Tommy Hancock
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Tommy Hancock is widely regarded as the godfather of West Texas
music.
Born and raised in Lubbock
, Texas
, Hancock's grandmother had him classically trained in violin. But at age 16, Tommy joined the military and traveled overseas as a paratrooper and military policeman. In 1946 he left the service and returned to Lubbock, where he led a popular swing band called the Roadside Playboys. He hired young Charlene Condray as a girl singer in the late 1940s; they were later to wed and have eight children. Together they traveled the Rocky Mountains as The Supernatural Family Band.
In 1980 the Hancock family settled in Austin, Texas
, where they found the local attitudes much to their liking. After a long musical career in his new hometown, in March 2000 Tommy was inducted into the Austin Chronicle Music Awards Hall of Fame. In 2002 The Supernatural Family Band was inducted into the Country Music Association of Texas Hall of Fame.
In the early 1970s, Hancock and his family became followers of Guru Maharaj Ji
.
West Texas
West Texas is a vernacular term applied to a region in the southwestern quadrant of the United States that primarily encompasses the arid and semi-arid lands in the western portion of the state of Texas....
music.
Born and raised in Lubbock
Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock is a city in and the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, United States. The city is located in the northwestern part of the state, a region known historically as the Llano Estacado, and the home of Texas Tech University and Lubbock Christian University...
, Texas
Texas
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, Hancock's grandmother had him classically trained in violin. But at age 16, Tommy joined the military and traveled overseas as a paratrooper and military policeman. In 1946 he left the service and returned to Lubbock, where he led a popular swing band called the Roadside Playboys. He hired young Charlene Condray as a girl singer in the late 1940s; they were later to wed and have eight children. Together they traveled the Rocky Mountains as The Supernatural Family Band.
In 1980 the Hancock family settled in Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
, where they found the local attitudes much to their liking. After a long musical career in his new hometown, in March 2000 Tommy was inducted into the Austin Chronicle Music Awards Hall of Fame. In 2002 The Supernatural Family Band was inducted into the Country Music Association of Texas Hall of Fame.
In the early 1970s, Hancock and his family became followers of Guru Maharaj Ji
Prem Rawat
Prem Pal Singh Rawat , also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge....
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