Muzzie braun biography examples

Raised in a remote frame house without electricity or running water in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains, Micky, Gary, Willy and Cody Braun had never heard of The Tonight Show until they appeared on it in 1989.

Micky, the youngest, was 8 at the time. Oldest brother Cody was 12. The band’s lead singer was father Muzzie Braun, himself a member of an all-brother band when he was growing up in Idaho. Muzzie and the Little Braun Boys, all decked out in Stetson hats and matching Western shirts, so charmed the national audience with their old songs of the New West that Johnny Carson had them back a few months later.

“We were a lot more nervous the second time,” recalled fiddle player Cody.

“The first time it was just surreal.”

That shot on the biggest national stage seemed even more removed from the real world a decade later when, based in Austin, Cody and Willy hit the highways hard with Reckless Kelly, while younger brothers Gary and Micky were off in th