I grabbed this clip because of the hat talk – Jimmie gave Susan one that she fell in love with. Seems like I say this pretty often but… this was a particularly good night at The Faust. Hope you were listening on cyber radio.
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Woody lived on Callahan Road in the first left turn from Bandera Road. His love of music was centered around the big white Fender Stratocaster he got for Christmas in the early 1950′s. He signed up for lessons from Spud Goodall and soon became a Chet Atkins sound a like. His father opened up a little coffee shop down on Bandera Road called “The Coffee Pot” where most of the local musicians would hang out and teach each other. I have reel to reel tapes with songs he wrote and some were what I think are very good. He died at 49 and I’m pushing 73 and I always thought I would hear them again. I would like to hear Spud Goodall again but, you know, he is just not out there either. . . . I guess I’ll just have to do with Chet Atkins himself.
This was a classic performance live and on the radio at Thursday Night Music Club last week. Tune in this week, never know what you might hear.
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Yes, there is a drug reference in there but you have to know Claude’s story – he councils people now about how negative drugs are. Like in this story…. make you forget the words to your song at the worst possible moment. What a storyteller Claude is. And the song “Eddie” at the end is just a gem.
For those of you wanting to attend NESA’s production of Grease, tickets go on sale Friday, February 5th! Tickets are expected to sell out so buy them as soon as possible. They are $8 in advance, $10 at the door.
I will be playing Sandy on Friday night shows and Sunday matinees both weekends. The dates for my shows are February 19th, 21st, 26th, and 28th.
Thanks! I hope you can make it!! The direct web link is:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producerevent/97514?prod_id=3044
Andreas
David Helm is the host of the Roots Americana Radio Show and he came out to The Faust and set up the equipment to do the feed to their transmitter in San Antonio and to their Internet stream and, by God, he put the whole evening of TNMC into a radio format. Then he got such good response from his listeners that he wants to do it every week. And I think that’s what we’re gonna do. The COOL thing is to get on the chat room and you can interact with everybody at the show in real time. The chat becomes a big part of the whole thing – David will type into the chat that he’s looking for questions to ask the performers and you can send one to him and he’ll ask it. Or just say hello to everybody. You can make a request, whatever… it’s wild.
See if you can log onto the stream here. Then Thursday night between 7 and 11 Central time, if you want, you can logon and let it play in the background while you’re surfing the Internet or doing the dishes and be in New Braunfels with us for while.
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This was taken in Cleveland around WWII. That’s Uncle Howard holding Raymond Jr. (my Uncle Raymond) and Raymond Sr. (my Granddad who Charlie and Raymond and Dan Smith call Uncle Raymond) with John Sr. in front of him. Click here to see it larger.
We are taught at an early age not to stare. Society sets unenunciated rules on how many nano-seconds can elapse before a glance becomes a look and a look becomes a stare and a stare becomes an ogle and an ogle becomes a leer. Stray over those time limits and one risks consequences that range from glares to gunplay.
In our increasingly crowded populace of me-ism and paranoia, danger lies in misinterpreted non-ogles. News item: “West Side Bar Shootingâ€â€”victim was watching powder room door for wife to emerge. Gunman at bar between victim and powder room became enraged when he thought victim was staring at buxom girlfriend.â€
It pays to be careful where you are not ogling.
Legitimate observation may be taken negatively. One day at noon I drove into a parking lot of a busy hamburger joint on Congress Ave. in Austin. There were no parking spaces open. Then two men and three women came out of the restaurant and started to
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