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Gilley's Urban Cowboy Band

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Gilley's Urban Cowboy Band is Mickey Gilley's band. In 1981, the Gilley's Urban Cowboy Band won its first and only Grammy.[citation needed] The Gilley's Urban Cowboy Band performs in Branson, Missouri, with Mickey Gilley at the Mickey Gilley Theatre.[1]

The original Urban Cowboy Band at Gilley's consisted of Bobbe Brown, drums bass and guitar Tabby Crabb, piano and guitar; Rocky Stone, guitar, Damon Stephens, lead guitar and keyboardist, 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 and of course Mickey Gilley and Johnny Lee.

Tabby Crabb died April 18, 2011, of cancer at his home with his wife Gloria by his side.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Mickey Gilley Show News Article" Branson Tourism Center. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  2. ^ "Robert Talmage Crabb III: April 20, 2011" Archived January 17, 2013, at archive.today Americus Times-Recorder. Retrieved 21 November 2012.