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Tex Banes’ musical career spans almost 50 years. He helped organize the first country music club in Australia, and performed there as a backup musician.
In 1945 he formed Tex Banes and the Hayseeds, a legendary Australian hillbilly group. They were known for their distinctive stage dress, which included corn-cob pipes, ragged pants held up with rope and huge safety pins, floppy felt hats, tattered bandannas and long wooly beards of questionable authenticity.
Although the Hayseeds were always a loosely-organized group, with members coming and going all the time, they still perform from time to time to appreciative audiences in Australia.
Despite his popularity, Tex has never pursued a full-time musical career. In fact, he has never recorded a commercial album. Although he performs both solo and with the Hayseeds in concerts, most of his music is still offered to benefit various charity causes.
For years he worked on farms in the country around Melbourne, and after some time spent working in a leather factory he took a job at Foster’s, a Melbourne brewery best known in this country for Foster’s Lager. He retired in 1986 after 37 years at the brewery.
A mild heart attack in the spring of 1987 forced him to cancel his trip last year, but he’s back to full speed again, he assured a reporter this week. “I’ve taken care of myself, saving up my energy for this trip.”
He loves his retirement, he said, because it gives him more time to travel. Tex said his friends call him an “international entertainer,” because he entertains everywhere he
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