VOLUME 16 ISSUE 3
Dedicated to Peter Cedarstacker
March 2010
Saturday, March 6th • Noon Spring Break
Texas Independence
Celebration
Texas Flag Retirement Ceremony
w/ Former Texas Rangers Foundation
K.R. Wood • The McKay Brothers • Doug Moreland
The Original Texas Star Trailride - 4pm
DANCE - Dusty Britches & the Rhythm Ranch Hands - 8pm
Saturday, March 27th
The Annual Return of the
Mud Dauber Festival & Ball
Kim Carson - 1pm • John Evans - 3pm
DANCE - Doug Davis & the Note Ropers - 8pm
weekend dances
March 5th - Eleven Hundred Springs
March 19th - Bill Rice
March 20th - Mark Stuart
March 26th - Bodie Powell
8pm
Weekend
FRIDAY, MARCH 12TH
1pm - Jimmy Lee Jones
4pm - Bill Lewis
8pm - Stephanie Urbina Jones •
The Tejas Brothers
SATURDAY, MARCH 13TH
1pm - Doug Moreland/Dub Miller
Acoustic
8pm - Micky & the Motorcars
Romi Mayes • Mark Monaco Band
SUNDAY, MARCH 14TH
1pm - Susan Gibson • Jamie Wilson
Terri Hendrix
5pm - Cowboy Doug Davis
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Inside
“THE MOON”
Cedar Creek Clippings ................................Page 3
Everybody’s Somebody ............................Page 4-5
Luckenbach Store & More ..........................Page 6
Check website or call for ticket info & details
You Can’t Forget Memories ........................Page 7
www.luckenbachtexas.com
Luckenbach Upcoming Events ....................Page 8
The Rebels and Outlaws are Coming!!!
Luckenbach is known for many things. One of the most
important is our music history. We were smack dab in the middle of the Cosmic Cowboy culture in the early 70’s. Fast forward
4 decades later and we are still partial to the outlaws of music.
Outlaws or rebels, refers to the fact that they do it their way.
They prefer the road less traveled and they fight to stay true to
their style. Radio play or not, these musicians cultivate an
underground society of true believers and followers.
lead singer for the Gougers, going solo last year, teaming up with
the likes of Jason Eady on a semi regular basis and eventually
finding her way as the matriarch of the incredibly talented all
female super group, The Trishas.
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3RD SUNDAY – Thomas Michael Riley and Mike Blakely, Cowboy
Church 1-5pm. If you are reading this and you don’t know who
these two are…ask somebody! This duo and their friends have
become the Hill Country’s secret treasure.
2010 finds us with more music and events than ever. Every
month this year you will find at least one festival with an outstanding Outlaw or Rebel at the helm. Beginning in March, it is
only fitting that we kick things off with a full day of celebration
for Texas Independence. March 6th, Luckenbach partners
with the Former Texas Rangers Foundation, Lonestar Beer,
Gibson Guitars, The McKay Brothers, KR Wood and Doug
Moreland. We will hold a Flag Retirement ceremony at noon
with members of The Former Texas Rangers Foundation. An
afternoon of pure Texas Music follows. This is a great family day
in Luckenbach. Doug Moreland will be on site carving out a life
size Gibson Guitar with his chainsaw. The Lonestar Flag will
flank the body. Lonestar Beer and their Armadillo will complete
the "yard art" piece that will be permanently placed on property close to the fire pit. The Texas Star Trail ride will ride in around
5pm with over 200 Horses/riders and wagons. Dusty Britches
will once again host the evening dance.
4TH SUNDAY – Stephanie Urbina Jones 1-5pm. Stephanie brings
a Texicana element to Luckenbach this year. Armed with a new
CD and a statewide radio tour in the works, be sure and watch
this Mama fly. We are proud to embrace the heritage and culture
of Stephanie and the genre that is so uniquely ours, Texicana.
3RD SATURDAY – Outlaw Afternoons in Luckenbach! Join hosts
Brigitte London and W.C. Jameson as they bring outlaws from
across the country to the stages of Luckenbach. This is home,
this is who we are and you will not want to miss one single
month of this series.
Extra Special events coming up this year include -
APRIL 3RD – Ray Wylie Hubbard’s 2nd Grit n Groove… if you
were present last year, you know what’s in store. The line up
this year will NOT disappoint!
APRIL 17TH – Texas Hat Festival, a full day of dancing in the
streets with the likes of Gary P, Max Stalling, Deryl Dodd, Tommy
Alverson, Doug Moreland, Walt Wilkins, Kevin Deal, Micky and
the Motorcars. Don’t forget your Hat! The Best in Texas Hat
makers/demonstrations. Ugly Hat contest and the Best Old Hat
contest. A real live Texas Hat Dance! This is a TRUE TEXAS festival..nowhere but Luckenbach Texas.
March is also Spring Break! Rev it up this year with Micky and
the Motorcars, Romi Mayes, Mark Monaco, Stephanie Urbina
Jones, The Tejas Brothers, Susan Gibson, Terri Hendrix and
Jamie Wilson. For the complete schedule and ticketing information, check our website.
There are a few Rebels out there that we just can’t get enough
of. Each month (March thru October) we will feature the following performers -
JULY 16-19 – Thomas Michael Riley is cooking up a shin dig!
Stay Tuned.
2ND SUNDAY – 1-5pm, Susan Gibson and Jamie Wilson w/ special
guests. Susan Gibson is well known for her songs and instrumental performances. She is highly sought after as an addition
on everyone’s CD. Jamie Wilson is one of the hardest working
women in the business these days. Starting her career as the
LABOR DAY – Hayes Carll joins us for 3 days of music, camping
and fun. Hayes has held Stingaree on Bolivar beach for the last
6 years. Due to the destruction by Hurricane Ike, it’s just not feasible to do it there anymore. Mark your calendars now and stay
tuned for details.
Luckenbach is famous for the 1st Women’s Chili Cook off. We
are bringing back the chili this year in November…and guys are
included this time!
From all of the Somebody’s in Luckenbach… Happy Spring!
Come see us, have a beer, sit and chat awhile, sing a song or
two. We will be lookin’ for you. In the mean time, check out our
website www.luckenbachtexas.com. Be our friend on
Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and YouTube.
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.
Abbey Road
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Jimmy Lee Jones
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
By Walt Perryman
Jimmy Lee grew up in Crane, a small west Texas town.
He learned how to play a right handed guitar, upside down.
His first job was throwing a chain on a drilling rig.
After work, he would grab his guitar and go to a gig.
He joined the Marines and did his patriotic chore,
Came back to West Texas and worked some more.
Me and Mama spent Wednesday of this week in
Luckenbach standin’ by the flagpole wavin’ at airplanes. You know, not many folks do that anymore…
If one of them airplanes waves back it makes you
feel strong and tall, like when me and Mama go riding down the highway and run over that little rubber
hose that counts cars and goes ‘blump-blump’. Boy, it
makes us sit tall and look around to see if anybody is
watching, because we very seldom ever get counted
in Luckenbach.
We’ve discovered that Luckenbach, on the globe,
is right in the middle of the world and we figure that
if God hadn’t intended for us to be the center of the
world he wouldn’t have put us here.
Luckenbach is a state of mind.
Luckenbach is a free state. The present principality of Luckenbach was nearly part of the United
States but when the Washington politicians and
statesman came down to look over the proposed
annexation they threw a whale of a stag party with
girls. In the commotion they all signed what they
thought was a deer huntin’ lease and freed us. We’ve
never been captured since. Ain’t we lucky?
He worked his way through college and earned a degree.
But, a Petroleum Engineer was not what he wanted to be.
He loaded up his clothes and his old guitar.
He headed to the hill country in his old car.
He pulled into Luckenbach, so the story goes.
Next thing, he was opening up for Willie’s big shows.
He traveled with Willie all over this land.
Playing a right-handed guitar with his left hand.
He tried marriage a few times for a little while,
But, marriage did not fit in with his roaming life style.
Today, Jimmy Lee Jones is a well known name,
And, if he could do it over, he would do it the same.
Everybody is Somebody in Luckenbach.
Peter Cedarstacker
Monday - Friday 1pm
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EVERYBODY’S
SOMEBODY
by
Becky Crouch
Barrales
Texas Trivia
When Hondo Crouch died in 1976 Texas Monthly called him "the Most Professional Texan." His death
made Time Magazine’s Milestones. Unbeknownst to him in his lifetime, he was considered a Texas Folk Hero,
a charismatic story teller of tall tales. Here’s one of my favorite tall tales of his: "We can’t grow no watermelons here in Big Flat. Soil’s too rich. Those vines grow so fast they just wear the watermelons out draggin’ ‘em
around!" Hondo’s listed in the Texas Trivia Game under "Legends." This being Texas Independence month,
see if you know some more nickel knowledge of our great one-of-a-kind interesting state.
CITIES & TOWNS
QUESTIONS
1. The only Indian Reservation within the limits of a
major U.S. city is what?
2. Was Boerne named for trombone player?
3. What’s the cradle of Texas?
4. Where is the World Chili Cook-off held?
5. What is the oldest road in Texas?
6. What is the "Bluebonnet Capital of Texas?
7. How did Hondo, Texas get its name?
What does Hondo mean?
8. What large city was once the temporary capitol
of the Republic?
9. Where did the old Chisholm Trail originate?
10. This town used to be known as Waterloo?
ANSWERS
1. Tigua Indian Reservation in Ysleta (El Paso)
2. Poet, Ludwig Boerne
3. San Augustine
4. Terlingua
5. Camino Real (the Old San Antonio Road) blazed
in 1691 by the first provincial governor of Texas,
ordered by the King of Spain
6. Brenham
7. Hondo Creek; deep
8. Houston
9. Cuero
10. Austin
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ENTERTAINMENT
QUESTIONS
1. Was "Viva Terlingua!" recorded in Austin?
2. Who wrote the song "Crazy"?
3. What year was the Luckenbach Dance Hall built?
4. Who was the famous leader of the Texas
Playboys?
5. In the song, if you "go home with the
Armadillo", what kind of people will you find?
6. What act by a Texan signified the start of the out
law movement in country music?
7. Name the legendary Texas "law ‘n order" figure
played by both Paul Newman & Walter Brennan
in a movie?
8. Who wrote the song ‘Sangria Wine"?
9. Who wrote "Let’s go to Luckenbach, Texas" or
"Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of
Love")?
10. What cowboy actor was born in El Paso 44 years
after Texas won its Independence from Mexico?
exas
rivia
ANSWERS
1. No, Luckenbach
2. Willie Nelson
3. 1880
4. Bob Wills
5. "the friendliest people & the prettiest women
you ever seen"
6. Kris Kristofferson’s 1970 CMA Award
acceptance.
7. Judge Roy Bean
8. Jerry Jeff Walker
9. Chips Moman & Buddy Emmons
10. Tom Mix
D: James A. Michener
C: Benny Luckenbach (Bartender, Guich Kooch).
B: Opening Fredericksburg's first new public pool, 1950’s
A: Allen Damron, at Kerrville Folk Festival.
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NO PLACE BUT TEXAS
QUESTIONS
1. In 1901, what completely changed the state’s
economy?
2. What was the fourth flag to fly over Texas?
3. What Texas governor invited everyone in Texas to
his daughter’s wedding & had 35,000 take him up
on it?
4. Writer John Graves said goodbye to what river?
5. How long did the Battle of Jacinto last?
6. What early settlers in San Antonio were all made
hidalgos (the lowest order of nobility) as
inducement for them to move to Texas in 1731?
7. What did the Texans yell during the Battle of
Jacinto?
8. Who was the other person shot besides President
Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963?
9. What is the state motto?
10. Who wrote "Hondo, My Father"?
11. Why is the white line painted on the floor of the
Luckenbach Post Office-General Store?
ANSWERS
1. The discovery of oil.
2. The Republic of Texas (still the State flag)
3. "Pappy" O’Daniel
4. Brazos
5. 18 minutes
6. Canary Islanders
7. "Remember the Alamo!"
8. Governor John Connally
9. "Friendship"
10. Becky Crouch Patterson
11. To separate the U.S. Post Office from the
General Store (You can’t drink beer in the U.S.
Post office)
(Questions copied from
Texas Trivia, the Great State’s Great Trivia Game)
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HONDO TRIVIA
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A: In 1976 who is Hondo performing "Luckenbach Daylight" with &
where?
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B: What is the “swimming clown”
doing here?
C: For whom did Hondo retire his
chair in the corner of the ceiling of
the bar?
D: Who said, “Hondo was a legend
in his own mind?” (Seen here at
age 21)
Answers on page 4
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You can’t
forget
Memories
but couldn’t so they went back to San Antonio.
By now the settlers had it up to here with
Mexican rules and regulations. They decided to have
a meeting to decide what to do.
In the meantime battles were breaking out all
over. On February 23, 1836 a bunch of settlers holed
up in the old Alamo in San Antonio and decided to
fight any and all the Mexican troops that came by.
There were about 180 of them. The Mexican army
led by Santa Anna showed up with at least twentyfour hundred soldiers. By March 6, the settlers at the
Alamo had been defeated.
Santa Anna took out after Sam Houston who was
leading the Army of Texas. The pursuit known as the
"Run away scrape" went from Washington on the
Brazos down to San Jacinto Bay where Santa Anna
had the misfortune of catching Sam Houston.
The Battle of San Jacinto featured about 900
Texans against about 1300 of Santa Anna’s finest
took place in the middle of the afternoon. The battle
was over in 18 minutes. The Texans won. That is
where the Republic of Texas began.
Texas was an independent Republic for ten years.
During this time the Mexicans kept trying to get back
their land. The Texians had their hands full fighting
Mexicans on one side of the yard and Indians on the
other side of the yard.
This situation brought about the Texas Rangers
(Not baseball). The Rangers who were all volunteers,
for the most part unpaid, became the toughest kids on
the block, any block. They didn’t take names, they
just kicked butts.
In 1846 Texas joined the United States. This was
about the time the United States
got involved with the Mexican
American war. In that war the
Texas Rangers served as the
commando units and got a lot of
good marks..
Texas was pretty big when it
joined the Union. It brought with
it: New Mexico, Arizona, parts
of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado
and Wyoming. Nobody was sure just how big Texas
was as Lewis and Clark had not checked..
And that, boys and girls, is how Texas came to
be the most famous state in the Union..
March 2010
Copyright John Raven
March 2 is celebrated at Luckenbach as well as
all of Texas as Texas Independence Day. All the
movies about the Battle of the Alamo have sort of
clouded the real story.
Here is the real story from the Gospel according
to Raven.
Mexico was a part of New Spain after Spain took
it away from the Indians..Mexico revolted and broke
away from Spain and then there was Mexico..
Texas was a state in the country of Mexico. The
Mexican government encouraged Anglos to settle in
Texas thinking that the Anglos would solve the problem of the Indians who had been a thorn in Mexico’s
side from day one.
In 1822 the Austin family, Moses and Stephen F.
got a grant of land from Mexico to settle Texas. What
is known as the "Old Three Hundred" settlers were
located along the Brazos River where they took up
farming and fighting with the Indians.
About 1830 there were so many illegal Anglo
immigrants in Texas that Mexico started to try and
slow down the immigration by coming up with
things that made Anglos uncomfortable like taxes
every time you turned around.
There was talk of building a wall
along the Louisiana border. By
1834 there were over thirty-thousand Anglo settlers in Texas far
outnumbering the Seventy-eight
hundred settlers from Mexico.
Around 1835 the Mexican
government started violating the
settler’s second amendment
rights. A troop of soldiers was sent to Gonzales to
repossess a cannon Mexico had loaned the settlers to
use on the Indians..The settlers were set on keeping
the cannon. When the Mexican troops showed up in
Gonzales the settlers put up a sign that said, "Come
and take it" referring to the cannon. The troops tried
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MARCH CALENDAR
1st
Dale Mayfield-Picker Circle
5pm
Tue
2nd
Ben Beckendorf-Picker Circle
5pm
Wed
3rd
Kristen Sheppard-Picker Circle
5pm
Thu
4th
Cam King-Picker Circle
5pm
Fri
5th
Bill Lewis-Picker Circle
Dance - Eleven Hundred Springs
4pm
8pm
Sat
6th
Texas Independence Celebration
Noon
The Original Texas Star Trail Ride
4pm
Dance-Dusty Britches & the Rhythm Ranch Hands 8pm
Sun
7th
Jimmy Davis
Chris Berardo & the DesBerardos
1pm
3pm
Mon
8th
Dale Mayfield-Picker Circle
5pm
Tue
9th
Ben Beckendorf-Picker Circle
5pm
Wed
10th
Kristen Sheppard-Picker Circle
5pm
Thu
11th
Cam King-Picker Circle
5pm
Fri
12th
Bill Lewis-Picker Circle
Stephanie Urbina Jones • The Tejas Brothers
4pm
8pm
Spring Break Party
Doug Moreland/Dub Miller Acoustic
Micky & the Motorcars • Romi Mayes
• Mark Monaco Band
1pm
8pm
Sat
13th
14th
Susan Gibson • Jamie Wilson • Terri Hendrix
1pm
Mon
15th
Dale Mayfield-Picker Circle
5pm
Tue
16th
Ben Beckendorf-Picker Circle
5pm
Wed
17th
Kristen Sheppard-Picker Circle
5pm
Thu
18th
Cam King-Picker Circle
5pm
Fri
19th
Bill Lewis-Picker Circle
Dance - Bill Rice Band
4pm
8pm
Sat
20th
Outlaw Afternoon - Brigitte London
• W.C. Jameson • Bert David Newton
Dance - Mark Stuart
1pm
8pm
Sun
21st
Thomas Michael Riley & Mike Blakely
1pm
Mon
22nd
Dale Mayfield-Picker Circle
5pm
Tue
23rd
Ben Beckendorf-Picker Circle
5pm
Wed
24th
Kristen Sheppard-Picker Circle
5pm
Thu
25th
Cam King-Picker Circle
5pm
Fri
26th
Bill Lewis-Picker Circle
Dance - Bodie Powell
4pm
8pm
Sat
27th
Mud Dauber Fest & Ball
Kim Carson
John Evans
Dance - Doug Davis & the Note Ropers
1pm
3pm
8pm
Brian Ashley Jones
1pm
28th
Mon
29th
Dale Mayfield-Picker Circle
5pm
Tue
30th
Ben Beckendorf-Picker Circle
5pm
Wed
31st
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or take it off the grounds when you leave
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Monday-Friday - Jimmy Lee Jones-Picker Circle 1pm
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