Sawyer Brown

The group’s members were originally part of country pop singer Don King‘s road band. When King stopped touring in 1981, the group decided to stay together. The band played up to five sets a night, six days a week (for a time at Knight’s Corral, on Nolensville Rd., in Nashville, as “Bobby, Mark, and Sandgap”), until they auditioned for the TV show Star Search in 1983. They won the grand prize of $100,000 and a recording contract.