Charlie hails from West Texas, but has made Austin his home. He single handedly tried to save the Pearl Brewery from corporate takeover. Charlie just may go on to become the most famous movie extra never known.

In fact, Charlie has retired from his post as the engineer of the Zilker Zephyr to take on both the Hecklers and the Strollers, and to show up on the big screen now and again. The Hecklers include James "Elmo" Sproat, who gained his funky rep in Austin playing with Jesse Dayton. Francis "Psycho" Mougne is on lead guitar and plays a mean banjo, as well. Francis cut his teeth in the Bluegrass scene out in northern California. And, to round it out, none other than Darrell "my other brother" Moran on drums. Darrell made a name for himself, for better or worse, playing in Endochine. Formerly, Charlie hit the road with those guys and some good songs came out of those days. Anyone remember the chords to Bel-Air Motel?

With the new release, "See You Walkin'", Bruce Smith continues the work praised by Eric Brace of the Washington Post as "powerful folk songs with a conscience" and what Neal Fagan of  Performing Songwriter Magazine called "literate, descriptive lyrics with a unique point of view articulated in a way that's intelligent and accessible".

The Bruce Smith Band features two time Grammy Award Winner Randy Caballero (formerly of La Mafia and Xelencia) on keyboards, Jasper on lead guitar, Jamie Pender on bass, Bryan Austin on drums and Bruce Smith on lead vocals and rhythm guitar.

Charlie hails from West Texas, but has made Austin his home. He single handedly tried to save the Pearl Brewery from corporate takeover. Charlie just may go on to become the most famous movie extra never known.

In fact, Charlie has retired from his post as the engineer of the Zilker Zephyr to take on both the Hecklers and the Strollers, and to show up on the big screen now and again. The Hecklers include James "Elmo" Sproat, who gained his funky rep in Austin playing with Jesse Dayton. Francis "Psycho" Mougne is on lead guitar and plays a mean banjo, as well. Francis cut his teeth in the Bluegrass scene out in northern California. And, to round it out, none other than Darrell "my other brother" Moran on drums. Darrell made a name for himself, for better or worse, playing in Endochine. Formerly, Charlie hit the road with those guys and some good songs came out of those days. Anyone remember the chords to Bel-Air Motel?

About Redd Volkaert, excerpt from his bio:

I decided to go to Nashville via California, assuming everybody in Edmonton was sick of my noodling and the U.S. hadn't heard of me yet, (hopeful). My first stop was in Redding, CA, at the Saddle Horn Club with Johnny Roberts for a one-month engagement that ended suddenly with my leaving town in the middle of the night.

Landed a gig with Don Cox and the Cowtown Band featuring steel guitarist Bobby Black (WOW!) in San José where Don told me that he had had some ugly guitar players in his 20 years at that club, but I was the best of the truck driver lookin' ones.

Six months later I moved to Santa Cruz to work with Ginny Mitchell in her trio for the summer (two guitars and bass) doing country, bluegrass, and swing. That was a blast!

Tired of being a noodling beach bum, I headed south to L.A. where I played seven nights a week in Huntington Beach with Chad Watson, Mike Thomas, and Alan Rich (Charlie's boy), met hundreds of new pickers, got my ass kicked by thousands of guitar players, it was wonderful. There I listened as much as I played. The L.A. music scene at that time was a great and exciting learning time for me. I got to experience country, blues, rockabilly, swing, and jazz like I'd never heard or seen before. I was lucky enough to get to play on many demos and recordings of everything but jazz; I still get a headache when I try to figure that stuff out. I even considered giving up food for music - there was so much variety there.

After OD'ing on L.A., I decided Nashville was my next move, knowing they fully needed another noodler with a Telecaster. So I stopped in San Angelo, TX, to visit Lynn Massey, former drummer of Red Steagall's band, whom I'd met in Calgary 10 years earlier. He just happened to need a guitar player for a couple of months, so we kicked around Texas for the winter. His band later became Neil McCoy's band and still is today.

About Floyd Domino, excerpt from bio:

Floyd Domino's dazzling boogie-woogie piano styling is known to audiences around the world earning him acclaim and awards for over three decades. Floyd Domino brought home his Best Keyboards Award this April to keep company with the two Grammy Awards won for featured work with Asleep at the Wheel.

While Floyd is widely recognized for his years with Asleep at the Wheel and the revival of Western Swing, Floyd began his career with a broad grounding in jazz, boogie woogie, swing and blues piano.

Floyd's sparkling keyboards and versatility make him the choice of swing, jazz and blues musicians well beyond his Austin, Texas home. In addition to Asleep at the Wheel, Floyd has recorded and performed with Merle Haggard, George Strait (5 albums), The Texas Playboys, Waylon Jennings, jazz guitarist Herb Ellis, Kelly Willis, Bruce Robison, Monte Warden, Don Walser and the Crickets to name a few. Over and above his numerous awards Austin-based Floyd Domino has played at the Kennedy Center, Inaugural events and has even been heard in outer space by way of George Strait's #1 hit, "Ace In The Hole", beamed up to the crew of the space shuttle Columbia in a wake-up call.