The story of Art Greenhaw and The Light Crust Doughboys is a best of Texas original, filled with artistic achievements in music, composing, arranging, production, stage shows, recordings and films. Art Greenhaw was born in Dallas, Texas. His father plays all brass instruments, and, being a home recording buff, began making records of Art’s voice, guitar and piano when Art was three to ten years old. Art’s first complete record album was recorded at the tender age of thirteen and featured an "on stage" performance at a local bank’s annual Christmas banquet. Out of family-nurtured musical beginnings like these grew Art’s love of the art and science of recording and has resulted in Grammy Award-winning recordings on his own custom record label. Art acts in the capacity of singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, producer, and art director for a variety of record releases in the gospel, country, and country-rock fields, and he continues to lead the world's longest-running country band, The Light Crust Doughboys.

Art graduated from Southern Methodist University, and he has been a musician and bandleader ever since. In addition to the western swing work for which The Light Crust Doughboys are known, Art has composed the music soundtrack for the documentary film, LUGOSI: HOLLYWOOD’S DRACULA, and Art has had his original compositions performed and recorded by
some of the greatest entertainers, vocalists and instrumentalists in the
world including Engelbert Humperdinck, Ann-Margret, James Blackwood,
Larry Ford, The Jordanaires, Big John Hall, Trini Lopez, The Blackwood
Brothers, The Light Crust Doughboys, Nokie Edwards, Jewel Akens, Larry
"T-Byrd" Gordon and others.

During the last several years, Art and The Light Crust Doughboys have amassed notable achievements, particularly in light of the fact that their awards are based on custom, limited pressing recordings available primarily through the internet and their personal appearances. These accomplishments include:

• 2003 Grammy Award Winner

• GRAMMY NOMINATIONS the past 8-out-of-9 years (1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006) for "Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album of The Year"...Top 5 in the world in this field

• 2007 Will Rogers Award Winner, Western Swing Group or Duo of the Year, Academy of Western Artists

• Designated National Endowment of the Arts "American Masterpieces Touring Artists" for 2008: 1 of 12 outstanding Texas artists chosen  from the current Texas Commission on the Arts Touring Artists and Companies Roster

• 2006 Inductee (with The Light Crust Doughboys), Texas Radio Hall of Fame

• Designee (with The Light Crust Doughboys) of The Light Crust Doughboys Hall of Fame & Museum located in Quitman, Texas

• 2003 Inductee, Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame

• Dove Nominations in 1999 and 2002 for Best Southern or Country Gospel Album of the Year

• Official Music Ambassadors for The State of Texas, by proclamation of the 74th Texas Legislature in 1995

• Commendation from President Jimmy Carter in 1980 for achievements in business and music, presented to Art

• Commendation from The Texas Commission on the Arts in 1995 for achievements in music

• Named to the artists touring roster for the Texas Commission on the Arts in 1996

• Named "Family Business of the Year’ in the "Family Values" category by Baylor University, presented to Art and family in 1995

• Marquis Who's Who In The World, Who's Who In America, Who's Who in Entertainment

• Rockabilly Hall of Fame, Art and Light Crust Doughboys inducted June, 2000

• Charter Inductee and Lifetime Member as "Western Swing Hero" by The Cowtown Society of Western Music, Inducted 1999

• "I, Mike Anderson, Mayor of The City of Mesquite, Texas, do hereby proclaim Monday, March 3, 2003, as ART GREENHAW and the ART GREENHAW RECORDS COMPANY Day in The City of Mesquite, and urge all citizens to join me in congratulating Art Greenhaw and the Art Greenhaw Records Company on their Grammy Award and for their many accomplishments in the music industry!"

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The Light Crust Doughboys...

The history of the Grammy Award-winning Light Crust Doughboys covers more than seventy years of American music. In 1929, Texas fiddler Bob Wills formed the "Wills Fiddle Band". By 1931, Wills, along with Milton Brown on vocals and Herman Arnspiger on guitar, landed a morning radio show sponsored by the makers of Light Crust Flour. The general manager of the flour company and soon-to-be announcer of the band was W. Lee "Pappy" O' Daniel. Although Pappy went on to become Governor of Texas, United States Senator from Texas, and the only person to ever defeat Lyndon B. Johnson in any political race, when asked what he was most famous for, he replied, "The Light Crust Doughboys!"

The original Light Crust Doughboys are credited with the creation of the western swing style of music, which blends a wide range of musical repertoire including country, blues, jazz, pop, gospel and more. By the 1940s, The Light Crust Doughboys' Show was broadcast on more than 170 radio stations throughout the south and southwest. The famous opening words, "The Light Crust Doughboys are on the air!", are still used to this day to open all concerts by the The Light Crust Doughboys. The band today enjoys a faithful worldwide following that spans four generations of music lovers. 

Since 1993 alone, The Light Crust Doughboys have been featured artists on dozens of different projects now available in CDs, videos, songbooks with CDs, and vinyl albums. Since 1997, The Light Crust Doughboys have received multiple Grammy Nominations for best albums in their fields, winning The Grammy in 2003 for the album on Art Greenhaw Records, WE CALLED HIM MR. GOSPEL MUSIC: THE JAMES BLACKWOOD TRIBUTE ALBUM.

Led by Grammy Award-Winning musician and producer Art Greenhaw on bass guitar and vocals, The Light Crust Doughboys in various combinations include such virtuoso instrumentalists and singers as Maurice "Reece" Anderson on steel guitar, Kevin Bailey on guitar, Jim Baker on violin, Dale Cook on drums, and oftentimes Doughboy legends Jerry Elliott on guitar and John Walden on violin. A Light Crust Doughboy brass and reed ensemble is even added for select events, concerts and balls. The Light Crust Doughboys have played prestigious festivals throughout the United States, have toured Austria, and make frequent television appearances. Current Light Crust Doughboys have over 150 years of combined experience playing in The Light Crust Doughboys band. The Light Crust Doughboys were named The State of Texas' Official Music Ambassadors by the 74th Texas Legislature, are Texas Commission on the Arts' official touring artists, and are inductees in the Texas Cowboy, Texas Western Swing, Rockabilly, Texas Music, and Cowtown Society of Western Music Halls of Fame. In every personal appearance by The Light Crust Doughboys, the band pays tribute to its legacy by honoring the musical contributions of Bob Wills, Milton Brown, and especially, Marvin "Smokey" Montgomery, a Light Crust Doughboy from 1935 until his passing in 2001.

The Light Crust Doughboys are considered the longest-running country and western band in the world and one of the top historical bands of all time. To quote THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS, "The Light Crust Doughboys are to western swing what Bill Monroe is to bluegrass. When the ultimate western swing and Texas music book is written, The Light Crust Doughboys will be in Chapter 1, Page 1."

To book The Light Crust Doughboys for performances for all occasions contact Art Greenhaw:

Email: art@artgreenhaw.com
Website: www.thelightcrustdoughboys.com 
Phone: (972) 285-5441
Fax: (972) 285-5442
Mail: 105 Broad Street, Mesquite, Texas 75149

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