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Latest Featured Single - Chicken Run!

Chicken Run by Bobby Giles & Texas Gales Bluegrass Band

Chicken Run

Bobby Giles & Texas Gales Bluegrass Band

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Chicken Run Upbeat, Driving, Traditional Bluegrass Written by Bobby Giles BJG Publishing / BMI ISRC: TCAGI2254064 Upcoming album: In Tennessee Bell Buckle Records Bobby Giles - Guitar, Lead vocals Jim VanCleve ~ Fiddle, Mandolin, Background Vocals Steve Loggie ~ Banjo Lenny Nichols ~ Acoustic Bass Carl Josefy ~ Mandolin, Background Vocals Produced

Chicken Run Upbeat, Driving, Traditional Bluegrass Written by Bobby Giles BJG Publishing / BMI ISRC: TCAGI2254064 Upcoming album: In Tennessee Bell Buckle Records Bobby Giles - Guitar, Lead vocals Jim VanCleve ~ Fiddle, Mandolin, Background Vocals Steve Loggie ~ Banjo Lenny Nichols ~ Acoustic Bass Carl Josefy ~ Mandolin, Background Vocals Produced by Jim VanCleve, VanCleve Productions Recorded at Covenant Recording, Amarillo, Texas Glenn Storlie, Proprietor Encouraged by the successful release of their first single, "In Tennessee," Bobby Giles & Texas Gales, in conjunction with Jim VanCleve, producer-performer of "Appalachian Road Show," and Valerie Smith, the owner of Bell Buckle Records, present their second bluegrass single, "Chicken Run"  in advance of singer, songwriter, and performer Bobby Giles' album "The Music of Life," scheduled for release in the early Fall of 2022." 

"As a young boy growing up in Texas, Sunday dinners at the family farm were highly popular. My grandmother, Little Mama, awarded aunts, uncles, cousins, and even some lucky neighbors the best-fried chicken ever made. She was an incredibly adept chicken ring-necker, deliberate and effective. The chicken coup was out by the barn, but lots of those birds would hang around the back door, which, unfortunately for them, was attached to the kitchen. If we arrived early enough, we would have ringside seats to Carson County's most popular spectator sport starring Maybelle Burns. She'd hit that screen door with a purpose, and brother, the hunt was on! 

Lyrics She had on her bonnet, high-tops cinched up tight. Her water it was boilin she was ready for the fight She commenced to movin, dress up to her knees Every bird in that back yard was headin for the trees Feathers flyin, chickens cryin, where's the slowest one Grandma closin in a shoutin 'Kingdom Come'--Chicken Run

Ya know, the slowest ones always tasted mighty good. Special memories." -- Bobby Giles (Bobby Giles & Texas Gales Bluegrass Band)

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Chicken Run

Upbeat, Driving, Traditional Bluegrass

Written by Bobby Giles

BJG Publishing / BMI TCAGI2254064

Upcoming album: In Tennessee

Bell Buckle Records

Bobby Giles - Guitar, Lead vocals

Jim VanCleve ~ Fiddle, Mandolin, Background Vocals

Steve Loggie ~ Banjo

Lenny Nichols ~ Acoustic Bass

Carl Josefy ~ Mandolin, Background Vocals

Produced by Jim VanCleve, VanCleve Productions

Recorded at Covenant Recording, Amarillo, Texas

Glenn Storlie, Proprietor 

Encouraged by the successful release of their first single, "In Tennessee," Bobby Giles & Texas Gales, in conjunction with Jim VanCleve, producer-performer of "Appalachian Road Show," and Valerie Smith, the owner of Bell Buckle Records, present their second bluegrass single, "Chicken Run" in advance of singer, songwriter, and performer Bobby Giles' album "The Music of Life," scheduled for release in the early Fall of 2022.

"As a young boy growing up in Texas, Sunday dinners at the family farm were highly popular. My grandmother, Little Mama, awarded aunts, uncles, cousins, and even some lucky neighbors the best-fried chicken ever made. She was an incredibly adept chicken ring-necker, deliberate and effective. The chicken coup was out by the barn, but lots of those birds would hang around the back door, which, unfortunately for them, was attached to the kitchen. If we arrived early enough, we would have ringside seats to Carson County's most popular spectator sport starring Maybelle Burns. She'd hit that screen door with a purpose, and brother, the hunt was on!

 Lyrics 
She had on her bonnet,  
high-tops cinched up tight.  
Her water it was boilin  
she was ready for the fight  
She commenced to movin,  
dress up to her knees  
Every bird in that backyard  
was headin for the trees  
Feathers flyin, chickens cryin,  
where's the slowest one  
Grandma closin in a shoutin  
'Kingdom Come'--Chicken Run  

Ya know, the slowest ones always tasted mighty good. Special memories." -- Bobby Giles  
(Bobby Giles & Texas Gales Bluegrass Band)

Bobby Giles talks about "Chicken Run"

Watch - Bobby Giles & Texas Gales "In Tennessee"

Video Information

Steve Loggie -- Banjo 
Seth Taylor -- Mandolin 
Lisa Giles -- Bass 
Jim VanCleve -- Fiddle 
Bobby Giles -- Guitar 

Location: Lebanon, Tennessee 
Camera work -- Micah Schweinsberg 
Editor-- Micah Schweinsberg 

"It was plenty hot and we were filmin out in an open field...I was dressed for Winter--Black Stetson, a dress coat and a long-sleeve shirt...what you don't see is my shirt was soaked with sweat in every spot not visible...also, Lisa doesn't actually play bass and never even held one til that very afternoon...we were short-handed so Jim asked her to stand in and coached her through the entire video...she did mighty good!" - Bobby Giles

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Bobby Giles introduces his latest single "In Tennessee"

Bobby Giles and Texas Gales

Bobby Giles (Bluegrass Singer, Songwriter and Guitarist)

BOBBY GILES & TEXAS GALES

A gale is defined as "a very strong wind" and "a burst of sound." When one thinks of the windswept Texas plains and the iconic culture of the region, it invokes a sense of timelessness, that of strength and passion of a uniquely American, western nobility. These storied Texas winds carry the sounds, the songs, and the ghosts of yesterday across the land. They bring the tales and legends of bygone storytellers straight to the hearts, souls, and ears of the younger generations who will be inspired to retell their unique versions of these ancient poems.  

And yet,  a gale is also something to be reckoned with; it is forceful, it demands your attention and so does the music of Bobby Giles  &  Texas Gales. 

Bobby's father Marion Murray Giles was a conductor on the Santa Fe Railroad. He loved the railroad, his family, football, quail huntin', fishin', and music. He taught Bobby the importance of being passionate about everything he does. Bobby and his brother Dan were proud sons of 'ManyMilesGiles' in his sharp conductor's uniform. One day he brought Bobby a shiny new Kay Sunburst dreadnought. Bobby taught himself to play by watching the Honest Jess and Ernest Tubb shows on Saturdays, every Gospel quartet show he could find on Sunday morning before church, and by emulating the sounds that filled his bedroom from his transistor radio.

His grandpa's name was Virgil but everyone called him "Pa." Not long after Bobby got his first guitar, Pa came by the house and took him to the fairgrounds where a bluegrass band was playing and Bobby never forgot their 3-part harmonies and the chords their guitar player played. He went home that night and started learning the value of practice! 

Like most young musicians, Bobby had grandiose aspirations of being the next 'big deal", but he was also a reasonably decent football player, and that took the center stage until his playing days were over at the University of Texas. Luckily for us, he never quit playing those chords he learned from that bluegrass guitar player at the fairgrounds. 

Coming forward to present times, Bobby pursues his love for bluegrass music through songwriting, performing, and recording. He recently has had the honor and privilege of being produced by award-winning fiddle player and member of Appalachian Road Show Jim VanCleve. Bobby Giles and Texas Gales have recently teamed up with Bell Buckle Records to release his latest upcoming  album, "The Music In Life." 

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