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Re: Bennie (or Benny) Johnson

From: Bruce Cowey
Date: September 20, 2005

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the drummer was the youngest player ever to have played with any of the Texas Playboys. He was sixteen at the time. His first name was Phil. I'd met him at McDonnel-Douglas Aircraft company in Long Beach, Ca back in 1989. I'd went to his home there in Long Beach. I met his lovely wife. There he blew my mind showing the pictures and the original instruments he'd played with in the band. He told me that he was the youngest drummer ever to have played professional. I 'd moved to Hawaii in Nov. 89 . I 've lost contact with him. If you knew his first name and maybe I can get hold of him. I live in Austin, Texas. thanks Bruce


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