From Aschendorf, in the Emsland region of northern Germany, Hermann Lammers Meyer is a singer, songwriter, and pedal steel player who has played real country music since 1973. He fell for it as a kid, listening to the American Forces Network radio the G.I.s brought over, and the pedal steel never let him go.

His band, the Emsland Hillbillies, started at a class reunion and became Germany's number one country band.

They were the only German band at the International Country Music Festival in Frankfurt, on stage with Bobby Bare, Charlie Rich, Emmylou Harris, and the Bellamy Brothers.

Texas is the other half of it. He cut "Moonshine Ladies" in Austin with Johnny Gimble, Jimmy Day, and Marcia Ball, and it hit number 6 on KNON in Texas — the first European country musician ever in the Top 20 there. He went on to record at Willie Nelson's Pedernales Studio and Nashville's Starday Studio, with Buddy Emmons, Johnny Bush, and Willie Nelson on his records.

Fifty years on he is still playing live and hosting his Town & Country radio show. He never chased a trend and never quit. Half his heart is in Texas, the other half is in Germany, and you can hear both in every song.

Hermann Lammers Meyer a German steel player with a Texas radio hit and fifty years of Country Music behind him. He plays it straight and he never quit. I respect that.

- Rob | The INDIE Musician