When I was 13 years old I played rhythm guitar in a band called THE RAVENS. The lead guitar player was my best friend Anthony Reina. Anthony was killed in a car accident when I was about 15 years old, after that I was never much interested in playing music again.

I was in my mid forty’s when my wife gave me a guitar for Christmas. I took my guitar to work, and  Daryl and I started playing’ a little bit.  He said, "well I got and old fiddle I bought at a flea market, it  might sound good if we had a fiddle player". Well I was elected.

I had never even held a fiddle in my life. I got some fiddle videotapes and started working on it back in 1997. I took to it like a duck to water. Then I went to a Johnny Gimble workshop in Waco, Texas for about a week. I worked with him, Randy Elmore and a bunch of other great fiddle players that were there.., and just kept working on it.., started taking lessons and it finally started coming around.

He got his first gig as a solo act playing and singing in a local bar that all the old cowboys would hang out. This allowed Daryl to fine tune his vocal ability by singing songs of legends such as Hank, Lefty, Merle and any other songs requested by the local cowboys.

In 1983 He joined the Houston Fire Department where he has been now for several years and has made a very successful career as a Fire Fighter.

1998 brought the big break that Daryl had always dreamed off and which now allowed him to get paid for all that hard work he had put in playing free. By chance, Daryl met a lady named Treva Black who asked him if he could help her out on a Gig her band had been booked on, because her lead singer had taken ill. Ms. Black was so impressed with Daryl’s singing that she asked him if he would join her band. The band was only a 3 piece band but this three piece band would be the birth and beginning of what is now the “Texas RoadRunner Band”.

Over the years there have been many changes in the band but Daryl’s singing has remained the nucleus . Some menbers have moved on to other bands, some were lost to relocation due to jobs, but the Texas Road Runners survived. The band is even stronger now then ever before, with the addition of a steel guitar, Fiddle, and Saxophone has allowed Daryl to fully utilize his genuine singing ability which has created the traditional county sound that makes Daryl Cloud and the Texas Road Runners the best sound in Texas.

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Jaime Flores

Life on a ranch was never dull especially if your Grandparents were true die-hard Democrats and heavily active in local politics. There was always music and festivities at our ranch surrounding meeting, fund raisers, elections etc. The only one person in my family I remember being musically incline was my Grandfather who you could hear for miles whaling away sing his songs while plowing on a tractor or riding fence on horse back.

When I was 7 years old and shortly after my Grandfather past away my parents moved to Syracuse NY. My uncle, who had decided to stay and live in NY, after doing 4 years in Air Force talk my  dad into the change. It was here that I learned to either fight or be killed by local gangs, saw my first snow fall, and through my next door new friend, got introduced to and fell in love with my first instrument, the Clarinet. Although my friend had been playing for at least a year he talked me into entering a music contest at Syracuse University. Low and be whole, I placed 3rd in the competition and my friend, now mad as hell, didn’t even place. Then and there I felt the “need for Music”.

In 1957 we moved to the Dallas, Fort Worth, where during the time I started Jr. Hi School, where I decided to start playing the Alto (Eb) Saxophone. Hi School allowed me to move up to a Tenor Saxophone where I joined the school marching band and the Jazz band. In my senior year I joined a local Rock & Roll band and I was hooked.

While in the Army and stationed in Germany, I started a band where we played all the local Officers Clubs and local German Beer Joints. They loved all those R&R songs of the 60’s.

Getting married in 1968 and with one kid on the way put a stop to all my playing in clubs thanks to my Wife, Mom and Dad who all ganged up on me. Soooo my Sax went in the closet for looks like 34 years. During this time I finished college with a BS in Business (UNT), started and sold two successful businesses, taught myself to play the Guitar and Bass Guitar, not to mention 2 more bambinos (rug rats).

Then in 2003 I moved to Houston to start my new computer business and felt like I sure needed something to let my hair down and release stress. So with my "wife’s permission", I put my foot down and said I was going to start playing music and my Sax again. I found a local music magazine and found Borski’s Club, which had a Country Jam on Thursdays.

Now the show must go on again, finally and loving every minute of the time playing with some great musicians and now friends.

I will never put my Sax down again, that is , unless my wife tells me to.

I was born February 10, 1959 in Houston, Texas.  I graduated from Milby High School in Houston in 1977.  I started working on tug boats in 1979 and am still very much involved in the marine industry in a slightly different field.  I met and married my wonderful wife in 1982, and have 2 children and 3 grandchildren. 

I grew up in a home where dad used to wake his four kids up every Saturday morning with classic Hank Williams, Ray Price, Johnny Bush, Conway Twitty, Faron Young, Darrell McCall and Bob Wills playing loudly on the old hi-fi.  When I was around 14 or 15 years old, I desperately hated these Saturday morning country music jubilees.  As I grew a little older and started really listening (you couldn't help but HEAR it) to the music, it started to intrigue me more and more.  I kept hearing this beautiful sound in all this music, but I didn't know what it was.  I finally asked Pops to identify it for me and he told me it was a steel guitar.  I was about 17 at the time, and I fell in love with that sound.  Several weeks went by and Pops brought home an old Harlan Bros. steel from somewhere and gave it to me!  He even arranged for a friend of his who played to show me how to play a few things.  The first song I learned was "The Steel Guitar Rag", and I drove everybody at home crazy, playing this song probably a thousand times.

I played that old guitar for about six months when it became apparent that I needed a more modern instrument.  I saved up and bought myself a professional model steel just before I graduated from High School.  I played in numerous bands in Houston and East Texas from 1977 to 1982, when I decided to really concentrate on my career and my new family.  So I sold all my gear and got out of the music scene for 10 years.

In 1992, my career was exactly where I wanted it, and my kids weren't little babies any more so I bought another rig, and started playing again, but I really didn't start playing out much again until both kids were out of the house.

I met John and Jamie at a jam session one evening in 2006 or 2007,  and they asked if I'd like to play a gig with the Texas Roadrunners the following week.  I've played with a lot of folks, and played many different styles of music, but I've seldom enjoyed playing music with anyone as much as I enjoy playing with The Roadrunners.