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==Career==

==Career==

With hopes of a musical career of his own, Adams left UNT after two years and moved to [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], where he met John Carrick, whose mother was the owner of Sand Mountain Coffee House.  His first solo performing was at Sand Mountain along with Carrick, Bobbie Jo Gentry, and Jerry Jeff Walker. Adams and Carrick formed "Hayseed" a short lived band experimenting with original songs and then performing in and around Houston and at Alan's Landing.  Once there, Adams met the guitarist Billy Gibbons of The Moving Sidewalks, and played at The Cellar.<ref name=jba/> In late 1969, he moved to [[Midland]], where he joined the house band at The Chateau Club led by Johnny Heartsman, another major influence on Adams' career.  He attended the two-year Howard College in Big Spring, Texas, with the goal of improving his grade-point average so that he could re-enter a university. Meanwhile, he lost his draft deferment during the [[Vietnam War]].<ref name=intv>{{cite web|url=http://www.virtualubbock.com/intJayBoyAdams.html|title=Interview: Jay Boy Adams|publisher=virtuallubbock.com|accessdate=September 3, 2011}}</ref>​

With hopes of a musical career of his own, Adams left UNT after two years and moved to [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], where he met John Carrick, whose mother was the owner of Sand Mountain Coffee House.  His first solo performing was at Sand Mountain along with Carrick, Bobbie Jo Gentry, and Jerry Jeff Walker. Adams and Carrick formed "Hayseed" a short lived band experimenting with original songs and then performing in and around Houston and at Alan's Landing.  Once there, Adams met the guitarist Billy Gibbons of The Moving Sidewalks, and played at The Cellar.<ref name=jba/> In late 1969, he moved to [[Midland]], where he joined the house band at The Chateau Club led by Johnny Heartsman, another major influence on Adams' career.  He attended the two-year Howard College in Big Spring, Texas, with the goal of improving his grade-point average so that he could re-enter a university. Meanwhile, he lost his draft deferment during the [[Vietnam War]].<ref name=intv>{{cite web|url=http://www.virtualubbock.com/intJayBoyAdams.html|title=Interview: Jay Boy Adams|publisher=virtuallubbock.com|accessdate=September 3, 2011}}</ref>​

 

In March 1972, Steve Moss secured Adams a spot with the ZZ Top band in Lubbock. That summer he gained entry to [[Texas Tech University]] in Lubbock to study music and English. ZZ Top's  manager, Bill Ham, soon invited Adams to play for the band at the Municipal Auditorium in Dallas. By 1976, Adams had signed with Atlantic Records, which in 1977 released his first music. After two albums Atlantic did not renew his contract.  Ham then sent Adams to Capricorn Records in Macon, [[Georgia]].  His last recordings were done there with Paul Hornsby producing.  Early in 1981, before the album was completed Capricorn Records filed bandruptsy.  Probably his best unfinished work to date was locked away in the legal vault.  He and his band continued to perform and tour but by 1982 Adams had had enough and withdrew from the music scene.  Adams is known for his ability for storytelling in song, a mixture of blues, [[rock and roll]], [[Country music|country]], and folk music.  In those years, Adams often spent more than half of the year in concert tours.<ref name=jba/> He performed not only with ZZ Top, but the Allman Brothers Band, Marshall Tucker Band, and Joe Cocker. He and Bobby Keys, a saxohone player, had not previously met but toured together for a time with Cocker.<ref name=intv/>  Keys had not been in Lubbock for years, and Adams  invited him to return and play with his band.​

In March 1972, Steve Moss secured Adams a spot with the ZZ Top band in Lubbock. That summer he gained entry to [[Texas Tech University]] in Lubbock to study music and English. ZZ Top's  manager, Bill Ham, soon invited Adams to play for the band at the Municipal Auditorium in Dallas. By 1976, Adams had signed with Atlantic Records, which in 1977 released his first music. After two albums Atlantic did not renew his contract.  Ham then sent Adams to Capricorn Records in Macon, [[Georgia]].  His last recordings were done there with Paul Hornsby producing.  Early in 1981, before the album was completed Capricorn Records filed bandruptsy.  Probably his best unfinished work to date was locked away in the legal vault.  He and his band continued to perform and tour but by 1982 Adams had had enough and withdrew from the music scene.  Adams is known for his ability for storytelling in song, a mixture of blues, [[rock and roll]], [[Country music|country]], and folk music.  In those years, Adams often spent more than half of the year in concert tours.<ref name=jba/> He performed not only with ZZ Top, but the Allman Brothers Band, Marshall Tucker Band, and Joe Cocker. He and Bobby Keys, a saxohone player, had not previously met but toured together for a time with Cocker.<ref name=intv/>  Keys had not been in Lubbock for years, and Adams  invited him to return and play with his band.​

 

By 1982, faced with mounting family obligations, Adams left the music business and avoided music clubs and concerts for most of the following  fifteen years. Instead, he operated and still maintains the company, Roadhouse Transportation, which leases touring coaches to such celebrity singers as Celine Dion, [[Bruce Springsteen]], and the [[Dallas Cowboys]]. In 1986, Adams played with Reba McEntire at the Cattle Baron’s Ball. He moved his family to a ranch in the Texas Hill Country and his business to the town of Comfort in Kendall County, west of [[San Antonio]]. One evening Adams and his wife, Mary F. Adams, attended a show in San Antonio to hear the musician Lee Roy Parnell, who invited Adams to join him on stage. Thereafter, Adams's desire to perform in public was rekindled and became irresistible.<ref name=jba/>​

By 1982, faced with mounting family obligations, Adams left the music business and avoided music clubs and concerts for most of the following  fifteen years. Instead, he operated and still maintains the company, Roadhouse Transportation, which leases touring coaches to such celebrity singers as Celine Dion, [[Bruce Springsteen]], and the [[Dallas Cowboys]]. In 1986, Adams played with Reba McEntire at the Cattle Baron’s Ball. He moved his family to a ranch in the Texas Hill Country and his business to the town of Comfort in Kendall County, west of [[San Antonio]]. One evening Adams and his wife, Mary F. Adams, attended a show in San Antonio to hear the musician Lee Roy Parnell, who invited Adams to join him on stage. Thereafter, Adams's desire to perform in public was rekindled and became irresistible.<ref name=jba/>​