Born in 1947, into a musical family in Beeville, Texas, just south of San Antonio, this Country-Blues-Rocker has been playing music almost all his life. After one of his aunts taught him to play guitar when he was seven, he never looked back! Larry sang and played guitar at his sixth grade graduation and had his own bands through junior high and high school. He started high school at Sam Houston High the same year famed rocker Doug Sahm (Sir Douglas Quintet/Texas Tornados) graduated. They played a lot of gigs together over the years and remained good friends until Doug passed away in New Mexico in 1999. After high school Larry played in several local bands around south Texas until being drafted in to the Army in 1967.

After basic training Larry wound up in Germany where he played local clubs in a band with some of his army buddies. Released from the Army in 1969, he returned to San Antonio and got his first bass guitar gig with a local band "Terry Yarborough and the Country Squires". In 1970 he was offered the bass playing job with Johnny Bush and the Bandoleros. Johnny was the former drummer for Ray Price and the Cherokee Cowboys, and had just been named Most Promising Male Vocalist of the year by the Academy of Country Music. Larry was soon fronting the band, and he was on the bus when John wrote "Whiskey River" (destined to become a major hit for Willie Nelson).

Larry recalls that they played the song that night for the first time at The Esquire Ballroom in Houston. In 1972 Larry replaced Bee Speers on bass with the Willie Nelson Band when Bee left to play with Waylon Jennings. That band was Willie, Larry on bass, Paul English on drums and the legendary Jimmy Day on steel guitar. Larry eventually gave the gig to a friend who held the job until Bee decided he wanted to come back, and Bee has been Willie's bass player ever since. Also in 1972, Larry did some recording of his own as an artist at RCA in Nashville for a label called Stop Records owned by Pete Drake and Tommy Hill. Those singles received some airplay around the country.  Read on..