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Rock’n at The Rock, Lake Travis, Texas
My Great Escape – Freddy Powers
“All I Want To Do Is Sing My Song” from the “My Great Escape” Album by Freddy Powers.
Singer/Songwriter/producer/musician born in Duncan, Oklahoma and raised in Seminole, Texas. Freddy holds many BMI and CMA Awards, including CMA’s Triple Play Award, Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame and Texas Guitar Association Lifetime Achievement Award. Freddy’s songs have been recorded by such legendary artists as Merle Haggard. George Jones, Willie Nelson, the late great Ray Charles, The Wilburn Brothers, Janie Fricke, Rattlesnake Annie, along with new comers John Cody, Pauline Reese, Big and Rich and so many more.
Though born in Oklahoma Freddy is a true “Texan” all the way with several famous Texas songs including the title track for James Michener’s move “Texas”. Other “Texas Themed” songs include “Texas and Oklahoma”, “My San Antonio Rose”, and most recently “Texas All The Way” and “One Less Honky Tonk In Texas” Texas Music Chart topper recorded by Pauline Reese.
Freddy lives in Austin, Texas, where he continues to contribute to the Texas music scene, his fellow musicians. His latest song recorded by Scotty Joss “Back Playing Honky Tonk Again” says it all for Freddy. For more information on Freddy’s 50 plus year career, check out his website:
Diagnosed with Parkinson Disease in 2004, Freddy vows to help in research and aide in the needs of other central Texas Parkinson patients.
Special Guest Shake Russell SXSW Pickin’ Party 2009
Freddy, Black-eyed-pea and Cabbage Pickin’ Party 2010
Discography:
“I Always Get Lucky With You
“Epic, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Kenney Chesney, Mark Knophler
Country Jazz Singer Album, Freddy Powers
“Friend in California”
Epic, Merle Haggard
Country Jazz Singer Album, Freddy Powers
“This Time I Really Do”
Epic, Merle Haggard
Country Jazz Singer Album, Freddy Powers
“TEXAS”
Epic, Merle Haggard
“Okie From Muskogee Is Comin’ Home”
Epic, Merle Haggard
“This Song Is For You”
Epic, Merle Haggard
“Let’s Chase Each Other Around The Room Tonight”
Epic, Merle Haggard
“A Place To Fall Apart”
Epic, Merle Haggard
“Little Hotel Room”
Epic, Merle Haggard
Columbia, Ray Charles
Country Jazz Singer Album, Freddy Powers
“All I Want To Do Is Sing My Songs”
Epic, Merle Haggard
“Natural High”
Epic, Merle Haggard
Country Jazz Singer Album, Freddy Powers
“You Don’t Love Me Anymore”
Epic, Merle Haggard
Country Jazz Singer Album, Freddy Powers
“Ridin’ High”
Epic, Merle Haggard
Columbia, Janie Frickie
Country Jazz Singer Album, Freddy Powers
“Man From Another Time”
Epic, Merle Haggard
“Still Missing You”
Unforgettable Merle Haggard
Capital, Merle Haggard
“1929″
Epic, Merle Haggard
“More Than This Old Heart Can Take”
Epic, Merle Haggard
“High On Love”
Columbia, Jane Fricke
“Amber Waves Of Grain”
Epic, Merle Haggard
“Wouldn’t That Be Something”
Epic, Merle Haggard, Freddy Powers
“Somewhere Down the Line”
Epic, Merle Haggard
“Shotgun And The Pistol”
Epic, Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson
“Silver Eagle”
Epic, Merle Haggard
George Jones
“Lonely Night”
Sony, Merle Haggard
“It’s Cold In California Tonight”
Epic, Merle Haggard
Leona Williams
“My San Antonio Rose”
Country Jazz Singer
In Orbit
“Don’t Care Anymore”
Country Jazz Singer
In Orbit
“Texas And Oklahoma”
Stop the Truck
Ray Benson
Country Jazz Singer
In Orbit
“Blue Jungle”
Curb, Merle Haggard
“Bar In Bakersfield”
Curb, Merle Haggard
“Ol Country Singer”
Hag/Smith,
Freddy Powers And Merle Haggard
“Filthy Rich”
Warner Bro.
Big and Rich
“Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn”
Hag/Smith, Freddy Powers
and Merle Haggard
“One Less Honky Tonk”
Paradora Records, Pauline Reese
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
“The Truth About You”
Johnny Bush
Pauline Reese
Rogers and Hammerhead
“The Legend of Django”
Rogers and Hammerhead
“I Don’t Want To Say Goodbye”
Patty David
Rogers and Hammerhead
“The Romantic Waltz”
Rogers and Hammerhead
“Me and the Drummer”
Merle Haggard
Willie Nelson
Doug Supernaw
Rogers and Hammerhead
“If I Needed You”
Rattlesnake Annie
Scott Joss
Rogers and Hammerhead
“Someone Should Have Told Him”
Rogers and Hammerhead
“No Dancing”
Pauline Reese
Rogers and Hammerhead
“Texas All the Way”
Rogers and Hammerhead
“Angel of My Dreams”
Rogers and Hammerhead
“Springtime and the Fall”
Rogers and Hammerhead
“Hard Time Letting Go”
Rose Maddox
Rogers and Hammerhead
“Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn”
Freddy Powers, Merle Haggard
Rogers and Hammerhead
“On the Road to My Heart”
Merle Haggard
Brent Allen
“So Little to Say”
Rogers and Hammerhead
“Water”
Texas Girls Choir
Santa Why Can’t Everyday Be Christmas
Texas Girls Choir
“Happy Birthday to the Lord”
Texas Girls Choir
