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Texas Music Times
“THE RED DIRT IS HERE”
NOVEMBER 2006
FOR FANS BY FANS
JASON BOLAND AND THE STRAGGLERS
“The Bourbon Legend”
LARGEST MAGAZINE IN TEXAS MUSIC
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WHATS INSIDE:
team texas music times
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Jason Boland and the stragglers
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Johnny Cooper
publisher and editor in chieF
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Sterling Finlay
rachel taylor
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Robert Cherry
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Granger Smith
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RRB in NYC
Keith howerton
copy editor
danielle howerton
layout and design
jamie wilson
ad design
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15 Full Throttle
15 Trent Summar
23 cross canadian ragweed
web master
rebecca howerton
sales and marketing
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the wormy dog celebration
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Wade Bowen and
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Eli young band
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ryan bales
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south of nowhere
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jack ingram’s RAM Fest
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Hayes Carll
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TMT PROFILe five
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Joe Ely at Gruene Hall
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The film coyote funeral
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The Claw-Italian texas music
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bleu edmondson
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bart crow
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missy querry
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gEorge Bancroft with the tale
behined the Tunes
numerous writers and contributors
cover photo courtesy of sustain records
and all the artists and fans that keep iT real....
god bless
contact our writers, contributors and staff
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I said, “Well, you can sure do that.” He said,
“You got any more of them cowboy songs?”
I said, “Yeah. I got a whole sack full of ‘em
here,” and he said, “Well, come on up to Nashville, and I’ll record a whole album.”
And that’s the last I seen him. I went on up to
Nashville, and I chased him around, God, I bet
six weeks. I’d call over to his place over there,
and he’s on the line. And they said he’s on the
other line, and I knew he didn’t have but one
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posed to let me in..folks like me. I come in. I
was kind of weather-worn, and beat-up, broke,
and I went ahead and stood there for a while
down at the end of the hall there because (there
were) these lines of women and everybody
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Waylon was gonna do something, but they just
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didn’t know when or how, so I stood there for
a while, and Waylon peeked his head out and
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people ‘cause Waylon was the biggest thing
goin’, I guess. Well, he hadn’t really done it yet,
Yeah
but he was gonna do something and everybody
knew it. He said, “What do you want, Hoss?”
And you went up to Nashville. Could you tell
I said, “Well, now, ya know, ya told me to come
me that story because I want to hear it from
up here, and you’d record my songs,” and I
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says, “I don’t expect you to record ‘em, but I
do expect you to listen to ‘em, and if you don’t,
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everybody.”
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cowboy’n then, and I was working on ranches
he grabbed ‘em and held them back, and he
and stuff. I start playin’ Willy the Wandering
walked on up there to me, and he looked at me
Gypy and Me. I heard a commotion in the back
right in the eye, and I was ready. You know...
and, boy, out busts Waylon, and he’s doin’
I had my little ol’ guitar with me ‘cause I didn’t
God knows what back there, but he says, “I
have nowhere else to put it, and I thought he
gotta have that song.” I said, “Well, what do
was gonna take a swing at me, but he didn’t
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‘cause
cause I was ready
ready, ya know
know. I was a pretty
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I’m pretty good, and he kinda eased over there
and grabbed me by my shoulder - - right where
that funny bone is. People who know how to
do that can do it, and he walked me into this
other room, and he told me, “I’ll tell ya what
I’m gonna do. I’m gonna do something for
you. I’m gonna do that one song, Willy the
Wandering Gypsy and Me. I tell you what...
I’m gonna let you sing, sing another song for
me. I’m gonna make you a deal. I know you
got a bunch of songs there, but if you sing one
song for me that I don’t like...then, man, out that
door you go. I don’t ever see you again. I said,
“That’s fair enough.” So, I sang Ain’t No God
in Mexico, and then I sang him Old Five and
Dimers, I think and then Low Down Freedom,
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just slapped hisself on the leg and said, “Man I
know what I gotta do now, damn it.”
He went back in there and changed everything
around. Boy, they got mad at him. Chet Atkins,
the whole town was mad at him ‘cause these
songs I had were real raw and different. They
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‘em which they wadn’t even saying back then.
Ya know... ain’t no God in Mexico, and all that
stuff, and they all just knew it was gonna bring
Nashville down, sure enough, it didn’t. It
brought it up, so it worked out good for me, and
that’s how it happened, and Waylon did stick
his neck out . He took his own band in there
and played ‘em and did the whole thing. Those
were the kind of songs that none of the players
there could have played. They were a little too
slick. His band wasn’t. They were like....Richie
Albright was from Oklahoma. . . always had
that heavy beat. I always want to accuse Waylon of inventing that disco beat. He came out
with that beat before disco came out. I believe
that’s where it came from. May he turn over in
his grave.
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Live and Loud at Cain’s with Cross Canadian Ragweed
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