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 Robert Smith Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar, and Vocals
| Robert Smith is the leader of the Mixed Company Musical Group. Robert started his musical career at the age of 12 and at the age of 16 formed his first five-piece band called the Torches, which played for
teen hops and local radio stations. In 1962, Robert formed the Count's Band, which was a popular band on the college circuit, playing fraternity and sorority functions.
Over the next several years, Robert would expand his experience in
the music industry by forming other bands such as Three's-A-Crowd,
and the Country Cookin' Band. Over the years, Robert established one of the first country music theatres in Oklahoma called Theatre 66, with his Loose Change Band
as the stage band.
Robert, with his wife Kathy, formed the Raintree County Band and
performed along side such country greats as Mel McDaniel, Sammi
Smith, Wanda Jackson, Jack Green and opened for the legendary
George Jones. Robert's current band of many years is the Mixed Company Band
which now plays weekly at the Western Country Diner in Tulsa. |
 Kathy Smith Steel Guitar Dobro & Vocals | Kathy Smith is a multi-talented musician who sings lead and back-up
vocals, plays steel guitar and the dobro. Kathy started playing steel guitar in Bartlesville, OK when she was nine years old. She found out she enjoyed music and had an ear for it, which made learning the Steel Guitar easy for her.
Kathy furthered her career performing in churches and with gospel
groups. One of her first jobs was performing on a popular Tulsa,
Oklahoma television program called the "John Chick Show." Kathy has played with many along the years and has performed along side many country artists such as Jack Green, Sammi Smith, Wanda
Jackson and has opened for the legendary George Jones. Along with her husband, Robert Smith, Kathy plays regularly with their band of many years, Mixed Company. |
 Gary Moore Guitar & Vocals | Gary Moore grew up in northern Illinois. His two brothers were also very musically inclined. When they were gone, Gary would sneak into their rooms to play their guitars, and taught himself to play. He started playing the drums and then played bass guitar and keyboards.
During his high school years he was a member of various groups. After high school he traveled around the southern part of the United States doing a solo act playing at Holiday Inns.
In the early 80's, Gary moved to Tulsa where he played with the Tony Twist Band, the Zigfields house band. He played at the Tulsa Hilton for 5 years as a soloist. Later in the 80's Gary became friends with Buck Trent and played bass guitar with him for seven years. Gary has had the opportunity to work with many artists such as Pretty Miss Norma Jean, Tom T.Hall, Gus Hardin, Faron Young, Mel McDaniel and the Mills Brothers. He has been a song writer for 30 years and has written many songs, a few of which have been recorded.
Gary currently lives in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, with his wife, Susie. Gary believes that "music is the key to the soul". |
 Tony Price Keyboard & Vocals | Tony Price was entertaining audiences with his piano playing before he was in his teens, with his solo work and by providing keyboard accompaniment for groups and singers of various styles of music. When it comes to his own vocals, he is probably at his best and most comfortable with the blues even though he seems to have the most fun performing songs recorded by musicians such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, and Ray Charles.
Tony prefers to put it another way. He says, "It makes no difference whether its country and western, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, jazz, western swing or gospel, there isn't any kind of music I can't mess up."
When watching and listening to him perform, you realize that he is having loads of fun which is contagious to the other musicians and the audience. |
 Don Sullivan Bass Guitar Webmaster | (Don Sullivan) I was fortunate to grow up in the 1940s so I could be influenced by big band music, western swing, network radio (no TV back then) and the classical music my mother played on the piano. I started music lessons at an early age, and spent some time on the piano and accordion. I was also fortunate to be in high school in the 1950s, when Rock & Roll music dominated our lives. I started playing piano in bands in the late 50s and graduated to bass guitar in 1961. Meanwhile, I won a music scholarship to TU and played in the concert and marching bands, as well as the Tulsa Philharmonic for a season.
In 1970 I became a road musician for the Jim Halsey Management Company, participating in nationwide tours and appearances with Don White, Roy Clark, Diana Trask, Ernest Tubb, The Compton Brothers, The Hagar Twins, Jodi Miller, J.J. Cale, Jerry Reed, and Terri Lynn. I did a two-year Holiday Inn tour with "A Grain of Salt," a bluegrass comedy band which also backed Billy "Crash" Craddock on his Arkansas tour. I was also a spokesman and demonstrator for AceTone Amplifiers, a division of Hammond Organ Company.
Robert Smith and I go way back, when I played with his Country Cookin' band in the late 70s. Naturally I jumped at the chance to play with him again, so I'll be here as long as they can put up with me. I might mention in passing that I am also a commercial pilot, with type ratings in three models of Convairs, DC-4, B-34 Bomber (Howard 350), and gliders. I flew a Convair for the Sheraton Inns for three years, and accumulated some DC-4, DC-6 and DC-3 time in various flying jobs. That was a grand era of flying that is no longer available to most pilots. Today, I am designing and building Internet web pages for various clients nationwide, including this one for Mixed Company. |
 Adam York Percussion | Adam York is a 1997 graduate of Pryor High School. After high school, Adam worked several different jobs, including auto-body paint and repair, Land Surveying, and a logistics manager, until going to work for his family's music store in 2004 (The Music Store, at 31st and Mingo).
Adam started playing the drums in 2002. Whether it be on a practice pad or a drumset, Adam tries to play a little each day. Drumming influences include: Max Roach, Louie Bellson, Charlie Watts, John Bonham, Stuart Copeland and Neil Peart, just to name a few. Adam continues to make progress with his passion for drumming and his enthusiasm for playing.
Adam is married to the former Misty Loukanis of Broken Arrow. They have been together since 2001. They have two children, a son Joseph Lawrence, and daughter Addilynn Rose. Adam owes his wife Misty a great deal of gratitude for her understanding of the many long and crazy hours in what we call the music business. |