Gilley's Urban Cowboy Band

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Gilley's Urban Cowboy Band is Mickey Gilley's band, featured in the movie Urban Cowboy . In 1981 The Urban Cowboy Band won its first and only Grammy for "Best Country Instrumental Performance". [1] The band also received the Academy of Country Music's "Band of the Year Award". [2]

The original Urban Cowboy Band at Gilley's consisted of Gilley; Johnny Lee; Bobbe Brown, drums, bass, and guitar; Tabby Crabb, piano and guitar; Rocky Stone, guitar; Damon Stephens, lead guitar and keyboards; Ron Levine, fiddle, piano, and band leader; Sidney Pomonis, bass and bus driver; J. B. Van, pedal steel guitar; Mike Schillaci, drums; Norman Carlson, saxophone, keyboards.[ citation needed ]

In 1990, Gilley and his Urban Cowboy Band opened the Mickey Gilley Theatre in Branson, Missouri. [3] Mickey teamed back up with Johnny Lee for The Urban Cowboy Reunion Tour. [4]

Crabb died April 18, 2011. [5] Gilley died May 7, 2022, of complications from bone cancer. [6]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.grammy.com/artists/gilleys-urban-cowboy-band/8226
  2. ↑ "Academy of Country Music | Search Winners".
  3. ↑ "Mickey Gilley gives Branson 26 years of amazing memories" Branson Tourism Center. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "Mickey Gilley & Johnny Lee Announce Urban Cowboy Reunion Tour" Nashville.com. Retrieved 08 January 2020.
  5. ↑ "Robert Talmage Crabb III: April 20, 2011" Archived January 17, 2013, at archive.today Americus Times-Recorder. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  6. ↑ Joe Hickman (May 8, 2022). "Branson mourns passing of country legend Mickey Gilley; more details on what led to his death". KY3.


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