Ruud Hermans - Pick up the pieces (CD Blue Horizon)[1994]

Ruud Hermans (Tilburg, December 24, 1950) is a Tilburg country-and-western singer who won the 2019 edition of The Voice Senior.
In 1973 he was hired by Ton and Ine Masseurs as lead singer of the Tumbleweeds. He alternated the vocal parts with Ine Masseurs and also played extra percussion on a twelve-string guitar that the rhythm guitarist on duty Berry Masseurs could not play on his six-string. Despite the success, Hermans never saw himself as part of the band
The Tumbleweeds brought him to the United States (1973/1974). Despite the performances and performances of songs written by himself, Ruud Hermans became dissatisfied with the repertoire, he found it no longer appropriate in time. In 1975 the band had a number 1 listing in the Dutch charts with Merle Haggard's "Somewhere between".
Hermans' songs were received by the press as coal English, but the band members tried to make Hermans as comfortable as possible.
In 1977 Hermans made it clear to Ad Masseurs that he was going to leave the Tumbleweeds.
He founded the Ruud Hermans Band, but it received insufficient commercial attention. In order to achieve success in the United States, he renamed the band Tulsa, after the city of Tulsa. There was also no breakthrough with this band; she was called in as support act for performances by other artists, including the aforementioned Merle Haggard and also Johnny Cash.