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A native of
Bryan, Texas, Johnny graduated from Texas A&M with a Bachelor's
Degree in Business Administration. He later earned a Secondary
Teaching Certificate from Sam Houston State University. Johnny gave
21 years of his life to this country proudly serving in the United
States Air Force as a pilot and officer. |
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He served two tours in
Vietnam where he flew B-52's and C-130's. A
decorated officer with Four Clusters to the Air
Medal and the distinguished Flying Cross,
he has served as a ROTC instructor at Southwest Texas State (now
Texas State) and at the Officer Training School at Lackland Air
Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Johnny retired as a lieutenant
colonel and devoted his life fully to the Country Music that he has
always been involved with. Through all of this, he has managed to
keep the Nu-Notes going strong for well over 30years. Johnny is the
former owner of the Melody Ranch in Waco, Texas and has owned the
Texas Hall of Fame in Bryan, Texas since 1978. |
| Thirty years ago when the Texas Country Music Scene was abundant
in talent and copious in spirit, legendary artists and aspiring
young singers could be seen and heard in a variety of venues. These
Honky-Tonks were alive with animated enthusiasts and Country
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Places like the Skyline Club, Dessau Hall, The Broken
Spoke, The Rocking M and the Gils Club were but a few of the renowed
establishments in which Texas Country thrived. Johnny Lyon is a man
that understands and respects this storied history - a man who has
lived within this history and around the Texas Country Music Culture
for many years. The consummate professional performer, Johnny has entertained
thousands of Country Music fans with brilliant
renditions of the True Country Classics. |
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With the same
band he formed in high school - the Country Nu-Notes-
Johnny is still hitting the road, playing in and
around Texas, helping to keep the classic country
sound alive in a commercial world that sometimes
seems destined to forget its roots. A commercial
world from which many celebrated Honky-Tonks have
long since faded as the sound of Popular Country
Music becomes more and more pasteurized. |
Thankfully, there are still artists who, like Johnny Lyon
and the Country Nu-Notes, are determined to continue the
important, articulate and unique message that Country
Western Music was founded upon. In the traditions of
pioneers like Bob Wills, Hank Williams, Ray Price, Willie
Nelson, Lefty Frizzell and George Jones, these artists are
striving to tell and re-tell purely American stores despite
an ever-increasing, fad-driven, consumer culture. |
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