THE COUNTRY MUSIC REVEIW BAND WELCOME'S YOU
CMR has over 200 years combined expierience. CMR entertaims audiences with music from Classic to Top 40's Country, 50's & 60's Rock,
Classic Rock, Blues, Gospel original songs and much more. A six piece band with five lead singers, their three and four part harmonies are simply outstanding!
Members of CMR have performed at The Nashville Palace, Country Music Hall of Fame and The Grand Ole' Opry, in addition to countless other major venues.
In May 2007, with sponsorship from Hoosier Racing Tire, CMR
began it's own dinner show at the
Newton Center in Lakeville, Indiana. This monthly program draws fan's from miles around, some saying "You'd think you were in Branson."
Talented, entertaining and professional, they will have all their fans throughout the Michiana area
dancin', singin', and clappin' along to every CMR beat.
WHO WE ARE
CMR was founded by South Bend resident and Tennessee native Jimmie Robbins — guitar, vocals. Jimmie comes from a musical background. His “Papa” Robbins was a great old-time Tennessee fiddler. Jimmie became interested in guitar on Saturday nights at his grandparent’s, when their house was full of people dancing and singing. His first guitar was from Sears. He taught himself to play by sitting in the corner of small country churches watching other musicians play. He moved to Rock & Roll bands in the Sixties and, of course, played every high school sock-hop dance in Tennessee and Indiana. As lead guitarist, Jimmie has sat in on several studio projects. His love of southern gospel music brought him to the weekend touring band, Kevin Kilburn and Company.
At 6 years of age Gloria Stallings — piano, vocals, bass guitar — started traveling and singing in churches with her family. After years of gospel, Gloria, who plays both piano and bass guitar, branched out into country and contemporary music. She joined the Flying Blind band in the early 1990s, and then The Senturys for 13 years. She has performed at the Nashville Palace in Nashville and at The Rockin’ Horse in Fort Wayne and at Buck Lake Ranch in Angola. She’s working on her second CD and has done studio work for various artists. In April 2009, she sang at the Ryman in Nashville with Jimmie Robbins on guitar.
Billy Lemmons Jr. — vocals, guitar, harmonica — started performing at open mic nights around South Bend in 1998. By the next year he’d established his own open mic night on Wednesdays and by 2000 had expanded to a second night, Fridays. In 2001, Billy recorded his first CD, Luni Tunes, which received air time on radio stations WZOW and WAOR in South Bend and on The Bear in Fort Wayne. In WZOW’s 2001 “Battle of the Bands” contest, Billy’s song, “I Don’t Drink Whiskey,” was selected and re-recorded for a compilation CD, Special Cuts 2002 Best of The Midwest’s Original Rock, sponsored by WZOW, Budweiser and Monastic Chambers Recording Studio in Fort Wayne. In 2002, Billy joined the well-established Faultline, playing rhythm guitar, harmonica and lead vocals. Faultline has opened for Travis Tritt, The Kentucky Head Hunters and The Charlie Daniels Band. In January 2004 Billy toured with Rorey Wesney and The Unwound Band. From 2005 to 2007, he also played with the staff band, Boys from the Country. Visit Billy's website @ www.billylemonsjr.com
Mark Moore — drums — started playing drums at 5, after his mother bought him his first drum set. In high school, he and his buddies started Triple X, a band that played locally. He’s also played with Faultline, FBI (Funky Blues Intuition) and Kaleidoscope. Mark has also done studio recording. His signature song, “Wipeout,” which shows his drum solo skills, is a fan favorite and featured on YouTube.
Originally from Mishawaka, Indiana, Sheila Salyer — vocals —
started singing gospel at the age of 11 with her father A.B. Salyer, traveling throughout the Midwest with two groups, the Harmonaires and the Majestics Quartet. During this time Sheila recorded four albums. Her first love is gospel and she has sang at many churches for many years. At 20, she worked at Audio Services for two years, singing and doing voiceovers for commercials. From 1985 to 1995, she sang with a variety dance group, the Capricorn Band, which was the featured act at the Special Olympics at Notre Dame. In 1997, Sheila performed at the Grand Ole Opry. An eight-year member of the Granger Community Church's vocal team, she is featured on several songs on GCC’s Go to the Rock CD.
Tico Tanguma — vocals, bass guitar —
is originally from Texas and grew up playing all styles of music in both English and Spanish. In 1996, Tico started performing at concerts, opening for many of the bands from the 1950s and 1960s: Chubby Checker, The Association, Rare Earth, Mel McDaniel’s, The Kentucky Headhunters, B.J. Thomas, and the Classic All-Stars. He also liked played bass guitar and sang back-up vocals for The Crests, The Chiffons, Danny and The Juniors, and many other oldies acts. He started playing in bands at the age of 10, as a drummer, and played every weekend for two years. Between 11 and 12, he was on a music TV show on Sunday mornings and opened for the featured Saturday night Spanish music headliners. He started playing bass guitar at 12 in a nightclub band, playing six nights a week for six months before leaving to concentrate on school. Two years late, Tico and his father formed a family band, with Tico playing 12-string guitar and singing. They played together for almost eight years. From 21 to 32, Tico played bass in a Spanish headliner band, performing in Chicago, Indianapolis, Toledo, Grand Rapids, Detroit, Des Moines, and everywhere in between. In 1999, Tico and Freddy Fender were in Nashville together at the Country Music Hall of Fame where Tico sang Before the Next Teardrop Falls for Freddy. While in Nashville Tico also performed at the Nashville Palace and the Broken Spoke. Today, Tico divides his time playing with Fineline and CMR.
MARCH 3, 2012 ~
APRIL 14, 2012
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