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Jay Boy Adams
Americana / Folk Rock / Blues



Comfort, Texas
United States

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Last Login:  7/4/2009
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Member Since9/6/2006
Band Websitejayboyadams.com
Band Members
Jay Boy Adams: Vocals & Guitars

Brian McRae: Bass & Vocals
Mark Butzirus: Drums & Vocals
Sam Hendrix: Keyboards, Acoustic Guitars & Vocals

GUEST ARTISTS:
Paul Culver: Keyboards
Todd Caldwell: Keyboards
Don Caldwell: Sax
Toby Caldwell: Percussion & Vocals



Coming June 9, 2009



Brothers of the Southland
with Bo Bice

Appearing on the album:

Bo Bice- Vocals / Guitar (American Idol - Solo Artist)
Steve Grisham- Guitar / Vocals (The Outlaws)
the late George McCorkle- Guitar / Vocals (Marshall Tucker Band)
D. Scott Miller- Guitar / Bouzouki (Record Producer)

Touring band:

Jimmy Hall- Vocals / Sax / Harmonica (Wet Willie Band)
Henry Paul- Vocals / Guitar / Mandolin (The Outlaws, BlackHawk)
Steve Gorman- Drums (The Black Crowes, Jimmy Page)
"Dangerous" Dan Toler- Guitar (The Gregg Allman Band, The Allman Brothers, Dickey Betts, Great Southern)
Reese Wynans- Keyboards (Stevie Ray Vaughn)
Mike Brignardello- Bass (Giant, renowned session player)
Jay Boy Adams- Guitar (Texas Blues Solo Artist)






InfluencesBlues, folk, rock, British Invasion, and California Country.

Early favorites: Ventures, Lonnie Mack, B.B King, Cream, Hendrix, Allman Brothers Band, Marshall Tucker Band, James Taylor, and Jackson Browne.



Sounds LikeNative Texas mixed with early influences.



Record LabelSMITH MUSIC GROUP/Rockin' Heart Records

Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jul 1 2009 7:30P
Welfare Cafe/JBA and RHScholars Welfare, Texas
Jul 3 2009 8:30P
LandLocked/solo guest appearance Ruidoso, New Mexico
Jul 8 2009 7:30P
Welfare Cafe/JBA and RHScholars Welfare, Texas
Jul 15 2009 7:30P
Welfare Cafe/JBA and RHScholars Welfare, Texas
Jul 22 2009 7:30P
Welfare Cafe/JBA and RHScholars Welfare, Texas
Jul 29 2009 7:30P
Welfare Cafe/JBA and RHScholars Welfare, Texas
Aug 5 2009 7:30P
Welfare Cafe/JBA and RHScholars Welfare
Aug 12 2009 7:30P
Welfare Cafe/JBA and RHScholars Welfare
Aug 18 2009 8:00P
River City Grill/ Solo acoustic with Mike Blakley & John Greenburg Marble Falls, Texas
Aug 19 2009 7:30P
Welfare Cafe/JBA and RHScholars Welfare, Texas
Aug 26 2009 7:30P
Welfare Cafe/JBA and RHScholars Welfare, Texas
Sep 26 2009 8:00P
Mitchell County Museum/Old Settlers Reunion/JBA & Bill Worrell Colorado City, Texas
Oct 16 2009 9:00P
Hondo’s on Main Fredricksburg, Texas

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   About Jay Boy Adams

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Jay Boy Adams refutes F. Scott Fitzgerald’s maxim that there are no second acts in American lives by having not just one but two notable musical careers. A pioneering roots-rock recording and touring artist from 1976 to 1982, he bowed out of music to raise a family and found one of the top tour bus transportation companies in the music business, and later help guide country star Pat Green to fame as his manager. And then returned to making music a quarter century later with his acclaimed Top 5 Americana chart album The Shoe Box in 2007.

Native Texan Adams released two albums on Atlantic Records in 1977 and 1978, and throughout the 1970s into the early ‘80s spent some 200 to 250 days a year on the road. But the grind of touring and pursuing his musical ambitions eventually took their toll, and he was also intent on being a good father and husband. So he put his guitar down, left the road and quit music. “When I walked away, I walked away,” says Adams.

But then country star Lee Roy Parnell invited Jay Boy to join him onstage at a show in 1997, and his songwriting muse and love for playing guitar and performing returned with a vengeance. He has since toured on George Strait’s 1999 Country Music Festival, headlined the Kerrville Folk Festival and also toured Europe as a special guest star with The Texas Tornados. Following the release of The Shoe Box, he hit the road again as a special guest opening for Stephen Stills. Adams has also joined the Southern rock supergroup Brothers of the Southland alongside such notables as Jimmy Hall of Wet Willie, Henry Paul of The Outlaws and Blackhawk, “Dangerous” Dan Toler of the Allman Brothers, Steve Gorman of The Black Crowes, Bo Bice of “American Idol” fame and other top players. And he’s readying material for another album of his own and enjoying music more than ever before.

Adams grew up in Colorado City, Texas, the son of music loving parents. His future was sealed as a youth at his father’s Chevrolet dealership, where he learned business and auto mechanics and was tutored in the blues and R&B by the dealership’s African-American porter, Dewitt Bender. By his early teens Adam had taken up guitar and played in bands throughout his high school years. His college studies were soon interrupted by music.

Adams spent a number of years honing his craft playing in bands in Houston and then in Midland, Texas with noted bluesman Johnny Heartsman. He also began writing songs, and in 1972 landed an opening slot in Lubbock for ZZ Top, whose manager Bill Ham was impressed enough to recruit Adams as the group’s regular opening act. After four years on the road with ZZ Top, Adams won a deal with Atlantic Records, and hit the touring circuit in earnest again for the next six years, sharing concert bills with such artists as ZZ Top, The Allman Brothers Band, Joe Cocker, Jackson Browne, Marshall Tucker Band, Bonnie Raitt, The Kinks and many others.

By the time he quit music in ‘82, his next career was already percolating thanks to the tour busses he had bought for his own tours and then leased out to other acts when he took breaks from the road. The business he started, Roadhouse Transportation, now boasts a fleet of some 25 custom touring coaches that it leases to such musical acts as Bruce Springsteen, Celine Dion, Sting, George Strait, Santana, Dave Matthews and many others. Adams also met and befriended a young Texas music artist named Pat Green who came to Roadhouse to lease a bus. Impressed by Green and the success he had forged in the Lone Star State, Adams signed on to manage him and guide Green to the next level of his career.

His return to recording, The Shoe Box, was co-produced by Monty Byrom and hit 3 on the Americana Music chart, where it enjoyed a 30-week run and was ranked 7 of all 2007 releases. The Shoe Box also spent nearly two years on the Texas Music chart, where it yielded three Top 10 singles. Adams was hailed by critics for creating “music [that’s] its own genre, mixing folk, blues, rock, and country into an astonishing twelve tracks” (Texas Music Times) as well as for the album’s “damn tasty guitar, simple but brilliant, and… some catchy-as-hell tunes” (Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange).

Stephen Stills also loved the album and invited Adams to open his national tour as a solo performer and join him onstage every night to play some songs together. His return to making music “has exceeded all my wildest expectations,” says Adams. “It is more about the music than ever for me now, and I’m doing it for the fun of it. Musically and creatively, I still have a lot left in me. It’s just the tip of the iceberg. And I’m really having a great time.”



TOP 50 AMERICANA CHART/RADIO CDs OF 2007:

1 - Lucinda Williams WEST -- Lost Highway
2 - Ryan Adams EASY TIGER -- Lost Highway
3 - Kelly Willis TRANSLATED FROM LOVE -- Rykodisc
4 - Son Volt THE SEARCH -- Transmit Sound
5 - Patty Griffin CHILDREN RUNNING THROUGH -- ATO
6 - Marty Stuart COMPADRES -- Superlatone

7 - Jay Boy Adams THE SHOE BOX -- Smith
8 - Joe Ely HAPPY SONGS FROM RATTLESNAKE GULCH -- Rack 'Em
9 - Subdudes STREET SYMPHONY -- Back Porch
10 - Gurf Morlix DIAMONDS TO DUST -- Blue Corn



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Pictorial tribute to friend George McCorkle (Marshall Tucker Band)




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Mark Pucci or Jill Kettles - Mark Pucci Media (770) 804-9555 / mpmedia@bellsouth.net

Marsha Milam - Milam & Co. (512) 477-0036 / marsha@milamandcompany.com

Label Contact:

Bob Mitchell – Rockin’ Heart/Smith Entertainment Records (817) 946-2108 / bob.mitchell@smithmusic.com

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Jul 1 2009 2:52 AM

ITS OUT!!!!!!!!! my debut album "My Life on the Radio" hit stores today!
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Get your copy today!....you'll have to for sure let me know what you think ok?
Danny Darling





Jun 27 2009 6:31 PM

Hey Jay,
Hey! Man! I had a blast playing drums with you. It had been a long time. Like I said after the show it went by way to fast. I cant believe I ate twice that night. Man! I was hungry. But, who could pass up excellent 5 star food like that?
Jay, thanks for thinking of me and asking me to fill in for your drummer. I hope he is feeling better. Would love to play again and hopefully as a guest in the studio with you and your new great band.
Danny D
P.S.
I got lost leaving the Ranch, but it was a nice drive through the Hill Country. I finally got to a Highway that I recognized.
JUSTIN ROSS





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Jun 21 2009 2:58 AM

*cough* oh yea of course I've been practicing....I'm practically fluent now! Errr...i just get easily distracted ya know...so it might look like i've forgotten everything, but it's just because my mind is elsewhere, honest! *cough* lol. I still remember how to sign 'my name', that's a handy start lol, not sure about the rest. As for work Im still workin at the same ole, same ole, but im also making some extra money taking these surveys things online; you should give em a try; i mean, hey, the extra money comes in handy, right? i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is:

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, shame I wouldn't have minded staying there till something more appropriate came along, but I don't have that option now heh.
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Jun 19 2009 4:43 PM

Hello, it's me, Ruby Jane.To those who don't know me, I am a 14 year old fiddler, songwriter. I have some songs posted that are fresh out of the studio. Let me know if you like the new songs..be one of the first to hear, even before they are released!Thanks! new videos too!
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Jun 18 2009 1:28 AM

YES! I do too, but I can't breathe, I can't sleep and my head is throbbing....I went to the Pharmacy last night and she hooked me up, so I hope with these meds I can get to feeling better. I am not coming in this afternoon to work. We might actually do that. Send a text my way and remind me, if you don't mind. I'd love to do that! We are SOOO loving our vacation time and love being around people too. the extra money we made from taking those paid surveys online helped out so much!! you should really do them too; i mean, hey, the extra money comes in handy, right? i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is:

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Jun 5 2009 1:40 AM

I fell in love with your music in the late 1970's. Rock on!
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Jun 5 2009 1:15 AM

Whats going on?
Ok so my debut album is coming out on JUNE 30th!!!!!! and I wanted to make sure and remind you to mark your calendars for the day! I'd really really appreciate if you'd pick one up....I promise you'll like it haha. You can get it on iTunes or CDBABY.com
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May 28 2009 4:49 AM

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May 25 2009 9:06 PM

Jay,

Thanx so much for the CD for my dad. the gig was great - everyone love it.

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May 25 2009 8:27 AM

thanks again for all the support and the cd's!! check out my new song rythm of the rail and let me know what ya think!!!
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May 24 2009 4:59 AM

AWESOME new profile...narum so rocks!!!
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May 21 2009 10:56 PM

Hi there TOP FRIEND ! I hope your week thus far has been SUPER and your coming weekend is FABULOUS ! As alwayus, my very best wishes for your continued HAPPINESS and SUCCESS !
Cheers, beers and a lasting friendship,
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May 21 2009 5:28 PM

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May 19 2009 9:57 PM

Headin your way on this holiday weekend for the Grand Opening Party at Buffalo Cantina Live. It is Sunday night on the lake and is gonna be a really fun time-come on down and have a beer with us! your friends Shurman
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May 19 2009 4:37 PM

should of been a JB not JJ. Wow! need stronger glasses.
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