Dave Perryman & The Country Revue has played at the Missouri and Kansas State Fairs for many years and will delight Benton County with a performance at the Warsaw Community Building on November 9. The band will play about 30 songs paying tribute to Johnie Cash, Ray Price, Conway Twitty and Hank Williams.
Perryman’s wife, Judith, will narrate information about these popular stars’ songs including why they were recorded. She oversees research and narration for all shows.
Members of the band include Perryman who sings and plays rhythm guitar, Doug Cole who sings and plays bass guitar, Rick Weaver on drums and Terry Wood on steel guitar. Wood has also written books about the steel guitar and been in steel guitar contests. The group has played in many venues in Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas and hope to get established in the local area.
“In the 1970's, when I was a lot younger, I worked for different radio stations opening for shows that the stations were involved in,” said Perryman. “I did this for 10 years until I found that I was going to be a father, and I left show business, moved to a family farm, raising cattle and kids for 35 years. Then about seven years ago, Terry Wood asked me to sing on his steel guitar show. I didn’t think I had it in me after all those years, but I tried it and got along good. We booked a couple of dances and put together a band and have been playing ever since.”
Perryman said that although the band also does some old-time rock ‘n roll from the 50's and 60's, they mostly perform tribute songs of old-time country classics with some occasional songs of George Strait. Some of the stars Perryman opened for back in the 1970's included Mel Tillis, Freddie Hart, Billy Crash Craddock, Margo Smith and T.G. Shephard. He has also opened for Mickey Gilley, Johnny Lee, George Jones, Jean Shepard and Earnest Tubb. He has worked with Conway Twitty, Jr. and other Nashville acts. He worked for KAYQ Country Plus Radio in Kansas City, MO; KTOW Country Radio in Tulsa, OK; and KBIL in Liberty, MO. He has played at the Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Cains Ball Room in Tulsa, and Will Rogers Roundup Club, Claremore, OK.
Tammy McCaslin, a Benton County resident, has been friends with members of the band who are from Conway, Missouri, for 50 years. She said that Perryman’s and her kids used to play together. She told Perryman that she would take care of publicity for the show on November 9.
The Warsaw performance will run from 7 to 9 P.M. Admission is $10, but senior citizen tickets are $5, and kids 12 and under are free. Some of the show sponsors are giving out a few free tickets to the show. Sponsors include Jessica’s Fish Camp, Deer Rest Campground, Beth’s Osage Mini Mart, Pitts Houses Inc., Maples Ford, T&K Automotive, All American Heating & Cooling, PDR Paintless Dent Repair, G&W Country Mart, Main Street Spirits, Benton County Tire, and The Train Station.
Concessions will be provided with proceeds going to Forgiven and Free Ministries. This ministry helps women and children dealing with homelessness, domestic violence, substance abuse and recent incarcerations. Last year the organization opened Debra’s House of Hope in Warsaw – a yearlong recovery and Christian discipleship program.
