Volume 39, Number 7 August 2021 Come Join The Fun At The Western Swing Society’s 40th Annual HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES The following persons have been designated for induction into the Western Swing Hall of Fame on Oct. 1, 2 & 3, 2021 October 3, 2021 in recognition of their contributions to the preservation of Western Swing Music. Machinists’ Hall, Rancho Cordova, California Jake Erwin Lenny Serdahl Sr. $10 each day, or $25 for 3-day pass Joni Harms Whit Smith David Brian McCommas Jimmy Spero Sonny Rice John Steele Eddie Rivers Charlie Joe Wallace Zack Sapunor Joseph (Joe) Ybarra Great Western Swing Bands Ramon Selby Daily Jam Sessions Special Award For Service To WSS Don DeMars Hall of Fame Inductions on Sunday, October 3rd SPECIAL RATES AT LA QUINTA On-Site Beverages and Food Available 11131 Folsom Blvd, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 $116/night + tax Special Western Swing Room Rates at FULL DETAILS ON PAGE 5 Nearby La Quinta (Pg 7) W H A T’ S I N S I D E Officials & Staff ............. 2 New Items............................... 7 Editor’s Letter ................ 2 Dance Photos .................... 8 Jam Room Jammers ....... 2 Dance Photos .................... 9 GUEST BAND HOF Profiles .................. 3 Dance Photos .................. 10 Aug. 1, 2021 Hotel Flyer for HOF ...... 5 Dance Photos .................. 11 RIP Floyd Barnes ........... 5 Pictures Online ............. 12 Mae McCoy & President’s Letter ........... 5 Dance Photos .................. 14 her Neon Stars Band Photos ................... 6 Other WSS Orgs ........... 15 Board Mtg Invitation .......... 6 1:00 to 2:30 pm Membership Report ........... 6 Followed by Food Available ............... 6 “The House Band” Membership Application. ... 6 3:00 to 5:00pm Page 5 for the President’s Letter WESTERN SWING SOCIETY MUSIC NEWS August 2021 - Page 2 The Western Swing Society Letter from The Editor JAM ROOM JAMMERS PO Box 2474 Carmichael, CA 95609 Hey Folks, I’m As always the westernswingsociety.net happy to be able jam room was Facebook: SacramentoWesternSwingSociety to invite a new packed and Founded in 1981 by Loyd and Perry Jones exciting group to swingin’! to enable performance, preservation and the stage. Mae I have to give perpetuation of the unique American art McCoy and her form known as Western Swing Music. Tony big time Neon Stars have thanks for mak- Officers: agreed to come President, Rex Barnes (916) 704-1566 ing the jam Vice Pres, (open) entertain us room a big success. He also plays Treasurer, Linda Swanson in our drums and sets up the room with Secretary, (open) “feature band Other Directors: Chuck. Thank you boys! Tony Arana (775) 971-3070 spot”. I know Ronnie Elkan (916) 765-4345 our WSS We had a great crowd! Linda McCarley (916) 870-7463 family is go- Dave Rietz (916) 806-0520 We’d like to have you write to us Jeff Tilton (916) 798-9377 ing to give about your experience if you play Staff and Committee Chairpersons: them a warm welcome. in the jam room or go in to listen. Admissions Coordinator, Linda McCarley This great group has features Mae We’ll share your comments here Bar Manager, Cyndi Lee Bartender, Cyndi Lee McCoy out front with an exciting in this column. Just send your Decorating Chair, Rex Barnes rhythm guitar. She’s backed with a thoughts to this email: Equipment and Staging, Gary Blodgett pedal steel and stand up bass. Our [email protected] or send Historian, (open) Jam Room, Tony Arana own Tom Gunterman sometimes us a letter via snail mail. In the Master of Ceremonies, (open) jumps in on meantime we’ll list the players Membership Director, (open) fiddle. This is who joined us last month. Music Director, Ronnie Elkan Newsletter Editor, Ronnie Elkan an exciting Thanks gang. It was great!!!!!! Photographer, Mary Harris group that Tony Arana, Jam Room Host Public Relations Administrator, Jeff Tilton plays the “The Raffle, Bob and Virginia Kuykendall Editor’s letter continued Slide Show, (open) Real Deal Sound Engineer, Gary Blodgett Western was a barn burner. Big thanks Website, Dave Rietz Swing Music”. Tommy Thomsen and his great band. Tommy had Hall of Famers, If you can get on youtube.com you Olen Dillingham on mando and can bring them up. fiddle, Gary Blodgett on bass gui- Western Swing Society Music News Even though time is short because of tar, Bill Cornett and future Hall of is published monthly by the the pandemic the board has decided Famer Joe Ybarra on pedal steel. Western Swing Society to make plans for our regular Hall of Tommy himself has been a Hall of Views and opinions expressed by contrib- Fame celebration October 1st, 2nd Famer since October 1, 1995. He uting authors are not necessarily those of the and 3rd. This is pretty tough getting also owns and runs the “Church of editorial staff or the Society. out of towners here on short notice. Western Swing” in Submitted articles, publicity notices and Turkey Texas. He is a letters not relating directly to the Society or We’ll have a big time anyway. host of Bob Wills its members may be published at the discre- I’m starting to put a list of bands to- tion of the Editor, as space permits. The staff Days. Look it up, it is a gether right now, so get a hold of me reserves the right to edit any and all items great event. submitted for publication. if you know some bands that play our kind of music. I’m gonna miss seeing Floyd Barnes. RIP Deadline for Submittals: I missed the last dance, but I heard it All items, photographs, articles, and Buddy. Continued on next column ad’s are due to the Editor no later than See Ya Sunday, Ronnie the 10th of the month. WESTERN SWING SOCIETY MUSIC NEWS August 2021 - Page 3 DANIEL LEROY “ROY” HONEYCUTT BARRY DOSS June 3, 1920 - January 27, 1982 January 1, 1924 - September 18, 2007 Inducted October 4, 1987 Inducted October 4, 1987 Daniel Leroy (Roy) Honeycutt was born on June Since 1979 he has been working with the states of 3rd 1920 in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma to Sam and Nevada, Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming on their Sarah (Graham) Honeycutt. He was the youngest of Country Music Associations and their Country Mu- seven children (Brothers Walter, William, Charley, sic Halls of Fame The aim is to help the young Matt and sisters Hazel and Edith). He was the third country entertainers get started in this business and generation of self taught musicians. He started play- to also honor the famed country music legends who ing the guitar at 6 years of age. When he was 10 paved the way for them years old, he was playing the steel guitar and fiddle. He has worked promotion for Movie Stars: Gail Back in those days times were hard and children had Russell, Marie McDonald, Graucho Marx, and re- to grow up fast. Before he could learn to read and cently with George Montgomery on his induction write he had to quit school to help support the fami- into the Nebraska Hall of Fame. ly. His first love, however, is Country Music, and his Roy and his four older brothers were all musically real family are the many legends he has known and talented. For money they would often play at get- worked with. He is very proud to have known and togethers and other events around town. worked with three of Texas’ greatest bands: Hoyle When the southwest suffered from the great depres- Nix West Texas Cowboys, Bob Wills Texas Play- sion in 1929 (which affected the worldwide econo- boys, and now the most celebrated and honored my all through the 1930's) and the drought in 1934 group of them all, the Row Brothers Band of Dallas, that caused the dust bowl of 1935-1938 Roy and his Texas with Sister Louise and Buddy Beasley. family like so many others, living in poverty, left Their efforts so far have not yet produced a full Oklahoma and came to California in search of work fledged Country Star, but he will predict that when and a better life. the break through comes it will have originated in Continued on Page 4 the California Western Swing Society. The array of new and older talent there is staggering and it is on . Continued on Page 4 WESTERN SWING SOCIETY MUSIC NEWS August 2021 - Page 4 Roy Honeycutt continued from page 3 Barry Doss continued from page 3 Roy and his wife Dorothy moved to Campbell, Cali- ly a matter of time until the right song and the right fornia, while the rest of Roy's family settled in Tur- people come along. He asks that all country music lock, California. fans back the group that are promoting country mu- They found work picking fruit and working in the sic associations. Do it with your time and with your cotton fields and the workers and their families lived donations. It is very heartwarming and worth while in small cabins on the farm. In the evenings Roy and “it is your chance to have a hand in helping to performed at the local nightclubs around the Santa discover the next great talent just waiting out there Clara Valley. for you and me to find”. His talent and skill were quickly recognized by Roy Honeycutt continued from previous column many of the musicians and bands that were currently Pee Wee himself did go on to become an accom- working the clubs. He soon landed a job with Tex plished steel guitarist in his own right all the way to Randall band working five nights a week at The Se- the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame, inducted in 1992.