Michael Hearne’s destiny has been tangled in wire and wood since he first laid his hands on a guitar at 7 years old. With a natural ear for harmony and an aptitude for picking, it wasn’t long before he was a fixture at parties and local events in his childhood hometown of Dallas, and by 16 he set out as a touring musician. He toured with Michael Martin Murphey’s band in the early ’80s, and went on to lead his own bands as well as to make his name as a esteemed songwriter, with his songs being covered by the likes of Jerry Jeff Walker Gary P. Nunn and Johnny Rodriguez as well as by his uncle and aunt, Bill and Bonnie Hearne. In addition to his extensive solo catalog, he’s also recorded and toured as a duo act with Shake Russell, and for the last two decades has hosted his own Big Barn Dance Music Festival in his beloved adopted hometown of Taos, New Mexico — and much more recently, also just up the road a piece in Bryan, Texas!
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