Michael Simmons

As leader of the band Michael Simmons & Slewfoot, Michael was dubbed "The Father Of Country Punk" by Creem Magazine editors in the 1970s. In 1977 he also became a member of Kinky Friedman & The Texas Jewboys for the next decade. He was an editor at the National Lampoon in the '80s where he wrote the popular column "Drinking Tips And Other War Stories." He won an LA Press Club Award in the '90s for investigative journalism, has written for MOJO, LA Weekly, Rolling Stone, Penthouse, High Times, LA Times and The New York Times, and written four sets of liner notes for Bob Dylan, as well as liners for Michael Bloomfield, Phil Ochs, Kris Kristofferson, Mose Allison, Arthur Lee and Love, and others.