Photo: The Dead Eye Band. Rear: Johnny Medford, Michael, DC, Rick Jenson. Front: “Sleepy John” Barker. Read Part One Michael J. Martin: Warrior Poet Like Oisín, the legendary Irish warrior poet, so was Michael. Praised for his heroism, and loved for his compassion, he...

Read Part One “These guys are the bee’s knees!”– Glinda We continue down the yellow brick road with the Dallas band: The Bee’s Knees Our first Album, aptly named The Bees' Knees, had been released and was for sale in every Peaches and Sound Warehouse in America – and...

Photo: The Bee's Knees performing at the Lee Park Festival. Photo by Jaye Duncan. Read Part One I had been seduced by music, but as you well know by this point in my story, my mistress is part muse and part tormentor. But Lady Luck and Sister Fate were about to grace...

At closing time, we hauled all our equipment out, loaded the two vehicles and drove straight to Albuquerque…

Marching to the beat of two different drummers…

Everyone seemed to really, really love the music… or maybe it was the goddamn beer?

The gig was four and then five nights a week, five sets a night… like a music factory, a hardhat area governed by OSHA…

And when Joe sang “The Green, Green Grass of Home” there wasn’t a dry eye in the house. No kidding…

I was thrown out of the High School band for hazing sophomores and consequently quit school in my senior year…

In 2012, Wally had returned to songwriting when he collaborated with, Raul Malo, on the Mavericks’ reunion project…