Subject: Homestead Grays

• Chuck Mead

  December 25, 2008

• Around Hear

  KJHK, Sister Mary Rotten Crotch, The Welterweights, Pure Cane, and Alan Murphy

  June 15, 2000

• Old Dogs

  Lawrence native Chuck Mead pulls some new tricks with BR549.

  February 9, 2006

• The Second Coming

  Ready your devil horns. Kansas City's maddest Musician has returned.

  July 14, 2005

• Stealing Home

  The Negro Leagues Museum provides a great home for memorabilia. But some players feel benched.

  February 3, 2005

• BR549

  Tuesday, December 31, at Liberty Hall.

  December 26, 2002

• Moved Up

  May 21, 2009

• Throwback MP3 of the Week: BR5-49, "Me 'n' Opie (Down By the Duck Pond)"

  Lord, there's not a day that goes by that I don't miss BR5-49. Now, to be fair, the world's greatest hillbilly band wasn't really local. Chuck Mead had fronted Lawrence's Homestead Grays, and was in fact from Lawrence, but BR5-49 was really based out of Nashville. ​The band's first release, the Live From Robert's EP, has a fairly fantastic story. The band got their start at the western wear store, playing for nothing but tips every night for years. When it was released back in 1996, Rolli

  November 11, 2009