Steven Fromholz
b. 8 June 1945, Temple, Texas, USA. Fromholz's father worked for the Ford Motor Company and the family travelled around the country. At the age of 18, he met Michael Martin Murphey at North Texas State University and they formed the Dallas County Jug Band and then the Michael Murphey Trio. Fromholz became half of Frummox with Don McCrimmon, and their poor-selling 1969 album is prized by collectors. The duo split in 1971 and Fromholz and his wife ran a restaurant in Gold Hill, Colorado. Stephen Stills invited him to join Manassas on the road, but Fromholz left after six months because ‘I'd had too much cocaine and was sick.’ He dedicated a single he recorded for Michael Nesmith's Countryside label, Sweet Janey, to his wife, but the album he made for Nesmith, HOW LONG IS THE ROAD TO KENTUCKY?, was never released. Willie Nelson had a US country hit with Fromholz's song I'd Have To Be Crazy and included him on his live album, THE SOUND IN YOUR MIND. Fromholz's Capitol album, A RUMOUR IN MY OWN TIME, featuring Nelson, Doug Dillard and John Sebastian, is a fine example of outlaw country. He was unsuited to the easy listening arrangements on FROLICKING IN THE MYTH, although the album contained good material. He did, however, sound fine next to Peter Fonda on the soundtrack of the film, OUTLAW BLUES. He recorded an album for Willie Nelson's Lone Star label, JUS’ PLAYIN’ ALONG, and his tribute to Hondo Crouch, the eccentric owner of Luckenbach, Texas, Hondo's Song, featured Nelson and was, surprisingly, released as a single in the UK.