Gram Parsons Derry Down will celebrate Gram's Birthday November 2, 2024. Please join us as we welcome The Buster Cousins Band (Tim Kelliher), and the legendary Jon Corneal.  Doors at 6:30 Show at 7:30, cake will be served during intermission. 

Tim Kelliher (AKA Buster Cousins) was born in Swampgoat, Florida in February 1954 by the old hanging tree. He became interested in music when Elvis and The Beatles came around.  He has had several major influences, but clearly the influences of The Allman Brothers and Buffalo Springfield are evident in his music.

Tim Kelliher, a singer, guitarist, songwriter, bandleader, record producer and studio engineer with decades of experience in Central Florida and beyond.  "if that one note is played with the right kind of sincerity.”meld solos into what works – not what “wows.” That has been enough to put him on bandstands with some of the biggest names in music, from Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bo Diddley to road-tested rockabilly king Commander Cody.

In the early 1990s, Kelliher was the backbone of a formidable house band at The Junk Yard, a much beloved Central Florida blues club that booked such renowned stars as harmonica man Carey Bell, Nappy Brown (“Night Time Is the Right Time”), Lester Chambers and a guitar prodigy named Derek Trucks.
“Tim Kelliher is, by far, one of the most unsung blues guitar heroes in Florida,” says promoter Adam Shipley, president of New Orleans-based Hep Cat Entertainment, who booked many of those Junk Yard shows. “He delivered every time and is always a true professional who can – and does -- ‘rip it’ whenever he plays.” Along the way, Kelliher has written, recorded and performed his own songs in bands that include the Snooks, one of Orlando’s most highly regarded acts of the 1970s, Skin N Bone, the Galloway-Kelliher blues band and the Buster Cousins Band. The latter is Kelliher’s collaboration with his guitar-slinging cousin Mark Emerick, of the Commander Cody band.

An Auburndale, FL native Jon is a treasured legend.  Jon Corneal-original member of the Int'l Submarine Band, Flying Burrito Brothers, Dillard and Clark, recorded with Loretta Lynn, Kitty Wells, Warren Zevon. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jon-corneal-mn0000258918/biography