums, & Paul Bryant on guitar & vocals. They’ve just released their debut EP cd called “The Cold Open”, from which I chose their song “A Good Place To Start” as their contest entry. For more info on Chatterton, visit their MySpace page, www.myspace.com/chatterton, or their website, www.chattertonmusic.com…

Cory Mitchell & The HonkyTonk Heroes–Private 1st Class

Cory Mitchell & The HonkyTonk Heroes are from Nederland, Texas, playing Texas Country, Acoustic, & Americana Music. They’re a 4-man band, consisting of Cory Mitchell on lead vocals, Joey Danna on lead guitar, Colton Durham on bass guitar, & Ryan McClintock on drums. They’ve just released their debut, self-titled cd, from which I chose the tear-jerker song about the Iraq war “Private 1st Class” as their contest entry. For more info on them, visit their MySpace page, www.myspace.com/corymitchell…

Randy Rogers Band–Damn The Rain

Randy Rogers Band is from Austin, Texas, playing Texas Country Music. They’re a 5-man band, consisting of Randy Rogers on vocals & guitar, Brady Black on fiddle, Geoffrey Hill on guitar, Les Lawless on drums, & Jon “Chops” Richardson on bass. They have 4 cds out now that were all produced in Austin by Radney Foster at his studios there. The band traveled to Nashville to produce their latest cd “Burning The Day”, which just came out this last week and has already been added to the HTB rotation. I chose their song “Damn The Rain” as their contest entry. For mor info, visit their MySpace page, www.myspace.com/randyrogersband, or their website, www.randyrogersband.com…

Robert Shores Band–So He Rode

Robert Shores Band is from Holdenville, Oklahoma, playing Blues, Country & Southern Rock Music. They’re a 4-man band, consisting of Robert Shores on lead vocals & acoustic guitar, Boone Griffin on bass, Steve Smith on drums & back-up vocals, & Mickey Billy on lead guitar. They have 1 cd out now called “Life Of Sin”, from which I chose the song “So He Rode” as their contest entry this month. For more info on them, visit www.myspace.com/robertshoresband…

Scarlet–Pills

Scarlet is from Corpus Christi, Texas, playing Texas Country & Pop Rock Music. They’re a 7-person group, fronted by Monica, Lauren & Chynna Carrion on vocals & guitars, their brother Ray Carrion on bass, Charles Longoria on lead guitar, Mason Shirley on guitar, & Evan Enderle on drums. They’ve come out with 1 4-song EP cd called “The Scarlet Band Sneak Peek” after leading the worship services at Corpus Christi’s mega-church Bay Area Fellowship for the last 7 years. The band says it will donate 50% of the profits from this cd to “help ease the pain & suffering of others” through donation to various organizations. For more info on Scarlet, visit their MySpace page at www.myspace.com/officialscarletband, or their website, www.scarletband.com…

Sunday Morning Headcount–Downpicking

Sunday Morning Headcount is from Lafayette, Lousiana, playing Rock & Metal Music. They’re a 4-man band, consisting of Shane Andrepont on lead vocals & drums, Jason “Birdman” Landry on guitars & vocals, Sean Keating on keyboards & vocals, & Flint Zerangue Jr.on bass. They have 1 cd out now called “SMHC”, from which I chose the song “Downpicking” as their contest entry this month. For more info on them, visit their MySpace page, www.myspace.com/sundaymorningheadcount, or their website, www.sundaymorningheadcount.com…

The Fire Men – California Sun

The Fire Men are from Los Angeles, California, playing Urban Rock, Alternative & Soul Music. They’re a 4-man band, consisting of Eric K on guitar, Shane S on vocals, Skinny Richie on drums, & Jaimo on bass. The Fire Men just sent me their debut, 8-song, EP CD called “California Sun”, which is not available in stores, yet. I’ve chosen the title track of their cd for their contest entry, since they have a special guest drummer on that song, Micky Dolenz of The Monkees. Remember them? For more info on The Fire Men, visit their MySpace page, www.myspace.com/thefiremenmusic…

About Me:

I got started in broadcasting during my stint as a Signalman in the U.S. Navy during the Viet Nam era, working part-time as a DJ and newsman for a ship-board Armed Forces Radio & TV station on the USS Truckee out of Norfolk, Virginia.  After being honorably discharged in 1979, I became a mainstream radio DJ and News Director in the Corpus Christi area for over 25 years on 9 different stations, including all 3 of the country-western ones. During that time I received 4 news broadcasting awards, 1 from the Associated Press & 3 from United Press International. I spent the last 5 years of my “career” on KFTX in Corpus Christi, constantly fighting with the program director over having to play their narrow top-ten Nashville music playlist of songs, when I really wanted to play Texas Music. I was finally shown the door after I played a Christmas-time phone request for Robert Earl Keen’s “Merry Christmas From The Family”, which was definitely not on the station’s playlist, (I really hate that word!). Now that I’m on HossTheBoss I can play what I want. Listen to my own dang show on the station every Sunday night at 7 p.m. Central.

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