THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS Gib Guilbeau, John Beland, Sneaky Pete Kleinow Larry Gadler, Gary Kubal & Brian Cadd

In Spring 1993 they contacted former members to discuss reuniting for a new recording project and after much persuasion Gib, Sneaky Pete & Chris Ethridge joined John and Brian in Tennessee and without a full time drummer Ronnie Tutt, one time Elvis Presley band member, "guests" at the sessions.
The sessions, at The Salad Bowl in Franklin, Tennessee during the very hot Summer of 1993 proceed smoothly with John & Brian doing the production chores but most of all avoiding the conflicts that had plagued the band in the past.
The resultant album "Eye Of A Hurricane" was initially released later in the year in the UK by the Sundown label although it did gain subsequent release in the US on One Way Records.
It was only to be expected that the bulk of the material would come from the Beland & Cadd partnership both from a songwriting and vocal standpoint although Gib is well served with five songwriting credits including a couple with John & Brian. It is also important to note that Chris Ethridge was allowed to sing one of his own songs albeit the weak, "Smile" demonstrating the efforts made to keep everyone happy.
Overall a strong well produced album justifying the decision to reunite but both Sneaky Pete & Chris Ethridge returned to their own projects after the recording was completed leaving most of the promotion work to John & Brian although Gib did join them for a short tour in Europe, Switzerland & Italy, with Larry Gadler filling the bass position again.

THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS - Eye Of A Hurricane

- THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS: Eye Of A Hurricane (SUNDOWN CDSD 075 (UK) / ONE WAY OW 30330 (US) 1993) Produced by John Beland and Brian Cadd Band: John Beland, Gib Guilbeau, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Brian Cadd, Chris Ethridge Guest: Ronnie Tutt Tracks: Wheels Of Love / Like A Thief In The Night / Bayou Blues / Angry Words / Rosetta Knows / Heart Highway / I Sent Your Saddle Home Jukebox Saturday Night / Arizona Moon / Wild Wild West / Eye Of The Hurricane / Sunset Boulevard / Smile

Apart from this short tour promotion of the album was mainly concentrated on radio and TV including an appearance on Music City Tonight in May 1994 where they performed the lead track from the record "Wheel Of Love" and the much older "Dark End Of The Street".

THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS Sneaky Pete, Phil Lee & Gib Guilbeau

Very little was heard about the band for the next year except in 1995 when Sneaky Pete, Gib Guilbeau, Bobby Cochran, Charlie Harwood along with singer songwriter Phil Lee recorded four publishing demos at Criterion Studios The songs, all written and sung by Phil, were circulated on a cassette by Criterion Music in an unsuccessful attempt to stimulate new interest in the band. The songs :

Phil Lee later signed a solo deal with the Shanachie label and re - recorded the first two songs for his first solo album released in 1999.

Also during 1995 John Beland and Brian Cadd along with ex - Burrito, Al Perkins, and other Nashville based musicians recorded an album "The Nashville Country Classical Orchestra" for the German Fresh label, playing music written by Mozart, Beethoven etc...
This album was produced by a German duo, Carry & Ron, and later the same year the Beland / Cadd produced a Country album on the duo titled "Legend In The Making" also contributing a number of songs to the album , again for the Fresh label.

In February 1996 The Flying Burrito Brothers were booked for a tour in Spain.
The dates were: February 3th Pamplona, 7th Barcelona, 8 th Madrid, 9th San Sebastián & 10th Getxo.
The line-up was: Gib Guilbeau, John Beland, Brian Cadd, Wayne Bridge on steel, Gary Kubal on drums & Ronnie Guilbeau on bass.
They also did a live performance for a Spanish TV channel!
Chris Ethridge was supposed to go on this tour but the day before leaving he was not able to go on this tour.

After this tour John and Brian went their separate ways with Brian Cadd returning to his native Australia and as John decided to get the Burrito's up and flying again. Both Sneaky Pete & Gib still out in California had suffered heart problems which limited their involvement to the new recordings at studios in Nashville & Henderson, Tennessee.
John, in addition to bringing back Larry Patton along with Gary Kubal on drums, got the likes of Waylon Jennings, Buck Owens, Charlie Louvin & Joel Sonnier to make guest appearances. To cover for Sneaky's limited availability , ex Burrito Al Perkins and Sonny Landreth shared the steel and slide guitar duties with Sneaky.

The resultant album "California Jukebox" was picked up by the American Harvest label and released in 1997, by which time John had relocated back to Yountville, California.
Another well produced album with a generous fifteen tracks and a varied mixture of material.
Gib, who was recovering from a heart bypass operation, had only a couple of vocal outings revisiting his "Sweet Susanna" and an adequate cover of Neil Young's cajun flavoured "Dance, Dance, Dance".
In addition to the title track John has another three songs, "San Fernando Road", "World Without Love" and a song left over from his days writing with Brain Cadd "Take A Walk On the Edge". Waylon shares lead vocals on Rodney Crowell's "Ain't Living Long Like This" with a similar arrangement to Waylon's own version many years before. Charlie Louvin sings on "My Baby's Gone" and Buck Owens adds acoustic guitar to "Buckaroo". The recent upsurge of "alternative country" provided the source for a couple of songs - The Jayhawks "Two Hearts" & Jay Farrar's "Windfall".

THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS - California Jukebox

- THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS: California Jukebox (ETHER/AMERICAN HARVEST 895057708 (US) 1997 REISSUE: ICEHOUSE IHR 9444 (US) 2001) Produced by John Beland Band: John Beland, Gib Guilbeau, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Larry Patton & Gary Kubal Guests: Dennis Belfield, Al Perkins, Tony Harrell, Jo-El Sonnier, Sonny Landreth, Billy Thomas Buck Owens, Waylon Jennings & Charlie Louvin. Tracks: San Fernando Road / Sweet Susanna / Back To Bayou Teche / Cailfornia Jukebox / Buckaroo / Tomorrow We'll Do It Again World Without You / Dance, Dance, Dance Willin' / Two Hearts / Ain't Living Long Like This / Take A Walk On The Edge My Baby's Gone / CJB Revisited

Sneaky Pete & Gib Guilbeau leave the band in late 1997 both for medical reasons and unhappy with the direction the band is going.

THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS Larry Patton, John Beland Gary Kubal & Wayne Bridges

Grateful Dead / Arista records signed the band to a new record deal and during the Spring of 1999 recording commenced at John's studio in Yountville, Ca. Following the trend of California Jukebox several special guests , Merle Haggard, Ricky Skaggs, The Oak Ridge Boys, Delbert McClinton & Alison Krauss contributed their vocal and instrumental talents to the project.

The album "Sons Of the Golden West" released in the summer of 1999 is without doubt the strongest one produced by the band for many years with John's softer vocals matched against Larry Patton's "honky tonk" approach. The decision again to use outside material as well as from within the band no doubt had a beneficial effect on the fourteen song album.
John had six songs including the title track and the instrumental "Pull This" also wrote, "Area 51", "Pioneer Zephyr Train", "Up On Sycamore" & "Down At The Palomino" with the lyrics of the latter two reminiscing about his early days on the California music scene. John also revisited the days he spent with Rick Nelson by including the Baker Knight song "Never Anyone Else But You" which charted for Rick in the late 50's.

Larry Patton added a couple of songs "Genuine Healer" and a somewhat jokey tribute "Ode To Gram". Merle Haggard added his vocals to his own "Mama's Hungry Eyes", and on the version of Hank Williams "Honky Tonk Blues", Delbert McClinton was featured on harmonica and vocals, Wayne Bridge shows he was a more than capable replacement for Sneaky Pete.

THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS - Sons Of The Golden West

- THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS: Sons Of The Golden West (GRATEFUL DEAD GDCD 4065 (US) 1999) Produced by John Beland Band: John Beland, Larry Patton, Gary Kubal & Wayne Bridges Guests: Earl P. Ball, Merle Haggard, Alison Krauss, Ricky Skaggs, Sam Bush, The Oak Ridge Boys Delbert McClinton, Jamie Whiting, Charlie Cushman, Dave Roe, Roddy & Milla Love John Fittiipoldi & Billy Thomas. Tracks: Sons Of The Golden West / Honky Tonkin' / Area 51 / Mama's Hungry Eyes / Pioneer Zephyr Train / When I Was A Cowboy Down At The Palomino / Genuine Healer / Pull This / Anyone Else But You / Honky Tonk Blues / Up On Sycamore Locked Away / Ode To Gram

The album was very well received and is probably the most successful for many years and was prominent in the "Americana" charts for many weeks.

No sooner had the new millennium come then the band set off in January for a fairly lengthy tour of Australia also including shows in Hawaii. The shows proved very popular and the album was released on the Stallion label (owned by John's old cohort Brian Cadd) to tie in with the visit under a new title "Honky Tonkin" with some minor track changes.

Returning to the US after the tour, John had planned for the next release to be a "Best Of" compilation but adding a number of new recordings, again with guests, to complete the album.
However this plan was dropped later in the year when John unexpectedly announced the end of the band, which was initially contested by Sneaky Pete & Gib Guilbeau but as John had the sole legal rights to the name there was nothing more they could do. John felt the band had gone as far as it could and has since returned to a solo career performing in L.A.and recording a solo release "Bare Bones".

In 2002 John released a compilation album "Burrito Works" containing previously released material from the band's 1990 albums and concentrated largely on John's contributions to the band.

Various compilation albums and re-releases from that period: