Muzzie braun biography of barack

Raised in a remote frame house without electricity or running water in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains, Micky, Gary, Willy and Cody Braun had never heard of “The Tonight Show” until they appeared on it in 1989.

Micky, the youngest, was 8 at the time. Oldest brother Cody was 12. The band’s lead singer was father Muzzie Braun, himself a member of an all-brother band when he was growing up in Idaho. Muzzie and the Little Braun Boys, all decked out in Stetson hats and matching Western shirts, so charmed the national audience with their old songs of the New West that Johnny Carson had them back a few months later.

“We were a lot more nervous the second time,” recalls fiddle player Cody, now 36.

“The first time it was just surreal.”

Twenty-four years later, that shot on the biggest national stage seems even more removed from the real world, as Cody and Willy hit the highways hard and heavy with their Austin-based band Reckless Kelly, while youn