Western Flyer
Western Flyer was an American country music band founded in 1992 by Danny Myrick (lead vocals, bass guitar), Chris Marion (keyboards, vocals), T. J. Klay (harmonica, mandolin, vocals), Bruce Gust (drums, vocals), Steve Charles (lead guitar, vocals), and Roger Helton (acoustic guitar, banjo, vocals). The band released two albums for Step One Records, as well as six singles. Their highest peaking single is "What Will You Do with M-E?", which reached No. 32 on the Billboard country charts in 1996. After Western Flyer disbanded, Marion joined the Little River Band, and Myrick began writing songs for other artists.
History
Western Flyer was founded in 1992 by lead singer and bass guitarist Danny Myrick and keyboardist Chris Marion. Completing the lineup were harmonicist/mandolinist T.J. Klay, drummer Bruce Gust, lead guitarist Steve Charles, and guitarist/banjoist Roger Helton. The band members met in Nashville at a church where some of them had been playing in the church band. The band took the name Western Flyer from a brand of bicycle.
Western Flyer (boat)
The Western Flyer is a boat most famous for its six-week use by John Steinbeck in his 1940 Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California) expedition that became the basis for his 1951 book The Log from the Sea of Cortez. Called the "most famous fishing vessel ever to have sailed," the 72-foot (22 m) boat was built in Tacoma, Washington in 1937 by the Western Boat Building Company. As of 2015, the privately owned boat is undergoing renovation in Port Townsend, Washington for future use as an educational center in Monterey, California.
Sea of Cortez
Steinbeck chartered the Western Flyer, then captained by fisherman Tony Berry, and put out to sea on the afternoon of March 11, 1940. The vessel started the trip to the Sea of Cortez in a leisurely fashion down the Pacific coast. The boat refueled at San Diego and on March 17 passed Point San Lazaro before making its way down the Pacific side of the Baja California peninsula. It put in at Cabo San Lucas, on the tip of the peninsula, where Steinbeck began collecting specimens.
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- Country Arena released: 1996
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- Hangin' On
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- Born to Be Wild
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- Wal-Mart Parking Lot
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- I Never Met a Woman That I Didn't Like
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- Cowboy Beat
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- Lost in You
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- Against the Grain
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- American Pie
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- (If It Weren't for Country Music) I'd Go Crazy
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- Country Roads
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- I'm in a Hurry
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- Damn the Winter
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- Adams Country Breakdown
- Sugarloaf Mountain Special
