The Texas Tycoons are an all-star band led by Paul Minor featuring the most in-demand Texas musicians performing a wide variety of Lone Star classics. Whether it's rock and roll, country, top 40, or blues Texas musicians have made a giant musical impact over the last 50 years. To celebrate their great musical heritage, the Texas Tycoons have built a repertoire as vast and varied as the great state itself. From Archie Bell to ZZ Top, Willie Nelson to T-Bone Walker, Doug Sahm to Buddy Holly, if it's Texas music, the Tycoons have got it covered.
The Texas Tycoons are Texas Music!
Dynamic bandleader Paul Minor also leads popular wedding circuit band Alterego and created the Texas Tycoons to celebrate the great legacy of Texas music. Paul was the lead singer in The Argyles, one of the state's most popular party bands in the 1980s and 1990s. In his quest to fill the world with great music he has released four albums with Hole in the Wall house band Superego and was inducted into the Texas Music Hall of Fame at the 2002 Austin Music Awards. The Texas Tycoons features top notch musicianship and professionalism. Due to the high demand for these players, Paul customizes his band for each gig with recruits from a stable of high caliber musicians with the talent, experience, and qualifications to become Texas Tycoons.
Current Texas Tycoons include:
Musician Instrument Other Bands and Musical Affiliations
Freddy Warner Vocals Influence Peddlers, Alterego
Jeff Johnston Bass Li'l Cap'n Travis, Smallstars
Gary Newcomb Lead Guitar, Pedal Steel Bruce Robison, Li'l Cap'n Travis, Kelly Willis
David Beebe Drums, Vocals The El Orbits, Banana Blender Surprise, Archie Bell, Roy Head, Chuck Berry
Landis Armstrong Guitar Paula Nelson, McLemore Avenue
Steven Johnson Alto Saxophone Delbert McClinton, Linda Rondstadt, The Cobras, Alterego
Ernie Durawa Drums Texas Tornados, Sir Douglas Quintet
Tony Scalzo Keyboards, Guitar Fastball, Beaver Nelson
Earl Poole Ball Piano Johnny Cash, Heybale
Texas Tycoons Song List = The Best Texas Dance Songs from the Best Texas Artists
San Antonio Rose - Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys Hey Baby - Bruce Channel Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison Tighten Up - Archie Bell and the Drells Treat Her Right, Just a Little Bit - Roy Head T-Bone Shuffle, Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker I'm Tore Down, Hideaway, Going Down - Freddie King Blue Skies, Funny How Time Slips Away, On the Road Again Help Me Make it Through The Night, Crazy, - Willie
Nelson Who Were You Thinking Of?, Is Anybody Going to San Antone?
Hey Baby Que Paso? - Texas
Tornados Lost Highway - Leon Payne King of the Road - Roger Miller I Got Loaded - Peppermint Harris Chantilly Lace - The Big
Bopper WhiskeyRiver - Johnny
Bush/Willie Nelson Not Fade Away, Oh Boy, Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly Wasted Days & Wasted Nights - Freddy Fender Waltz Across Texas
- Ernest Tubb Turn on Your Lovelight, Further on Up the Road - Bobby Blue
Bland If Sugar Was as Sweet As You - Joe Tex Pride and Joy, Love Struck Baby - Stevie Ray Vaughan Tush, Thunderbird - ZZ Top Tulsa
Time - Don Williams Wooly Bully, Li'l Red Riding Hood - Sam the Sham and the
Pharoahs The Fugitive, Mama Tried - Merle Haggard Will it Go Round in Circles - Billy Preston Amarillo By Morning, All My
Exes - GeorgeStrait Musta Notta Gotta Lotta - Joe Ely Gangster of Love - Johnny Guitar Watson Seven Nights to Rock - Moon Mullican Streets of Bakersfield,
Act Naturally - Buck Owens Too Many NIghts in a Roadhouse - Junior Brown I Fought the Law - Bobby Fuller Four The Joker - Steve Miller Tore Up - Sleepy LaBeef If You Got the Money, Honey, Long Black Veil - Lefty
Frizzell Midnight Special, Goodnight Irene - Leadbelly Talk to Me - Sunny and the Sunliners T For Texas
- Jimmie Rogers She's About a Mover, Mendocino - Sir Douglas Quintet You're Gonna Miss Me, Starry Eyes - Roky Erickson Cowboy Peyton
Place, Give Back the Key to My Heart - Doug Sahm London
Homesick Blues - Gary P. Nunn White Freightliner Blues, Pancho and Lefty, Ain't Leaving Your Love - Townes Van Zandt Lookin' For Love - Johnny Lee 96 Tears - ? and the Mysterians Honky Tonk - Gatemouth Brown Wichita Lineman, Galveston - Glen Campbell Matchbox Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson White Lightning, Loving You Could Never Be Better - George
Jones Route 66 - Asleep at the Wheel Luckenbach,
TX, Are You Ready for the Country
- Waylon Jennings Honky Tonk Man - Johnny Horton Midnight Special, Goodnight Irene - Leadbelly Don't It Make You Wanna Dance - Rusty Weir Dallas - Flatlanders Why You Been Gone - Mickey Newbury You Don't Know Me - Cindy Walker Pretty Little Lights of Town - LeRoi Brothers Northeast Texas Women -
Willis Alan Ramsey Live Forever - Billy Joe Shaver (The Girls All Get Prettier at) Closing Time - Mickey Gilley The Crawl, Nothin but Fine - Fabulous Thunderbirds
Hear the Texas Tycoons in action on their debut Freedom Records CD by clicking on the song titles below!
