Banjo Boyd Music: May 2016

On November 15, 1984 I married the love of my life, Debbie. It was only a short time later that I adopted her eight year old son Kevin as my own.

In junior high Kevin was in band for three years and played percussion. He became very interested in drums. One night I was playing at the Wylie Opry and at the end of the night the drummer made a comment to Kevin that he would sell his complete drum set for $300 because he was moving out of town and didn't want to have to load them up. Kevin came to us and said, "Dad, mom, I have $100. Would you pay the other $200?" We did, and before long he was spending hours and hours in the garage jamming to everything on the radio!

Kevin began playing for a country band I was part of and played his first paying gig at age 14. He made $50 for playing two hours. That was exciting for a 14 year old. He went on to play other venues with various bands, including Larry Walls and ET Switch, Richard Yazell's Band, Mike Grigsby's Home Town Christmas and Tridens Prairie, Wade White and the Plain Label Band, Robert Joe Vandygriff, J.D. Moss and Ace Duece, Post Oak Savannah, Gary Porterfield, Karl Louis and the Blues Drivers, and the Wade White Acoustic Group. He also sat in with various bands I was a part of. But his dream was to play in a Christian band, and that came true in 2014 when he became part of the Praise and Worship Band at East Paris Baptist Church under the direction of Ryan Clark.