VOLUME 20 ISSUE 3
SATURDAY, MARCH 1ST
Texas Independence
NOON
Celebration
Texas Flag Retirement Ceremony
BRIAN BURNS • DOUG MORELAND
+ TEXAS STAR TRAILRIDE
DANCE - DUSTY BRITCHES
& the Rhythm
Ranch Hands
Dedicated to Peter Cedarstacker
March 2014
Spring Break Weekend
FRIDAY
Friday – March 7th • 8pm
8pm
STEPHANIE URBINA JONES – Dance
Saturday – March 8th
blacktopGYPSY
1pm
9pm
MICKY & THE MOTORCARS
LARRY
JOE
TAYLOR
and
+ CLAYTON GARDNER
1pm
March 21st
Sunday – March 9th
BRIAN KEENE • WILLIAM CLARK GREEN • SAM RIGGS
DERYL
DODD
Sat., March 22nd • Noon Sat., March 29th 9pm
BRUCE
MUD DAUBER/ROCK’N BILLY
ROBISON &
CHILI FEST
Reckless Kelly • Billy Joe Shaver
John Evans Band • Weldon Henson
Dale Watson • Chuck Mead • Cody Jinks
Public Choice Chili Cookoff
Kazoo Parade • Chicken Bingo
LUCKENBACH to Sun., March 30th
CHEATHAM ST. noon
Fundraiser for Kent Finlay
Ray Benson • Cody Canada
Max Stalling • Bruce Robison + more
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KELLY
WILLIS
1pm
SHAN & ANNIE
“Blame it on the Moon” CD Release
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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
HUG-IN
2014
Luckenbach Hug-In
By Walt Perryman 2/14/14
It is Friday night and it is going strong,
Everyone is eating, drinking or singing a song.
Pennsylvania camp is here like the old days.
There is music, singing and cooking like always.
George has his fire going and adding wood,
I just finished eating there, the food is good.
Dale Watson is singing in the dance hall,
People are dancing from wall to wall.
Yep, this is Friday night at the Hug-In.
Come Saturday and we will do it again.
Dale Watson
Doug Moreland
& Gary P. Nunn
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.
Help us keep Luckenbach legal, Please do not bring alcohol or take it off the grounds when you leave.
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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
I asked the weigher couldn’t he talk ‘em into
bein’ still friends and he said, "Nope, I tried. I
talked to ‘em together and they made me so mad I
shouted "as of this minit you are DIVORCED; now
get the h--- outa here and don’t you ever come
back."
"You can’t do that," I spoke, "That’s not legal.
They’ll probably go out and get married and make
bigamy, or somethin’. What’s wrong with you? I
asked" I said, "I married ‘em, didn’t I?"
Peter Cedarstacker
Writer
Remember: Fight for asthma.
The Wurstbottoms motored with Trapper
Gutowsky to Big Flat to the eye doctor Wed. of this
week. Said he didn’t look good.
Yesterday, the ‘Readers, Artists and Treatise
Society" (RATS) met at the Park Side Road. Me
and Mama attended the meetin’ last night and listened to ‘em say poetry, read a treatise and then philosophize on descriptive writin’.
Ho hum, as I stepped outa the house this
mornin’ a soft, moist spring breeze brushed my
warm face as the sun was eatin’ up the last of the
gray dawn, and lit the green, cool path I was to hotfoot down.
A giant silver spider web bent fore the gentle
gusts of friendly baby breezes and spilled several
jewels on the tranquil trail. Too bad I didn’t see it
before it stuck to my ruby-red lips and black eye
lashes.
The little red house looked farther away this
blue-gray mornin’ as it sat there at its happy angle.
Mama calls it the "Tower of Pizza." Once inside it
was warmer but darker as I picked up the soft, moist
catalogue and thumbed thru the transparent tractors.
The C.C.C.C. (that’s short for Cedar Creek
Chamber of Commerce to save space) met Wed. of
this week and resolved to have more celebrations
this year, includin’ Boy Scouts Anniversary, the
founding of Australia and the invention of
sheetrock. I hope to be with my tub on the refreshment committee.
The Bear Creek public weigher who does all
kinds of legal-like things because we trust him
divorced Jesus (pronounced Hey –soos) McNeil’s
cousins.
EVERYBODY’S
SOMEBODY
The Third Final Episode of the
Luckenbach/New York City
Cultural Exchange
By
Maggie Montgomery
Aka
Magnolia Thunder Blossom
The Luckenbach Songbird
Prezident of the Luckenbach Ladies
Lynchin' League
And
Queen of Everything (except France)
I know. I know. I keep saying that I'm sending out the
final episode of the NYC/Luckenbach Cultural
Exchange. It's turned into that epic story that seems
to never end. In fact it has digressed into the Third
Final Episode. I tend to get side tracked with other
note worthy events and characters who keep popping
up in the telling of this story.
I hope I'm not boring our avid MOON readers with
this story but then again how would I know? Nobody
out there ever writes to me, calls me or emails me.
Tap, tap is this thing on? I would appreciate some
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sign that someone out there is following this story.
You can email me at [email protected] if
you want to tell me how much you are enjoying this
thrilling saga. If you are not enjoying it then perhaps
you should keep it to yourself. I'm very sensitive. You
can also go to www.luckenbachtexas.com and then
click on MOON to read back issues that will refresh
your memory of earlier episodes of our adventure.
other New York intellectuals looking cool and very
smart? We had no idea what to expect. The elevator
door clanged open to reveal all of these people types
and lots more, the likes of which we had never seen
before.
Panic and fear clutched at the bosoms of the two
LLLL until Jani spotted two cowboy hats towering
above the crowd. Jani grabbed my arm and started
pulling me thru the rabble in their direction, relieved
that soon we would hook up with Jalapeño Sam
Lewis, Kent Finlay and the handsome and imposing
cowboy figure of Guich Koock and that guy named
Ed (see previous episodes of the MOON) all decked
out in their clean blue jeans and finest western regalia.
Last month's episode which appeared in the December
MOON last year left Allegani Jani and Magnolia
Thunder Blossom all gussied up and boarding the
rickety old elevator that would take them to the lobby
of the Chelsea Hotel where the doorman would hail
one of those scary cabs that flood the streets of New
York. We were hoping that we would land a charming
cab driver as opposed to our first cab driver who gave
the word "rudeness" new meaning. (See previous
episodes) www.luckenbachtexas.com. Everybody's
Somebody by Magnolia TB otherwise this writing
will make me look stoopid. Whoops, guess I already
said that. Try in' to make a point here. You should
write to me and let me know you're out there so I'll
know somebody's following this exciting story.
Being reunited with the other Luckenbach people
would put everyone back at ease. So the ladies pressed
onward through the crowd and finally met up with the
rest of the gang. After powerful hugs all around the
two gal pals let themselves be ushered toward the
front of the lobby where they would step outside into
the New York evening and get into a cab that would
take them for their first visit to the famed Lone Star
Cafe. There they would meet Mort Cooperman, the
THE ENCOUNTER
manager of the Cafe, who had invited to dinner, the
Luckenbach contingency along with other star studJani and Magnolia held hands preparing themselves ded Texans who were in New York in celebration of
for whatever hid behind the elevator door in the lobby. Texas Week in The Big Apple.
Would the lobby be deserted except for the rest of our
Daring Luckenbach Dozen. Or would it be crawling Not ten feet away from the loving hugs and safety, a
with rock stars and street people and hippie types and terrifying thing occurred. Out of the maddening crowd
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stepped 8 feet of silver lame' Bohemian-Behemoth
Horror. He wore a sleeveless silver wife-beater tshirt, and silver lame' britches with black-patent
leather-lace-up-elevator-heal-boots that went clear up
to his skinny thighs. The outfit was topped of by a 6"
high yellow Mohawk hair cut. It looked a chicken fan
attached to his head. All told, with the high hair and
the elevator boots, I'd say he stood about 8 feet, 19
inches tall. Not to mention the fact that he was just
plain butt ugly to start with. It was with great consternation that I was able to even look at him. But for just
a moment I remembered that I was there as a celeb
and a representative, well you might even have called
me an ambassador, from the GREAT State of Texas.
This was no time to be coy and charming and cutesy.
This was the show down. Slowly I raised my eyes
wide and innocent as a baby Texas Longhorn, up, up,
up and with all the courage I could muster at the time
stared straight into his steely, evil eyes.
Blossom. We’re here from Texas to play at the Lone
Star Cafe. Wanna come over and catch our show"?
"Nope," he said, "I gotta show just around the corner
here tonight. You should come and catch my show." I
asked him where he was playing and he told me the
place was called the F- - - .ers. I had quit laughing by
now and started thinking instead how to get us all the
heck out of this conversation and this situation. And
so I said it was nice to have met him and that he sure
did dress funny and he said he was just thinking how
my Mama sure did dress me funny too. Much later I
heard that Sid Vicious was the bass player for the
world famous Sex Pistols. And that my friends, is how
it happened, straight from the horse's mouth. The oddest encounter of my life turned from strange to ridiculous in a matter of just seconds. Funny how that happens sometimes. Years later they made a movie about
Sid and his girlfriend. Yep you guessed it; it was
called Sid and Nancy. The two were not glorified in
this movie rather they were portrayed in a seedy and
harmful atmosphere with The Chelsea Hotel as the
setting, where they would steal things from unsuspecting hotel guests to sell and to help in their evil
drug dealings. Just as they stole our cameras and all
our equipment from our room just hours before our
encounter downstairs. As a result of their evil pilfering
our report in the Moon which should have priceless
pictures, along with description that we had gathered
along our journey from Luckenbach to New York,
were depicted with hand drawn stick figures.
Somebody drew a great figure of the Empire State
Building and Jani and me and Guich Koock boarding
the train. There were no pictures of the trip up to New
York or for the rest of the adventure, seeing as how
going out and buying new equipment was not in our
travel budget at all.
It was Jimmy Stewart meets Jack Elam. Evil meets
Good. Hard Rock meets Folk Music. Long Horn
meets Green Horn. Frankenstein meets Wolf Woman.
Suddenly it was like E F Hutton spoke. Not a pin drop
could be heard.
I stared long and hard into his evil eyes, determined
not to show any emotion, especially fear. I stood 5
feet, 2 inches tall and the adversary stood maybe, 8
feet, 2 inches tall but people who saw this encounter
say the match looked pretty even. As we stood there
eyes transfixed on each other it occurred to me that
this guy had on more Mascara than Jani and I put
together and the thought just struck me as funny and
you know how it is sometimes when you’re in Church
and something funny happens and you’re just dying to
laugh but you know if you laugh your Mama's gonna
reach over there and pinch you on the leg and that'll Stay tuned to the The MOON next month we'll do a
just hurt so bad that it makes it even funnier? You story about Luckenbach's own Jimmy Lee Jones.
remember that when you were a kid? Well that's what
happened right there in front of the Chelsea Hotel in Come see us in Luckenbach. We'll be waitin' for ya!
New York City. All of a sudden his appearance just
struck me as being so funny I just had to start laughing and I couldn't stop. By this time I'm to the knee
slapping stage of laughter and that's when he started
laughing. Finally as soon as I could catch my breath I
pointed at him and said, "Who are you"? To which he
replied, "I'm Sid Vicious." As my knees started to
knocking again I said, "I'm Magnolia Thunder
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The Rangers saw great possibilities for the revolvers. The
downside of the revolver was that it had to be taken apart
into three pieces to reload it. Not easy while riding a horse.
The Rangers sent Samuel Walker to find Samuel Colt and
the result was the Colt Walker which was a large, brutal
killing machine which "Won the West".
When the United States went to war with Mexico over a
lot of bad stuff that was happening on the border the US
March 2014
troops were having a tough go of it. The Texas Rangers were
Copyright John Raven
called in to act as "Special Forces" for the army. The Rangers
heroic actions in Mexico made them known worldwide.
John Coffee Hays, a Texas Ranger.
When victory was in hand, the US Army sent the Rangers
John Coffee Hays was born in 1817 in Wilson County, home. The Rangers were not to be messed with by anyone.
Tennessee. He came from a prominent family that was While in Mexico they settled some debts from previous
friends with Sam Houston and Andrew Jackson.
meetings with the Mexicans. The US Army was happy to
Hays came to Texas in 1836 the year Texas became a see them go.
Republic. He obtained work in San Antonio as a surveyor.
Back in Texas Capt. Jack continued to ride the country. He
He was first noted in a military role when he took part in the was getting a bit weary of being shot at nearly every day and
Battle of Plum Creek where a large raiding party of not getting paid for it. (The Rangers never had uniforms or
Comanche Indians were ambushed after sacking Victoria badges. They were required to bring their own horses and
and Linnville.
arms. They found themselves in bad situations. A rancher
After that, Hays was put in charge of the Ranger troop at would call for the Rangers to guard his cattle herd. The
San Antonio and fought many battles with Indian,
rustling would stop and then the rancher would
Mexican and outlaw forces. Hays quickly
complain that the Rangers were eating his
developed a reputation for being fearless
sheep. )
and a great leader of men.
Captain Jack got appointed Indian
He was described as being about
agent in New Mexico and Arizona.
five-feet, nine-inches tall and weighHe couldn’t find anything to like
ing 160-170 pounds. He had coal
about "tame" Indians so he moved
black hair and piercing eyes. He was
on to California. He got an appointsaid to be very quiet and polite.
ment as surveyor in San Francisco
On the battle field Hays was a little
County. He laid out the city of
piece of hell. "Captain Jack" as he was
Oakland.
He was soon elected
known was the first to learn how to deal
Sheriff of San Francisco County in
with Indian forces when they were in the
1850.
Capt. Jack Hays
majority, which was most of the time. The
Hays made some good investments and
standard practice at the time was for the Rangers to
made a very comfortable living.
dismount when facing Indians and use their long rifles. The
In 1860 he was visiting in Nevada and got drafted to overIndians had an advantage as in the time it took to reload a see the Second Battle of Pyramid Lake. He won his last fight
long rifle, the Indian could shoot six or eight arrows from with the Indians.
horseback with great accuracy.
Capt. Jack sat out the Civil War
Somewhere Capt. Jack and his men
and amassed a little more fortune.
obtained the new revolving pistols
In 1876 he was a delegate to the
made by Samuel Colt. These were
Democratic
National Convention.
Colt
small pistols but they would shoot five
Capt. Jack died in 1883 and is
Paterson
times without reloading.
The
buried in Oakland, California.
revolvers were about .32 caliber.
At the Battle of Bandera Pass, Capt. Jack’s new battle plan The early Rangers worked for no pay and no comfort. They
was tested. When the Rangers came upon a large party of were not in their occupation so that all men could be free.
Indians Hays had them charge into the Indians with instruc- They were there because it was something they liked to do
tions to "Burn em boys". The result was a rout of the and they were the best at doing it. A little glory and an occaIndians. The Chief of the band said he would never fight sional pat on the back are great motivators
Capt. Jack again.
You can’t
forget
Memories
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MARCH CALENDAR
1st
Texas Independence Celebration
Texas Flag Retirement Ceremony
Brian Burns • Doug Moreland
The Original Texas Star Trail Ride
Dusty Britches & the Rhythm Ranch Hands - Dance
Sun 2nd Walt Wilkins, Owen Temple & Kevin Higgins
1pm
Mon 3rd Sol Patch-Picker Circle
5pm
Tue
Emily Herring-Picker Circle
5pm
Wed 5th
T-Roy & Candace Miller-Picker Circle
5pm
Thu 6th
Kathleen O'Keefe-Picker Circle
5pm
Fri
7th
Doug Moreland Trio
Stephanie Urbina Jones - Dance
4pm
8pm
Sat
8th
Spring Break Weekend
blacktopGYSPY
Micky & the Motorcars + Clayton Gardner
Brian Keane • William Clark Green
Sam Riggs • Special Guest
1pm
9pm
4th
Sun 9th
5pm
Tue
5pm
11th Emily Herring-Picker Circle
Wed 12th T-Roy & Candace Miller-Picker Circle
5pm
Thu 13th Kathleen O'Keefe-Picker Circle
5pm
Fri
14th Jake Martin & Bill Lewis
Thomas Michael Riley - Dance
4pm
8pm
15th Thom Shepherd & Coley McCabe
Mike & the Moonpies - Dance
1pm
9pm
Sun 16th Jason Eady, Jamie Wilson & Evan Felker
1pm
Mon 17th Sol Patch-Picker Circle
5pm
Tue
5pm
18th Emily Herring-Picker Circle
Wed 19th T-Roy & Candace Miller-Picker Circle
5pm
Thu 20th Kathleen O'Keefe-Picker Circle
5pm
Fri
4pm
8pm
Sat
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Mon 24th Sol Patch-Picker Circle
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