TALES...TEXAS ARTISTS SERIES

"TEXAS ARTISTS SERIES": A MAINES FAMILY AND MAINES BROTHERS BAND RETROSPECTIVE (PART IV)

And now the conclusion of our interview with the Maines Brothers Band and the Maines family:

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101: I know that in recent years you haven't necessarily performed together as a group in public. You have been involved with various endeavors such as "The West Texas Music Hour" on KLLL--but it seems to have been a while since you all have made a concerted effort to do the things that you all used to do. Why is that so for you--and might there be a point in the future where you as a Band might decide to pick up the gauntlet again and do some of the things that you used to do [(Ex.) Recording songs, touring]?

101: I think that it is only right and appropriate at this juncture for each of you to give your advice and wisdom to those wanting to get their foot in the door of the music industry? What, in your opinion, do you feel it will take for them in this current enviornment for them to succeed? What things will they need to have along the way?

101: If you had to look into a crystal ball and see things in the sphere of 5, 10, possibly 20 years down the road--what direction(s) do you see yourselves INDIVIDUALLY as well as the family and the entire network of everyone involved in general taking? For all of you, where do you feel the trail might go from here?

101: (ALL) I want all of you to tell me this--if you all had to go back in time and, in essence, put pictures in a mental scrapbook of things that have happened to you over the years--what do you think the most important pictures in that scrapbook would be? What images above all else would stand out the most and be forever burned in your mind?

C. Banks: Mental pictures...for me, the most important things in my life--the day I got married, the day I became a father...And just a random picture--performing on stage in San Angelo at the Yellow Rose Club with the Maines Brothers Band right in the middle of a set knowing that music doesn't ever get any better than this.

I hope to be at 85 or 95 years old still playing music-- hopefully with Kenny, Lloyd, Donnie, and Jerry (chuckles from both Banks and the band)...

J. Brownlow: When I'm 90 years old, I want to be at the

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