GUNSMOKE

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  Welcome to the UK home of Gunsmoke !

Gunsmoke are from South Yorkshire and performed country and western music at venues in and around the North East, South Yorkshire and the Midlands. It is a while now since they finally decided to hang up their boots and saddles and stop the travelling. They now concentrate on producing CD's of their own self-penned country music and just the occasional CD of covers material.

Gunsmoke are a Country and Western trio consisting of John on lead vocals, Ray on bass guitar and Rich on guitar. Both Ray and Rich support John with backing vocals providing the close vocal harmonies that Gunsmoke pride themselves on.

Gunsmoke have only been on the country and western scene for the last four years or so but John, Ray and Rich were first seen performing back in the great days of the club bands back in the sixties when the four and five piece groups were the kings of clubland.

The trio first hit the circuits again at the turn of the century - after a short break of 34 years according to John - playing music from the fifties and sixties under the name of ReRUN, but their love of country music soon had them working hard to generate a professional series of sets for the discerning country and western music enthusiast. Being long time lovers of the songs of the old timers which used to find their way into the 'pop' charts back in the sixties, Gunsmoke developed into an act consisting of mainly traditional country music but always with an open minded approach to music new to the scene. Their extensive list of recordings available elsewhere on the site are testimony to this.

Gunsmoke no longer perform live work but still like to hear from the legion of friends out there that they made when they were on the road. There's a link on the 'Contact Us' page. A direct EMail link to John is also still provided in the drop down menu in the 'Contact Us' tab which can be found at the right hand end of the top menu bar.

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