Gilley's Urban Cowboy Band
Gilley's Urban Cowboy Band is Mickey Gilley's band, featured in the movie The Urban Cowboy. In 1981, The Urban Cowboy Band won its first and only Grammy for "Best Country Instrumental Performance." The band also received the Academy of Country Music's "Band of the Year Award."
The Urban Cowboy Band still performs all across the U.S., paying tribute to the legacy of Mickey Gilley and Johnny Lee, performing the songs fans love to hear and telling the stories that few have heard before.
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 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 - and of course Mickey and Johnny.
Tabby Crabb died April 18, 2011, of cancer at his home with his wife Gloria by his side.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "Robert Talmage Crabb III: April 20, 2011" Archived January 17, 2013, at archive.today Americus Times-Recorder. Retrieved 21 November 2012.