Diane Diekman
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Faron Young's Country Deputies

Front/Lead guitar

Doyle Wilburn (deceased)

Jimmy Fautheree (deceased)

Front/Rhythm guitar

Teddy Wilburn (deceased)

"Johnny" Lynn Fautheree (deceased)

Lead guitar

Pete Wade

Odell Martin (deceased)

Leon "Wahoo" Sutton

Bill "Rip" Wilson

Charlie Murphy (deceased)

Richard Bass Barish

Upright Bass

Tom Pritchard (deceased)

Frontman/Bass

Johnny Paycheck (deceased)

Darrell McCall

Gino King

Dave Hall

Pete Street

Ray Emmett

George Owens

Steel Guitar

Joe Vincent

Lloyd Green

Ben Keith

Dicky Overbey

Sonny Burnette

Jerry Merhar

George Edwards

Jimmie Crawford (deceased)

Doug Jernigan

Skip Jackson

Hank Corwin

Al Lewis

Cal Sharp

Daryl Hornberger

Ron Hogan

Stu Basore

Fiddle

Gordon Terry

Shorty Lavender (deceased)

Dale Potter (deceased)

Ernie Reed

Joe "Big Red" Hayes (deceased)

Vassar Clements (deceased)

Hank Singer

John Schattenburg

Ron Knuth

Ray Mellas

Kenny Sears

Leon Boulanger (deceased)

Robert Bowlin

Ozzie Ozment

Piano

Terry Duncan

Gene Dunlap

Drums

Dewey Martin

Roger Miller (deceased)

Jim Isbell

Jerry "Cootie" Wayne Hunley

Glen Davis

Steve Nath (deceased)

Marc Gullen

[This message was edited by Richard Bass on 20 December 2005 at 06:30 PM.]

Missing are: Jimmy Day, Bob Foster, Buddy Emmons, Roy Lunn, Bobbe Seymour and probably more players.

Kind Regards, Walter

www.lloydgreentribute.com
www.austriansteelguitar.at.tf

[This message was edited by Walter Stettner on 21 December 2005 at 06:46 AM.]

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And just today at walmart, I bought "moments to remember" for four dollars. The young picture of Faron on the cover caught my eye.

This CD is FULL of great steel. Most of it sounds like Emmons to me, but I'm not sure about the C6 stuff on "Live fast, love hard..." and "king of the road". Maybe Jim Murphy?

And there's one song called "Life is a picture" where Faron's singing sounds like old Willie Nelson. (I know that's weird, but I swear).

According to the back cover, the disc is put out by 'LEGACY entertainment inc.' and is manufactured in Canada.

Some more titles from it are: The tips of my fingers, Nothing left to lose, Memphis Tennessee, Apt. No. 9, Cryin time, Together Again, There goes my everything.

Check it out!!

[Actually, come to think of it, It could've been anyone playing steel. (maybe buddy ch.? or perhaps lloyd?) I don't know but the stuff on the buck owens tunes sounds almost identical to ole tumblin' Tom.

And Maybe it was Willie who used to phrase lines like Faron, and not vice versa].

[This message was edited by Cody Campbell on 23 December 2005 at 03:09 PM.]

Diane's list is a list of Deputies, not session players and that's what some of those guys were, simply session dudes. (no disrespect to the profession intended)
If you drew a wage touring with Faron, then you were a Deputy.
Of course there's always gonna be some guy who gets missed on any list.. in most cases it's someone who temped for a week or two while someone was sick, etc.

Sorry, I overread that the list is dealing with the names of the Deputies, Richard has also sent me an e-amil regarding that. He also confirmed that Bobbe Seymour was touring with Faron.

Roy Lunn was a member of the "Circle A Wranglers", the army band Faron was touring with between 1952 and 1954 when he was in the army. The German Cattle Label has an interesting CD available, with those early transcriptions. You can check it out under www.dagmar-anita-binge.de

Kind Regards and Merry Christmas, Walter

For me, and kleep in mind I make lists like these .. if you're going to define a group by name, then that's how the band members qualify.

So Perry's band does not, although if one was making a list of gigging bands, then they'd be on it for sure.

It's like Buck Owens Buckaroos, the list would only exist from 1962 or so, even though Don Rich was with him in Ca. from 1960 and Buck even had a band in Tacoma in 1958-59 before he returned.

Back to Faron, if it's a Deputies list, then the Circle A Wranglers, would be excluded.
At least by the thinking.

Nor would I include the following:
TILLMAN FRANKS & His Rainbow Boys
Radio KWKH, Shreveport, La. 10.10.51 Faron Young (vcl/gtr); Tillman Franks (bs); Calvin Tirbyville (stl gtr); Floyd Cramer (pno); Tommy Bishop (fdl); Ralph Mayo (fdl); Mal Irby (dms)
7-TF-1 HOT ROD-SHOTGUN BOOGIE No 2 Gotham 412

Anyway.. the usual press on his band goes along these lines.
When Faron completed his Army service and returned to Nashville in late 1954, fiddler Gordon Terry became the first member of his band. Joe Vincent on steel guitar and Tom Pritchard on bass also joined him.
The Wilburn Brothers played lead and rhythm guitar and opened the show, until embarking on their highly successful recording career.
To get a name for the band, Faron's manager Hubert Long held a contest. A 15-year-old South Dakota girl submitted the winning entry--The Young Sheriff and his Country Deputies. (In later years, Faron changed the title to Singing Sheriff.)