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Hylo Brown has received several honors posthumously: In 2003, just weeks after his death, he was inducted into the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America's Preservation Hall of Greats. [5] In 2009, he received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the International Bluegrass Music Association. [6]
The Hi-Lo Country is a 1998 Western film directed by Stephen Frears, starring Billy Crudup, Penélope Cruz, Woody Harrelson, Cole Hauser, Sam Elliott, Patricia Arquette, Enrique Castillo, and Katy Jurado. It is set in post-World War II New Mexico and is based on the Western novel by Max Evans.
Harrelson at the 2009 premiere of Zombieland. Woody Harrelson is an American actor who made his film debut as an uncredited extra in Harper Valley PTA (1978). His breakthrough role was as bartender Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom Cheers (1985–1993), which garnered Harrelson a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series from a total of five nominations. [1]
Born in Milwaukee in 1929 to a family of musicians, Puerling had piano lessons but was a largely self-taught musician. A fan of vocal groups like Mel Torme's The Mel-Tones, the Modernaires and the Four Freshmen, Puerling formed a vocal of his own during this time (The Shades), featuring baritone Bob Strasen who would become one of the original Hi-Lo's.
The Hi-Lo Country was widely cited as a "classic Western" in the press. [43] Stephen Holden of The New York Times said, "In its best moments the movie feels like an epic hybrid of Red River and The Last Picture Show." [44] In 1999, Arquette returned to familiar territory with the genre that began her career, in Stigmata, a horror film, in the ...
He is a Tejano and Texas country music singer, infusing his music with Latin sounds, and even singing verses of songs in Spanish. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was one of country music's most successful male artists, recording a string of hit songs, such as "You Always Come Back to Hurting Me," "Desperado," "Down on the Rio Grande" and "Foolin'."
Walser was born in Brownfield, Texas and raised in Lamesa. [2] A roots musician since he was 11 years old, Walser became an accomplished guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. . He started his first band, The Panhandle Playboys, at age 16, and shared bills with another aspiring Texas singer, Buddy Hol
Gene Puerling (1929–2008) and Don Shelton (1934-Present) had formed part of Puerling's vocal group, The Hi-Lo's, some years previously, [3] though Shelton was a 1959 replacement for Hi-Lo's member Bob Strasen.