“The son of migrant farmers from South Texas, Head moved with his family to San Marcos when he was a high schooler and sought out musicians who shared an affinity for the hard-driving rhythm and blues he grew up loving. His first band was a trio with [Tommy] Bolton and [Gerry] Gibson called the Treys. Even after adding [Dan] Buie, [Bill] Pennington and [Clyde] Causey (who joined the service after high school and was replaced by George Frazier), the band was called the Treys. But one day a radio announcer mistakenly introduced them as ‘the Traits’ and the name stuck. ‘It didn't feel right being in a six-piece band called the Treys,’ Buie says… Around 1960, the frontman asked that his name be put before the band's and they became Roy Head and the Traits. ‘Roy was 110 percent into making a living from music,’ Buie says, ‘but the rest of us kinda had the attitude that we were having fun and all, but it would soon be time to go to college and get jobs’” (Michael Corcoran, Austin American-Statesman, Oct. 20, 2007).
Roy Head and the Traits “Treat Her Right”
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