Freda and the Firedogs, “the right band, in the right town, at the right time,” banded together in 1972. The Firedogs played its final gig at Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic in 1974.
Freda and the Firedogs, one of “the 25 greatest Austin bands of all time, had the real country chops to be the first ‘hippie country’ band to get a gig at the Broken Spoke” Michael Corcoran, Austin Post, January 11, 2014. “The Firedogs attracted a melange of students, bikers, Mexican families, hippies and rednecks,” Joe Nick Patoski, Willie Nelson An Epic Life. The Firedogs are “among the godparents of Austin's prodigious roots-music obsession.” Margaret Moser, Austin Chronicle, December 13, 2002.
“Freda and the Firedogs was the Austin band that was gonna make it,” said Augie Meyers,“but they didn’t sign the big-time contract when it was offered,” Jan Reid, The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock. Thirty years after the legendary J...
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Freda and the Firedogs, “the right band, in the right town, at the right time,” banded together in 1972. The Firedogs played its final gig at Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic in 1974.
Freda and the Firedogs, one of “the 25 greatest Austin bands of all time, had the real country chops to be the first ‘hippie country’ band to get a gig at the Broken Spoke” Michael Corcoran, Austin Post, January 11, 2014. “The Firedogs attracted a melange of students, bikers, Mexican families, hippies and rednecks,” Joe Nick Patoski, Willie Nelson An Epic Life. The Firedogs are “among the godparents of Austin's prodigious roots-music obsession.” Margaret Moser, Austin Chronicle, December 13, 2002.
“Freda and the Firedogs was the Austin band that was gonna make it,” said Augie Meyers,“but they didn’t sign the big-time contract when it was offered,” Jan Reid, The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock. Thirty years after the legendary Jerry Wexler produced a 1972 Atlantic session, unreleased at the time due to contractual differences, the album finally came out in 2002 on Plug Music and is proclaimed “One of the greatest albums in Austin music history,” Austin Chronicle, Oct. 11, 2002
All 5 original members of Freda and Firedogs reunite for two nights only for the Doug Sahm SXSW Tribute Night at the Paramount Theater, on March 21 and the following night, Sunday, March 22, at the legendary Broken Spoke, 3104 South Lamar, in South Austin.
Freda and the Firedogs are: Marcia Ball (piano and vocals), John X. Reed (guitar and vocals), Bobby Earl Smith (bass and vocals), David Cook (steel guitar and electric guitar), and Steve McDaniels (drums).
www.fredafiredogs.com
contact: bobbyearlsmith@gmail.com
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