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Fall - Winter 1999
This debut newsletter issue is a
photo journal of my recent events this year on tour with the Light Crust Doughboys! (Note:
Load time may be long due to the number of photos)
Singing songs from Art’s GRAMMY, DOVE,
and INSP TV Network-Nominated "Gospel Album of the Year" are
left to right: Calvin Wills of the Singing Wills Family; Gospel singing legend, James
Blackwood; Art; Marion Snider, pianist for the original Stamps Quartet.
At the 1999 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, left
to right:Brad White; James Blackwood Quartet pianist; Dennis Zimmerman, Watchmen Quartet
member and Singing News journalist; Terry Lickona, Austin City
Limits producer; James Blackwood; Art.
In concert, singing songs off their new music
CD and cassette Red River Valley Memories, left to right: James
Blackwood; Light Crust Doughboy violinist, John Walden; Doughboys’ guitarist, Jerry
Elliott; Art.
Art playing his favorite stage bass guitar,
a customized Mosrite made famous by
his idol in guitar, Nokie Edwards; this
instrument, played by Art since he first
joined the Light Crust Doughboys, has
Mosrite 6-string guitar pickups and a
leather-covered pickguard.
Art and National Academy of Recording
Arts and Sciences Vice-President for
Awards, Diane Theriot. Grammy Awards,
1999, Los Angeles.
At the 1999 Dove Awards in Nashville with
good friend and talented singer, Gayla Dawn.
Art singing some of The Light Crust
Doughboys’ famous 3-part harmony
at Dallas’s Morton Myerson Symphony
Center, April 1998.
Art and Doughboys with the Dallas Wind Symphony at Morton Myerson Symphony Center, April
1998.
At the recording studio controls for another award-wining session are: left to right,
clockwise; Smokey Montgomery; Art; Art’s Dad, Frank; James Blackwood, 1998.
Art and recording engineer Barry Taylor discussing strategy for Art’s sessions with
steel guitar great, Tom Brumley, October, 1999.
James Blackwood and Art recording in Branson. Missouri, October, 1999.
A peak at the supercharged V6 engine that gets Art to many of his concerts. The power
plant is found inside a Buick Riviera, Art’s favorite automobile marque, 1999.
An important component in the promotion
of a traveling band: merchandise. Here’s
the latest headgear found on our
merchandise pages as shown and told
by Art, 1999.
Art at the stage show, the Brumley Show in Branson, produced by his steel guitar hero, Tom
Brumley, October, 1999.
At one of Art’s master-of ceremony duties - this time at Austin’s Marriott Hotel
at the Texas State Capitol, 1997.
The Doughboys with popular gospel music disc jockey, Jack Davis, Northgate United
Methodist Church, Irving, Texas, February, 1999.
Art at the 1998 Grammy Awards
in New York City.
Art at the 1999 Grammy Awards
in Los Angeles.
Smokey Montgomery, Light Crust
Doughboy since 1935, Patsy
Bradley, Senior Director Publisher
Administration, BMI-Nashville, and Art
at the BMI Gospel Dinner,
March 23, 1999.
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