The Crystal Blue Band

Brian Hebron and the Crystal Blue Band provide family entertainment for your event.  The band does not play bars and lounges.  The band plays a wide variety of country music from the western swing style of Bob Wills to some
songs by todays entertainers such as Alan Jackson and George Strait.

In 1982, Brian Hebron saw an advertisement in the Des Moines Register for a country music stage show near Des Moines looking for entertainers.  He auditioned for the late Bill Mallory.  Bill Mallory liked Brian and had Brian on his
show the first time in September 1982.  He sang two songs, "She Thinks I Still Care" and "All I Have To Offer You Is Me".

Brian Hebron, vocalist/guitar, and his father, David, bass guitar, helped form the Crystal Blue Band in March of 1984.  Bryan Charter, drums, joined in 1989. Norm Riedel, steel guitar, joined the group in 1990.  Brandon Hebron, Brian's son born in 1989, began drumming at the age of 3.  He has become a crowd favorite singing lead and harmony with his dad and playing several instruments.

Brian Hebron, born in 1965, has performed in 11 states.  He has appeared on 3 television shows in Iowa and Missouri.  Brian was on 2 live radio shows, one which was the Ernest Tubb Midnite Jamboree in Nashville, TN.  The show which is on WSM, home of the Grand Ole Opry, is the second longest running country music show in America.  The Midwest Country News publication's readers and fans awarded Brian 3 honors in 1990:  Entertainer of the Year, Male Vocalist, and Musician of the Year.  In 1990, Brian recorded 2 songs he had written at Hilltop Recording Studio in Nashville, "Don't Forget to Break My Heart" and
"There's Gotta Be Someone Like Me".  "There's Gotta Be Someone Like Me" received radio play by Iowa disc jockey, Billy Cole.  In 1995, Brian helped open the show for Country Music Hall of Fame member, Kitty Wells.  Brian released a 10 song cassette in 1996 entitled, "Just Me".  The title was chosen because it was Brian doing all the vocals and instruments on the tape.  Brian has been
featured in pictures and articles in the Midwest Country News publication for years and also in a hardbound book entitled, "Midwest Country News, The First Twelve Years".  Brian has performed dozens of shows with Buddie Boswell's Union Mill Opry since 1984 at their theater and on tour.  The Union Mill Opry is formerly from Edgerton, MO, but is now based out of Idalou, TX, just northeast of Lubbock.  Over the years Brian also appeared on other country music stage shows around the Midwest including Branson, MO.

Together Brian Hebron and the Crystal Blue Band have won Country Group of the Year from the Midwest Country News.  They placed second in a readers choice poll in the Des Moines Register's Datebook for Favorite Country Band.  They have opened the show and were the band for the Grand Ole Opry's Del Reeves, Country Music Hall of Fame member Hank Thompson, Iowa's own Smokey Smith and others.

In 2005, Brian wrote another song that he felt was worth recording.  The song, "Too Many Heartaches, Too Many Goodbyes".  This time Brian and his son Brandon recorded all of the instruments, Brian sang lead, and Brandon added
his harmony.  People at the shows and dances liked the song.  Brian and Brandon decided to turn to Billy Cole once again to see if it was a song that he would play on his radio program.  They asked for his honest opinion so they
would know what to do or not do the next time.  Billy liked the song.  He called them and left a message before they got home from his house.  The song was on the air that night.  KWMT 540AM in Fort Dodge also plays it.  Thank you to everyone playing the song and supporting Iowa entertainers and real country music.

In 2007, Brian and Brandon wrote and recorded "Two More Soldiers Died Today".  The song was written as a tribute to the soldiers and their families.