Carol Hendrix Burrus sings, 
plays the flute and piano, and writes just about all of the band's songs.
She's been playing music publicly for the vast majority of her life. She played in the Houston
variety band Riverside through high school, college, and her early twenties.
She then took the role of lead vocalist for the Houston Society Jazz Orchestra
until the early nineties. Her career with these two bands enabled Carol to
participate in 35,267 wedding receptions.
When not writing music or singing with the band,
Carol spends her time as a music teacher at Neff Elementary in Houston.
And then of course she does wholesome things like caring for two kids, cooking, volunteering at
First Unitarian Universalist Church, and going on walks with the dog. The creative pursuit of
writing and performing music brings much joy and satisfaction to her life.
Charlie Burrus plays guitar, sings,
plays the piano and percussion and occasionally messes with other instruments.
Charlie played guitar for the bluesgrass band The Ulterior
Motives back in the early to mid '80s in New York City. Once the Ulterior Motives had a gig at the Speak Easy in Greenwich Vilage, and ex-Monkee
Peter Tork was going to be playing there
the next night. Sadly, that was about as close to fame as the Motives got.
Shortly afterwards Charlie played angry young lead guitar for the angry young band Shaggy and the Hackers in
New Hampshire. Those were angry but good times.
In the late 80s he moved back home to Houston, and enjoyed himself immensely playing guitar and keyboards for several years with the bluesy rock band Moe & the Lawn, a groundbreaking musical force that carefully eluded that big break.
Charlie enjoys romantic walks on the beach, romantic paddles on the swamp, romantic peddling on his bike and doing romantic mathematics on the futon in addition to playing romantic music on the melodica.
Andy Black plays double bass and fretless electric
bass, sings, plays percussion and has occasionally been seen playing the banjo.
When he's not onstage with Traveler he also plays the guitar, mandolin, dulcimer and messes about with
the piano, pennywhistles and other strange wind instruments.
Andy played guitar and sang for an art rock band, Canaan, in the late 70's in Houston. He moved on to Baylor University where he filled the guitar chair in the university's big band recently vacated by Jim Heath, now a recognized authority in nanotechnology. In his college days he also played in pit bands for musicals and in a small jazz combo called Time & A Half. The highlight of his jazz career came when, during the recording session of his song "Puente" (a beautifully melodic and harmonically complex ballad), the recording engineer opined that it sounded like something from a cheesy porn movie. Chastened by that experience he decided to go to law school. There he was asked to join the pit band for (yet another) musical. The band, which also played parties in Austin, Texas, already had two great guitarists so Andy took the plunge and became a bass player.
After law school he moved back to Houston where he ran into his old high school friend
Charlie. Not long afterwards Andy and Charlie got together with Jim Heath
(remember the nanotechnologist?) and singer Ellis Moss
to form Moe & the Lawn.
After six or seven years of good fun Andy felt it was
time for a change. Finding more grace in Traveler's music than in the
bar band scene Andy ripped the frets out of his bass and pursued that
eclectic acoustic folk jazz sound. Moving deeper into the folk jazz thing, he took up the double
bass, and while he hates hauling the beast around he loves the sound it
makes. Andy enjoys working on his house, playing with his kids and will
continue to practice law until he hits the lottery.
Carol, Charlie and Andy have been playing together for quite a few years, and have frequently been joined by friends on stage and on disc, including Herman Kluge, Luigi Bai, Howard Hendrix, Max Dyer, Barbara Shreffler, James Metcalfe, and "Texas Jon" David Jones.