BR549 (originally spelled BR5-49) was an American country rock band founded in 1993.

Watch Jr. Samples on BR-549 for some down-home country comedy.

Mar 17, 2025 · When Dick Clark tells you to do something, you do it. We had taken our band name from the recurring skit on Hee Haw, in which Junior Samples attempted to sell the same used car week …

Jul 22, 2024 · In 1969 he was asked to join the cast of the country variety show “Hee-Haw.” He developed a character made famous by his bumbling delivery often forgetting lines and messing up …

Born in 1926 in Cumming, Georgia, Alvin Samples Jr. was a carpenter, sawmill worker, moonshiner, and stock car driver who dropped out of school in sixth grade. Samples stardom can be credited to a fish. …

BR549 (originally stylized as BR5-49) is an American country music band formed in 1993 in Nashville, Tennessee, by guitarists and vocalists Gary Bennett and Chuck Mead, known for reviving traditional …

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BR549 was an American country rock band founded in 1993. It originally consisted of Gary Bennett, Don Herron, "Smilin'" Jay McDowell, Chuck Mead, and "Hawk" Shaw Wilson. Bennett and McDowell left...

BR549 would set up in the window of Robert's and play the long night away. The swelling throng and the downtown pulse led to their signing with Arista and the first EP in 1966, Live From Robert's. And they …

BR5-49 honed their performance skills at Robert’s Western Wear, a boutique/bar on Nashville’s Lower Broadway. Live From Robert’s captures those early days, complete with overstated tavern clamor …