VOLUME 17 ISSUE 12
Dedicated to Peter Cedarstacker
Saturday, December 10th 9pm
Bob Schneider
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Saturday, Dec. 17th
Christmas Ball
9pm
Gary
P.
Nunn
Susan Gibson
Solo Show
Saturday, December 31st 9pm
New Year’s
Eve Dance
RANDY BROWN
Limited # of Tickets available
SATURDAYS • 1pm
Bill Lewis Piano Sessions
w/ Special Guests
Merry Christmas
from Luckenbach Texas
Closed - December 25th
Check website or call for ticket info & details
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December 2011
Friday Nite Dances
2nd - Josh Peek Band
8pm
9th - Jimmy Lee Jones Band
16th - Doug Davis & the Note Ropers
23rd - Almost Patsy Cline Band
30th - Kick-A-Boot Band
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Inside
“THE MOON”
Cedar Creek Clippings ................................Page 3
Everybody’s Somebody ............................Page-4-5
Luckenbach Store & More ..........................Page 6
You Can’t Forget Memories ........................Page 7
Luckenbach Upcoming Events ....................Page 8
John Raven – Short Film Producer
Congratulations to our very own "You can’t
forget Memories" writer John Raven. John is making the news again but not as "Daredevil Bad
McFad (he tried to fly with homemade rockets
strapped to himself or being shot out of homemade
cannons back in the ‘70s & ‘80s) nor as chili/barbecue Cook-off judge but as film producer. John
entered Texas Monthly’s "Where I’m From" short
film contest and his production, "Lyndon’s Hills"
was named first runner up. His film was part of the
Austin Film Festival screening at the Bullock Texas
State History Museum. John has been a friend and
Luckenbach Regular for many years. .
Watch John’s film on the Texas Monthly website (www.texasmonthly.com)
& read Dave Thomas’ article about him on www.austin360.com
W.C. Clark & Ray Benson • Sunday, Nov. 13th
The LUCKENBACH MOON is published monthly by Luckenbach Texas, Inc.
Opinions expressed in The LUCKENBACH MOON do not necessarily reflect
the opinions of the owners, directors, or staff of Luckenbach Texas, Inc.
We would like to acknowledge and thank the following “Somebodies” who
made this month’s MOON possible:
Peter Cedarstacker aka Hondo Crouch, Becky Crouch Barrales, John Raven, C.
P. Vaughn and Robbyn Dodd.
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lemon and nutmeg. The nutmeg was just to confuse
the taste buds of even the most dedicated gourmet.
The Santiago Smith holiday party carried out the
CHEESE DIP motif beautifully. There were chips
sewn on the curtains and sowed on the rug. The
rugs were of the same color and texture of the
CHEESE DIP.
Well, this is the ninth day of our new year and we
put all our CHEESE DIPS together and threw IT in
the creek. The alligator wouldn’t even eat it. No
guts.
Note: From 1961-1973, Hondo (nom
de plume, or alias, or AKA Peter
Cedarstacker) wrote a social satire column for the Comfort News. The fictional town of Cedar Creek and all of its
characters eventually became the real
town of Luckenbach and all of its characters (and Luckenbach has some real
characters!) The MOON reserves a special corner for Peter Cedarstacker,
Writer, as a corner of wit and human
insight for us today.
-Becky Crouch Barrales
Peter Cedarstacker
Writer
The Wurstbottom family of Big Flat (sometimes
we call ‘em the Big Flat Wurstbottoms) motored to
Cedar Creek for Christmas. It seems like everyone
was exchangin’ presents that didn’t fit at the store,
Monday of this week. I took my sox and tie back.
They fit but the colors clashed, Mama said. Think
they were the same ones I took back last year.
I think our kinfolks must have longer holidays
that most folks. They’r still here. Ho hum. Mrs.
Spite had a real big party with people to match and
brought her left-overs over. So did everybody else
and I’m up to here (I’m showin’ you with my finger on my tonsil) with CHEESE DIP.
Starting with Dec. 15, CHEESE DIPS seem to
become a creeping disease, and by Jan. 1 Operation
CHEESE DIP has worked up into a disturbance of
the social calendar as well of the digestive track.
People find themselves racing, stumblin’ from one
party to another just to dip their chip into someone’s exotic ten second CHEESE DIP, and say
‘ummmm, what’s in it?
Everyone in Cedar Creek has a secret recipe.
Some don’t stay secret long. Blow flies find ‘em
rite away. Like the dip Mrs. Wurstbottom gave us
with chunks of finical fish, (well exposed) lumps
of limburger, and slick spinach. But we have eight
pounds of strong, extra strong CHEESE DIP with
black specks (dormant) in it. Some of our dips are
so pickley they simply lock my salivary glands
wide open. What a trick! The green and red
striped CHEESE DIP looks heavenly but it’s bitter.
Like quinine and alum. You’re suppose to eat more
chips with that type I guess or frantically drink
more. One dip that was too tart had strong
anchovies, sour cream (the kind we usta throw out),
Harvest Classic
October 21 & 22
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Another genius idea of Abbey’s was the breaking of
the Guinness Book of World Records for the most
amount of guitar players playing the same song nonstop for 10 minutes. It was quite an awesome sight
to see 1,869 people playing "Let’s Go to
Luckenbach, Texas". The idea was born from
Abbey’s observation of the Picker’s Circle. Kerrville
Folk Festival producer Dalis Allen combined efforts
with Abbey to create a fund raiser for guitar lessons
as good therapy for warriors with head trauma
injuries.
EVERYBODY’S
SOMEBODY
by
Becky Crouch
Barrales
Abbey Road’s Road to Luckenbach
"Thank God you’re on this earth!" cried famous
blues musician W.C. Clark with tears in his eyes. "Or
I never woulda seen or played in Luckenbach!" He
was talking to Abbey, our Events Manager, who
invented the Blues Festival at Luckenbach. Abbey,
who doesn’t have a last name but is called "Abbey
Road", has created some of Luckenbach’s most successful and amazing events in the last five years,
simply due to her acute observations and love of
Luckenbach. "One day the wind blew, the stars
realigned and I found myself getting lost in
Luckenbach," Abbey said.
"I brought blues to Luckenbach. They didn’t know
much about that kind of music here. I’m from
Navasota, Blues Capital of Texas. I grew up listening to the Godfather of Blues, Mance Lipscomb,
folk and blues hero of the South. Blues is the base of
most all music, including Country Western. The
Blues Festival has brought the likes of world legend
Pine Top Perkins, Ruthie Foster and Marcia Ball.
It’ll be the last Saturday of January."
Revolutionary for Luckenbach is Abbey’s building
up of the social media world. For a place that’s hard
to find (due to stolen signs), likes to be at the end of
the road, she has brought Luckenbach up to modern
cyber tech status with her wide viewers on Face
Book and Twitter. In spite of Luckenbach’s back
woods and backwards philosophy of "this is where
the world stops", people want to communicate about
it. "I keep Hondo alive," she says, "quoting from my
bible, the Hondo book, reminding the world about
him."
"I love my job. I wake up every day wondering how
I can get the world – or someone sitting in Michigan
– to hear about, come and see Luckenbach, with
great entertainment. I’m a people watcher. Their
reactions are fun to watch. They meet up with
friends or total strangers. Luckenbach really is the
center of the universe, as Hondo said."
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One day an 18-year-old girl from Katy came into the
store with her boyfriend. "My mom and dad said I
just had to come to Luckenbach," she said. "They
used to come here years ago. But I just don’t get it!"
As she walked further into the store a chicken had
just laid an egg on a pile of CDs, and let out a loud
squawk and cackle. Abbey picked up the still hot egg
and put it into the girl’s hands. She shrieked, "Oh my
God!" and threw it up in the air. It landed on the floor,
didn’t even break.
Abbey made her welcome even warmer. She comp’d
her a Coke and a t-shirt. With her new t-shirt on, grinning from ear to ear, the girl finally admitted, "I get
it. This is Luckenbach!"
P.S. Happy 45th Birthday to Abbey December 27th.
Happy Birthday to Gary P. Nunn and Hondo,
December 4th. Be sure to come to the 5th Annual
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collapse as soon as you put a tablespoon of beans in
them.
I reserved room for a little dessert. There was some
kind of homemade flat cake that had some kind of
jelly on it and it was as good as it gets. I should have
got the recipe.
Everyone was taking pictures with their Star Trek
December 2011
communicators.
I of course, had my personal phoCopyright John Raven
tographer from the Austin American Statesman on
The middle of October, Luckenbach hosted its hand. Rudy Gonzalez is a whiz-bang photographer
annual "Friends and Customer appreciation" party. and is now an established Luckenbach, Texas fan. It
Luckenbach has been doing this for several years would not take much to turn him into a Luckenbach
now. It is their way of showing that they do appreci- Regular.
This coming January will mark my 38th year of
ate their friends and loyal customers.
being
a Luckenbach Regular. The time frame does
The invitation listed hours of party as 5PM to
10PM. By 4:30 there was a good crowd already on not seem necessary. Luckenbach has been forever to
hand. Of course I go early as I don’t want to miss me.
I have never had a bad time at Luckenbach. The
anything. The weather was perfect. After our long,
hot summer the cool breeze felt wonderful. It even majority of my friends I met at Luckenbach. I intend
perked up the resident chickens. Two of the roosters to continue to meet friends there as long as I can.
I want to thank Luckenbach Texas Inc and all hands
engaged in a whiz-bang fight right in the middle of
the street. They had feathers flying for a little while. for caring for and preserving a bit of sacred ground.
I sat a while at the philosopher’s table under the You done good.
trees and visited with Kit Patterson and his papa
Dow. I had not seen Dow in so long I didn’t recognize him. He was one of the original group of Austin
musicians who got music started in Austin.
Visiting was good all evening. Everyone was a card
carrying Luckenbachian. We all had "remember
when"s. Clayton Knopp even showed up. Clayton
was Luckenbach resident before the Indians got
there.
For a unexpected treat, Allegaini Jani showed up
with a box of free kittens. I saw several leaving under
new ownership. Where else but Luckenbach can you
get a party with barbecue and a kitten for free.
The chow line queued up in the dance hall. In single file it would have reached nearly to Grapetown.
If you left hungry it was your own fault.
Virgil the Deputy did the barbecue. It was way
ahead of ordinary. It was as tender and tasty as you
could get. There were the side dishes too. When I
have an option in a barbecue line I only take meat,
bread and potato salad. Coleslaw and beans just take
up space that I can use for more meat and potato
salad.
One of the great features of the meal were the plastic dishes. They were very sturdy and didn’t soak up
the juice. I detest the flimsy, paper plates that will
You can’t
forget
Memories
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DECEMBER CALENDAR
1st
ShAnnie-Picker Circle
5pm
Fri
2nd
T & C Miller-Picker Circle
Josh Peek Band - Dance
4pm
8pm
Sat
3rd
Bill Lewis Piano Sessions
The Mystiqueros
1pm
9pm
Sun
4th
The Moonlighters
1pm
Mon
5th
Greg & Lisa-Picker Circle
5pm
Tue
6th
Ben Beckendorf-Picker Circle
5pm
Wed
7th
Richard Vidmer-Picker Circle
5pm
Thu
8th
ShAnnie-Picker Circle
5pm
Fri
9th
T & C Miller-Picker Circle
Jimmy Lee Jones - Dance
4pm
8pm
Sat
10th Bill Lewis Piano Sessions
Bob Schneider / Susan Gibson - Solo Show
1pm
9pm
Sun
11th Bob Livingston & Butch Hancock
1pm
Mon
12th Closing at 5pm
Tue
13th Ben Beckendorf-Picker Circle
5pm
Wed
14th Dale Mayfield-Picker Circle
5pm
Thu
15th ShAnnie-Picker Circle
5pm
Fri
16th T & C Miller-Picker Circle
Doug Davis & the Note Ropers - Dance
4pm
8pm
Sat
17th Bill Lewis Piano Sessions
Luckenbach Christmas Ball-Gary P. Nunn
1pm
9pm
Sun
18th Thomas Michael Riley
1pm
Mon
19th Greg & Lisa-Picker Circle
5pm
Tue
20th Ben Beckendorf-Picker Circle
5pm
Wed
21st Richard Vidmer-Picker Circle
5pm
Thu
22nd ShAnnie-Picker Circle
5pm
Fri
23rd T & C Miller-Picker Circle
The Almost Patsy Cline Band - Dance
4pm
8pm
Sat
24th Bill Lewis Piano Sessions - Closing @ 5pm
1pm
Sun
25th MERRY CHRISTMAS - CLOSED
Mon
26th Greg & Lisa-Picker Circle
5pm
Tue
27th Ben Beckendorf-Picker Circle
5pm
Wed
28th Richard Vidmer-Picker Circle
5pm
Thu
29th ShAnnie-Picker Circle
5pm
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Fri
30th T & C Miller-Picker Circle
Kick-A-Boot Band - Dance
4pm
8pm
Kerrville
31st Bill Lewis Piano Sessions
New Year's Eve Dance - Randy Brown
1pm
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