| About airfred music | Freddy Powers Full Name: Fredrick Dale Powers (prefers “Freddy”) Born: Duncan, Oklahoma, Raised: Seminole, Texas Instrument: Guitar, Banjo Major Musical Influences: Django Reinhardt, Paul Buskirk & Floyd Tillman Selected Awards/Honors 1 CMA - Triple Play 5 BMI awards for #1 songs: *+ "I Always Get Lucky With You" "Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room Tonight" ("Special Citation of Achievement" by BMI for 1 Million broadcast performances) * "Looking For A Place to Fall Apart" * "Friend in California" "Western Swing Society "Hall of Fame" "Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame" "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Texas Guitar Association "Cable Ace Nominee for Rogers and Hammerhead Show for the Austin Music Network" Other Credits Janie Frickie - "Ridin' High" Ray Charles - "Little Hotel Room" Texas Girls Choir - "Water", "Santa Why Can't Everyday be Christmas" & "Happy Birthday to the Lord" Nevada Special Olympics Theme Song -"Everybody Has A Chance To Win" (Including Singers: Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Johnny Rodriguez & 80 Special Olympic Athletes) The Freddy Powers Parkinson's Foundation was founded April, 2006 to benefit Texans with Parkinson's Recorded by Merle Haggard + Recorded by George Jones Album Credits: * new “My Great Escape” Co-produced by Merle Haggard, featuring duets with Merle and Freddy Co-produced, sang & played guitar on Willie Nelson's platinum album, "Somewhere Over The Rainbow". Co-produced & played on Merle Haggard's Pop album "Merle Haggard "Unforgettable" released in 2004 Featured artist on the Lin & Kliff Story Collection (Bear Family Records) -" Do You Remember", "Loser", "Wasted Love" & "Chapel of My Heart" Album Releases: "Country Jazz Singer", "Hottest Thing In Town", "Silver Eagle", “My Great Escape”, Rogers and Hammaerhead aka Freddy Powers and Bill McDavid" & many more Partial List of TV Credits: Austin City Limits - 6 Today Show - 2 Tonight Show - 2 New Country Nashville Now Willie Nelson's outlaw channel Co-producer & Creator of the Cable Ace Nominee - Rogers & Hammerhead Show Record Labels MCA Records, Warner Brothers, In Orbit Records, Powerhouse Records, Autograph Records, Hag Records Bear Family Records, B F Hammerhead & AirFred Music Booking Information Catherine Allen Corey 918 Lauder Drive Spicewood, Texas 78669 512-264-2277 cell 512-828-9887 - 512-415-8059 Email: catherine@freddypowers.com Though born in Oklahoma Freddy is true “Texas all the Way” with several famed Texas songs including “James Michener's inspiration and title to his movie “Texas” others "Texas and Oklahoma" has been performed for both Texas and Oklahoma governors conventions and both football teams, “My San Antonio Rose and latest “Texas All the Way”. Freddy’s roots and music career began in Seminole, Texas in his family band. Moving on to Dallas, Texas where he worked in the famed Round Up Club and the Bridgeport Club as well as many other various Texas nightclubs and honky tonks as well owning his own Texas honky tonk the Crestview Club in Arlington and the house band at the Peanut Club in Houston. Freddy and his band with his mentor Paul Buskirk made history with being the first band to broadcast in color on WBAP Fort Worth, Texas. Freddy has not always concentrated on just his music career, when not donating his time to various charities and foundations like the Texas Girls Choir or the Texas Boys and Girls Club or Musicians Drug Abuse Programs and Health foundations, he has been a mentor himself and helped many of his band and non-members alike in the music business getting songs recorded like fellow Texan's John Cody Carter’s “When it Rains it Pours” cut by Merle Haggard or Bill McDavid’s #1 song in Americana Charts by Willie Nelson and with his invitation to a recording day with Willie Sonny Throckmorton's latest Willie cut "Big Bootie". Freddy has also contributed to musicians going on to becoming great well known players like Clint Strong of Arlington with Merle Haggard, Melton Quackenbush of Houston with Mel Tillis, and others like Gary Church previously with Merle Haggard and Mel Tillis and Scotty Joss who now is with Merle previously with Dwight Yokum. Presently he is a mentor and/or teacher to Bill McDavid, Pauline Reese, John Cody Cater, Lee Duffy and child prodigy singer/writer/musician Lauren Beller and her father Jeff Beller. Freddy now lives in Austin Texas on Willie Nelson’s golf course where he continues to contribute the Texas music industry and his fellow musicians and as his latest song says recorded by Scotty Joss “Back Playing Honky Tonks Again”. Diagnosed with Parkinson Disease in 2004, Freddy vows to help in research and aide in the needs of other central Texas Parkinson patients. |
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