July 30, 2006 - Luckenbach
1976 - I was in my first band. Eveready. We could never really decide whether to be Eveready or The Eveready Brothers. We got together in Mississippi and then moved to Austin which is still one of the biggest things to EVER happen to me. We all lived in one house on Post Road and had dogs that got let out by mistake by our rowdy Miss'ippi visiting friends, and that the police came to. No one got arrested. The drummer's father just needed for him to call home, and since we didn't have a phone he called the police. Also several friends came and played "naked slide down the stairs backwards" (I did not participate in this) while others complained that we were keeping their baby awake. She (the baby) ended up really cool - I went to her wedding, and she had to stand upright in a bread truck in her dress ($1500 dress) to get there. Married a firefighter.

So one day in about 1976 we were driving around in our Ford Econoline (bless its heart) van, and we saw this sign that said "Luckenbach" and we turned in and drove up and got out and went into the post office/bar/general store, and there were about five folks around a wood-burning stove playing checkers who welcomed us and got us long necks and sausage links. Back then the back roads of Texas were the things dreams are made of. May still be. So we ate and drank and sort of shyly left.

Then we came back on July 4, 1976 for Non-Buy-Centennial Day! You got arrested if you wore red, white, and blue. It was a protest of the commercialization of the bisontennial (Webb Wilderism). So here we were young and feisty and Hondo Crouch came up to me and kissed me and said, "No kissing, No kissing." I had seen him previously at the Rome Inn doing his cowboy poem, Luckenbach Moon.

So here he was:

So anyway, Phareaux says this is where we did a live set along with a dozen other bands and that we bonded with the Reynolds Sisters and their guitar-player, Slim.

So here we were:

We were cool and we could swing.