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jumping second year
wonder George Hill
was developing faster
Before the NBA than was first expectseason started this ed, and the biggest
year, Spurs owner steal in the NBA draft
Peter Holt and coach was even more imGregg Popovich were pressive and intimidatall smiles and brim- ing than anyone had
ming with confidence. imagined.
Holt had untied the Wouldnʼt
rookie
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for Richard Jefferson Mark Cuban from
and Antonio McDyess, sleeping well right up
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wedge in with the “Big This gang of raw
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Tony Parker, and the to develop into a title
big snozz from Argen- contender before the
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there was even more seed in the NBA westto make a Spurs fan ern conference playgrin from ear to ear.
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Long armed, high All of this, plus
Action sports analyst
a firstround opening
loss to Dallas which
caused a fire-breathing Popovich to say
that his team played
like a bunch of dogs.
The Spurs still
have some ragged
edges, but it is becoming apparent that the
boys in the black suits
represent a formidable
danger.
It comes as no surprise here that Dallas
canʼt beat San Antonio
over a sevengame series. And while Popʼs
“dogs” tend to unravel
at times as they did
in the fourth game
against Dallas, they
bounce back fast and
hard.
And the uncertainty is over. Tony Parker
has recovered from a
broken hand and nu-
merous other injuries.
Tim Duncan is
healthy, although he
went an entire game
with only a single basket. And there is no
immediate danger of
losing Manu Ginobili to
free agency. His threeyear multi-million contract is secure, and
the Argentine dynamo
will probably finish his
basketball career in
San Antonio.
As for the rookie
who plays like a wild
bull in a china closet,
just hide and watch.
DeJuan Blair will go
no place but up in the
Spurs organization.
He fouls too much
now, but he brings
awesome strength, a
Rodman like rebounding talent, and an energy level that can turn
a game.
I have been laying
low and watching from
the bushes where I
spend some of my
time. And I am beginning to sense possibilities which few considered at midseason.
Didnʼt San Antonio
beat Los Angeles a
couple of time.
I believe we also
got a win or two over
Oklahoma City, and
if my eyes werenʼt lying to me, I think I saw
the Spurs whack both
Boston and LeBronʼs
NBA-leading Cleveland as the regular
season ground to a
close.
I know three things
for sure. A rooster is a
bird, a 300-pound dog
is a mighty big dog,
and Mark Cuban is not
to be taken too seriously.
Peter Holt was
probably on when he
said Cuban knows
how to sell basketball
tickets. With his “I hate
San Antonio” rhetoric,
the Maverickʼs owner
knows how to rile up
the Alamo City natives,
but he doesnʼt have to
work at it too hard. He
is a naturalborn prick
from the git-go, so we
know what to expect.
The Spurs know
how to silence Cuban.
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Anything might be
possible with Popʼs
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This is about my friend Edgar Boeck.
He damn near died on Good Friday in a horrific
traffic accident that killed his longtime girlfriend Rona
Fields.
Boeck is a colorful character and mechanical genius from the Bulverde area who, like me, has fought
personal demons throughout the years.
The accident was no fault of Edgarʼs.
His back was
fractured, he suffered bad head trauma, his spleen was
ruptured, and both
legs were busted in
various places below the knees, but
Boeck is going to
make it.
When I visited
him in the hospital
last month he was
still dazed and a
Edgar & Rona
bit confused, but
the fog was clearing fast and doctors say he will
regain full use of his mental facilities.
At the time of my visit, Edgar had not been told
of Ronaʼs death.
According to Edgarʼs sister, Bobbie Palafox, medics expect him to be walking by September, although it
is yet to be determined if he will recover sufficiently to
resume the automotive mechanical work he loves and
excels at.
If I know Boeck, he will astound the medics when
everything is said and done. He is pack mule strong with
no more than a thimble full of body fat on his 61-yearold frame, and he has a singleness-of-purpose mentality which enables him to accomplish remarkable feats.
He can find arrow points and other Indian artifacts with
radar-like instincts, and I saw the remains of a wooly
mammoth he dug out of some obscure gravel pit.
Boeck is an artist with a welding torch. He has
built and raced stock cars for years, at one time
holding a flat track world record. And I own a utility trailer Edgar built which wows any welder or
iron worker who sees it. The little trailer is strong
enough to haul a load of anvils. It is a testament to
Boeckʼs professional work ethic and dedication to
his craft. And Edgar has always been one of those
people who stands ready to do anything for those
he likes.
Edgar and I have been friends for almost 30 years,
living only three miles apart in the Bulverde area for
most of the time. And it is no secret that the both of
us have had our problems with the drug methamphetamine.
“If we could break our dope habits,” Edgar once
told me, “there is no damn telling what we could accomplish.”
After being busted on felony drug possession
charges four times, and after violating one 10-year-probation, I finally made the break in 1989. On October 16
of this year, I marked 20 years both clean and sober.
Edgar fought the fight over a longer span of time,
making repeated trips to state penal facilities before finally emerging with a new attitude and an obvious sparkle in his eyes.
“I canʼt hardly believe we did all of those
damned drugs,” Edgar said when I ran across him
in February at the Texas 46 Bar and Grill where he
and girlfriend Rona Fields, 45, were country dancing and visiting with friends. “I finally got the help I
needed in prison. Iʼm squeaky clean now, and I aim
to stay that way.”
Rona Fields, a mother of four, had been the love
of Edgarʼs life for most of the years I have known him,
and they both radiated happiness when I snapped the
picture of them which appears with this column.
Rona hugged my neck and kissed me before dragging Edgar back onto the dance floor. T. Kay and Sweetfire were providing the music that night.
Nobody could imagine the horror which awaited the
couple.
While attempting on April 2 (Good Friday) to turn
into property where he lives off of Texas Highway 46, the
1997 Chevrolet pickup Boeck was driving was slammed
from behind by a dump truck driven by 43-year-old Brian Robinson of New Braunfels.
Boeck was waiting for oncoming east bound
traffic to pass so he could turn left into is driveway at 21900 Highway 46, about three miles west of
Highway 281, when Robinsonʼs dump hit him.
Investigators said there were no skid marks or any
other indication the dump truck attempted to stop or
miss Boeckʼs truck.
The dump truck is owned boy Stone & Soil Depot
and Company with home offices in Boerne and a retail
yard on U.S. 281 just north of the 281 and Texas 46
intersection.
The initial impact propelled Edgarʼs truck into the
path of eastbound oncoming traffic where he collided
headon with a Ford F-350 driven by 19-year-old Brandon Caseras of Spring Branch.
A fourth vehicle, a Nissan pickup driven by Corey
Stevens of New Braunfels, was also traveling east behind the Ford truck. It plowed into both the Ford and
Edgarʼs Chevrolet truck, while the dump truck continued on west about a tenth of a mile, running through a
fence on Boeckʼs property and coming to rest on top of
a hill.
The stretch of Texas Hwy. 46 where the accident
occurred is a straight-away between a curve to the
east and a long incline to the west with a posted
speed limit of 55 m.p.h. Rona Fields was dead at the
scene. Boeck was airlifted to University Hospital, not
expected to live at the time.
The Fordʼs driver, Brandon Casares, was also airlifted to University Hospital. He was released the next
day after being treated for a knee injury.
Edgar and Rona were both thrown some 30 feet
from Bockʼs truck.
The dump truck driver and the Nissan driver were
not injured.
An investigation of the accident is under way. There
have been reports that the dump truck driver may have
a questionable driving record. Bobbie Palafox, Boeckʼs
sister, said lawsuits are being prepared, both for Edgar
and in behalf of Rona Fieldsʼ four kids.
Janice Gibson, Rona Fieldsʼ mother, noted that
Edgar was the love of Ronaʼs life.
“She was so happy and full of life,” Gibson said.
“She went beside the one she loved.”
Bulverde Fire Chief Charlie Ivy marveled that Boeck
survived what Ivy described as the worst accident he
had ever seen.
“He must be one tough guy,” Ivy said.
The chief has it right. And thatʼs why I instinctly
know that Edgar will pull off some sort of amazing recovery.
Action Magazine, May 2010 • 5 •
Jimmy Lee Jones smacks of Willie and Waylon
Willie Nelson is alleged to have said that
Jimmy Lee Jones is the
best kept secret in Texas.
This might be true, and
there are a few obvious
signs of verification.
Jones, a fixture in the
Jimmy Lee Jones
hamlet of Luckenbach, has
opened shows for Nelson
some 40 times, recorded
two albums of highly acclaimed original Texas
music, and appeared with
such music legends as
Ray Price and Merle Haggard. But go to his website
and you will find only a
two-paragraph biography.
Asked about his relative anonymity, Jimmy Lee
allows as how he should
get around to putting
something on the internet
that would more or less
introduce him to the cyber
public.
“I know I need to get
better organized,” Jones
says. “Iʼm going to try to
work on it some.”
Jones appeared in
San Antonio last month
at Fiasco with a group he
calls Jimmy Lee Jones and
a Creep at the Steel.
The “Creep” at the
steel is steel guitar player
Dean Rimmer, who also
contributes lead work on
both guitar and banjo.
Fond KIser is on guitar and vocals. The bass
guitar player is Ray Fisher. Soapy Hopkins is the
drummer.
A graduate of Crane
High School on the dusty
plains of West Texas, Jimmy Lee grew up in the oil
field town which is located
just southwest of Odessa.
The 57-year-old Jones
served a stint in the Marines before returning to
West Texas in the 1980s
where he worked the oil
fields by day and the honky-tonks by night, earning
a degree in petroleum engineering along the way.
Now a resident of
Stonewall, Jones said he
reached Luckenbach 12
years ago, and has been
hanging out there ever
since.
“I play solo for the tourists at Luckenbach from 1
p.m. until 4 p.m. Mondays
through Fridays,” Jones
said. “And I am starting to
get out more with the band,
working clubs in both Aus-
tin and San Antonio.”
Jones truly has a big
league voice, and the
Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings influences
are audible. Jones even
phrases on some songs
like Willie.
He covered the outlaws at his Fiasco gig, and
performed a number of
originals as well.
Two covers that Jones
does exceptionally well
are Mike Blakelyʼs Last
Comanche Moon and
Vern Gosdinʼs Chiseled in
Stone.
“My music is Texas
country,” Jones said. “I
have worked on a number of Willieʼs picnics, and
I have opened more than
40 shows for him, many
of them at Floore Store in
Helotes. I have opened
10 shows for Merle Haggard and 10 shows for
Ray Price. And I have also
opened a few shows for
Pat Green.”
You wonʼt hear Jimmy
Lee Jones doing any Garth
Brooks numbers.
“Garth Brooks did to
country music what pantyhose did to finger-fuckinʼ,”
Jones laughs. “And that
ainʼt an original line. I
heard Ray Price say it.”
Jones has returned to
play music in his old home
town only once.
“It was a fund-raiser
for the Crane Fire Department,” Jones said. “My
brother is still on the volunteer fire department in
Crane.”
Jimmy Lee says he is
now getting serious with
some material he aims to
put on a upcoming CD.
“It will be real Texas
music,” he said.
Hopefully, he can get
some air play and distribution for the record. And
while he is at it, maybe
Jones could scare up a
comprehensive biography
for his website.
Willie would probably agree that Jimmy Lee
Jones has been a well kept
secret long enough.
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Action Magazine, May 2010 • 7 •
The Pride of Marble Falls
By Sam Kindrick
Many years ago, an
old bluesman by the name
of M.L. Heflin laid it on the
line for Marble Falls singer
and songwriter John Arthur Martinez.
Heflin said: “I have a
little bad news to share
with you, John Arthur. You
are a lifer. I donʼt know if
it has occurred to you yet,
but you will be writing and
playing music professionally for as long as you remain on this earth.”
According to Martinez, Heflin had it right,
and the Hill Country native
who broke out on the national music scene in 2003
wouldnʼt have it any other
way.
Until 2003, when he
auditioned for the national Nashville Star TV talent search, John Arthur
was a high school writing
teacher and tennis coach.
In his spare time, he was
penning music and testing out his lyrical creations
at such eclectic training
grounds as Kent Finlayʼs
Cheatham Street Warehouse in San Marcos.
It was at Cheatham
Street that Martinez started rubbing shoulders with
the likes of Terri Hendrix,
James McMurtry, Hal Ketchum, and Bruce Robison.
It was Bruceʼs brother
Charlie who encouraged
John Arthur to audition for
Nashville Star.
While Buddy Jewell
won the contest, Martinez
finished second in front
of Miranda Lambert, and
the result was a record
deal with Dualtone and a
recording of Lone Starry
Night, the John Arthur cd
produced by Matt Rollings
of Lyle Lovettʼs band. Lone
Starry Night hit number 49
on Billboardʼs top country
albums chart.
“This was when my
day job ended,” Martinez
said. “A number of doors
began opening for me after the Nashville Star talent search, and I have
been happily doing full
time music ever since.”
Augie
Meyers
punched on me to write
something about John
Arthur Martinez several
years ago, but jAm (Martinez uses lower case letters on his first and last
Chris (Superman) Reeves
• 8 • Action Magazine, May 2010
names) hasnʼt exactly
been a fixture on the San
Antonio music scene. So
I packed up the camera,
the digital recorder, and
the Big Chief writing tablet, and motored to Marble
Falls last month for John
Arthurʼs weekly Wednesday night performance at
the River City Grille.
He is everything he
is cracked up to be and
more, an original and creative purveyor of Texas
music which incorporates
the genres of country,
Tex-Mex, western swing,
and even a bit of blues
and jazz. He is an accomplished guitarist, a fine vocalist, and a rafter-raising
performer who puts on
one hell of a show. jAm is
one of the real ones.
“They call me John
Arthur,” he said. “Like Billy
Bob. I was born in Austin,
and raised on a ranch near
Round Mountain just down
the road from here. I have
had you and Action Magazine on my radar for some
time. And I am a friend of
Joe Cardenas, who you
have pictured on your
website.”
Martinez
regularly
plays Europe. He has released a total of nine albums, the last one being
his highly-acclaimed Purgatory Road. He appeared
on Nashvilleʼs Grand Ole
Opry with Charlie Pride
and Carrie Underwood,
and his music has been
recorded by other artists,
most notably his tune Seguro Que Hell Yes which
Flaco Jimenez included on
his most recent Grammy
winning cd.
“Flaco recorded it, as
did Raul Malo,” Martinez
said. “Flaco putting the
song on his Grammy cd
did a lot for my credibility
as a songwriter.”
John Arthur Martinez
exudes an aura of honest
humility which is not lost
on his audience.
“I really love what I
do,” he said. “And I really
love the people who come
out to hear me and buy
my records. Without these
people, I would not be able
to do what I am privileged
to do today.”
At the Marble Falls
River City Grille show, jAm
worked with a smoking-hot
lead guitarist by the name
of Chris Reeves. In honor
of fallen film star Christopher Reeve, Chris Reeves
wears a Superman cap
which fittingly defines his
guitar mastery.
“Sometimes I carry a
full band called John Arthur Martinez and Tejas,”
Martinez said. “I work a lot,
too, with Mike Blakely, another talented singer and
songwriter from Marble
Falls. And I do solo gigs
like this one. But no matter
where I am playing, I am
always with Chris Reeves.
He is truly my Superman
on the guitar.”
Martinez puts his own
twist on any cover tune he
does, although he says
90 percent of the music
he performs is material he
has written and recorded
himself.
“There are bands like
Duck Soup in Austin that
make a lot of money doing
nothing but covers,” Martinez said. “I could never do
it, because no cover song
ever sounds exactly like
the original performed by
the person who wrote it. If
I do a tribute to someone
elseʼs work, I have got to
do it in my own special
way.”
In English and Spanish,
Martinez
regales
with such hits as George
Straitʼs Amarillo by Morning. And while the late Bob
John Arthur Martinez
Wills might have trouble
recognizing John Arthurʼs
bi-lingual version of Roly
Poly, the audience cracks
up and often sings along.
“I include a variety
of styles in my music,”
Martinez said. “I guess
Iʼm sort of like Augie and
Doug Sahm with my mixtures. And Willie, too. Iʼve
got some straight country, some not-so-straight
country, and even some
western swing in my
songs. And the Tex-Mex
stuff has a big appeal in
Texas and, believe it or
not, internationally as well.
Itʼs really crazy, but European audiences simply
love the bi-lingual stuff.”
jAm credits the late
Freddy Fender and Johnny Rodriguez for the acceptance and burgeoning
popularity of Tex-Mex music.
Martinez said:
“Freddy sort of got the
ball rolling with tunes like
After the Last Teardrop
Falls and Wasted Days
and Wasted Nights, but
I consider Johnny Rod to
be the big trail blazer for
bi-lingual country music.
He is the one who took the
machete to the weeds and
carved out a really big trail
for the rest of us to follow.
“Johnny
Rodriguez
falls in there with Willie Nelson, Ray Benson,
Dan Fogelberg, Robert
Earl Keen, James Taylor,
Carlos Santana, Flaco Jimenez, and the Bandera
area Robison’s as my early influences. And I count
“jAm” Cont’d on pg. 14
Martinez backs neice Jessica Ortiz
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Scatter Shots
Augie Meyers
Augie made it!
Augie Meyers is recovering nicely after a
kidney transplant which
appears to be a bell-ring-
ing success.
Following the transplant operation by Dr.
Francis Wright, the surgeon who transplanted a
donor kidney into former
Spurs star Sean Elliott,
Meyers awakened with a
shouted question.
“Where am I?” he
yelled.
“You are in the hospital,” answered Augieʼs
son Clay. “You had the
transplant.”
“I made it?” Augie
said.
“You made it,” Clay
answered.
The Texas music legend who has starred all
over the world with his
own bands, the fabled
Sir Douglas Quintet, and,
more recently, the Texas
Tornados, is still cracking wise and unloading
some jokes he has carried around since childhood.
“He is still full of shit,
and you can quote me
on it,” said son Clay, “but
we are all really relieved
and very grateful for
Augieʼs chance at a new
lease on life. The kidney
started functioning within
minutes after the transplant.”
When Augie peed,
a bunch of folks heaved
sighs of relief, including
Flaco Jimenez, Shawn
Sahm, and other members of the revamped
Texas Tornadoes band.
As the Tornados
were preparing for a resurgence with vocalist
Shawn Sahm replac-
ing his late father Doug
Sahm, Meyers was visibly tiring from daily dialysis treatments which
sapped his strength and
muddled his mind.
Approaching
his
70th birthday this month,
Meyers was in his final
year of eligibility for the
kidney transplant list,
and a queue of prospective donors began lining
up after a call for help
went out.
Augieʼs son Clay
placed a plea for help on
Augieʼs website; KSATTV reporter Simon Guiterrez spotlighted the
Meyers dilemma on
Channel 12; an article
appeared in this humble
sheet, and there were
many others who put out
the word.
“There were a number of friends and fans
who offered to donate,”
Clay Meyers said. “I believe the second volunteer was the one who
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Ceiling fans whirred,
rustling a canopy of
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material
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The lighting was low,
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The setting was
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The marquee reads:
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The cover was $10.
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conjunto
accordionist
Flaco Jimenezʼs 56year recording career.
It was also hyped as a
celebration of his very
first recording, a polka
titled Hasta La Vista.,
with bajo sexto master
Hugo Gonzalez singing
Pobre Bohemio on the
flip side.
Fittingly,
Hugo
Gonzalez was on the
Rubenʼs stage with
Jimenez last month,
along with other Jimenez compadres from
the mesquite and chaparral network of South
Texas beer joints once
referred to as the “taco
circuit.”
The crowd knew
what to expect, and Jimenez didnʼt let them
down.
He required help
getting on the stage, results of recent eye surgery which explained
the dark glasses. But
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Gold fittings twinkling in his smile, Jimenez kicked off the
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vocalist who works a
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“I drove up here to
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This is really a special
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my girlfriend.”
Asked during a
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near hanging it up as a
performing
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Jimenez said, “No way.
This is just it for me as
a solo recording artist.
The Texas Tornados are
on the way back, and I
will be working again
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“jAm” Cont’d from pg. 8
Kent Finlay of San Marcos
and the Cheatham Street
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one. I really appreciate
what Johnny Rodriguez
has done for all of country
music.”
As a writer, Martinez
tells people he went to the
Hank Williams school of
songwriting.
“I always try to capture
Hankʼs ability to marry a
lyric with the melody,” he
said. “I know I am somewhat of an impulse writer,
but I also have to work
at it. Iʼm not one of those
guys who sets up a schedule and makes appointments for myself. There
has got to be both focus
and spontaneity for things
to work out.”
Raised by his mother
and stepfather on a ranch
near Round Mountain,
between Austin and San
Antonio, Martinez recalls
his own father struggling
to make a living as a musician before giving up that
dream.
Determined to take a
straighter and more conventional path, young jAm
graduated from Texas
State University with a degree in English and broadcast journalism. He went
to Texas State on a tennis
scholarship. Then he did
graduate work at the University of Arizona in Tucson where he studied for a
masters in journalism.
He worked as a high
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first pilgrimage to Nashville. The trips to Nashville
continued, and the rest is
music history.
In addition to Lone
Starry Night and his new
cd Purgatory Road, John
Arthur Martinez has released seven other albums. They include Spinning Our Wheels, Stand
Your
Ground,
Rodeo
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Amor Amor, Live in New
England, and a duet album
with Mike Blakely called
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In 1999, John Arthur
married his wife Yvonna,
and became stepfather to
her four children. She has
remained his biggest supporter since the two met.
With Purgatory Road,
his first album on the
Apache Ranch Records
label, Martinez says his
career is coming full-circle.
“The album actually
spans three decades in
terms of the writing,” Martinez says. “Que No Puede Verʼ was written in the
ʻ80s; Thunder and Lightning and The Ride were
written in the ʻ90s. Songs
like Cobalt Blue were written when I was courting
my wife 11 years ago. This
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After he was found
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that he acted in self defense, and while gathering with friends outside
the courthouse, Shaver
told a reporter: “I am
very sorry about all this.
Hopefully things will work
out where we become
friends enough so that
Coker gives me back my
bullet.”
Billy Joe is 70, while
Coker is in his 50s. And
testimony indicated that
Coker might have stirred
Shaverʼs drink with a
knife before wiping the
blade on Billy Joeʼs shirt
as the two argued.
Those who know
Billy Joe well will tell you
the age difference between the two men is not
relevant. Anyone who
would wipe a knife blade
on Billy Joe Shaverʼs
shirt is a candidate for
the loony bin, and Billy
“Scatter Shots” Cont’d from pg. 11 Bryant Coker is extremefeared for his life before ly fortunate that he only
pulling the trigger on a suffered a bullet hole in
his upper lip.
.22 pistol.
“Being the John
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that I am, I went ahead Despite rain, wind,
and got to the door, too,” and a goodly amount of
Shaver testified.
mud, Luckenbachʼs Hat
A witness testified Festival went over big
he saw Coker going at last month.
Shaver with a knife.
As the skies began
Shaver testified he clearing shortly after
feared that Coker was noon, the crowds regoing to kill him.
sponded, and by sun “He was a big bully,” down the Luckenbach
Shaver said. “The worst
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“Iʼm like the menu at a
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enchiladas; there is the
spinach veggie omelet,
and thereʼs a fresh pecan
pie. It all comes out of the
same kitchen, just like
my folk stuff, my country
songs, my Latin tunes, my
ballads, and my rockers.”
jAm can dish it all out,
and if you donʼt like the
full course musical meal,
there is probably something wrong with you.
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Electronic Darts
MAY 2010
FRIDAYS 7:30-11:30 p.m.
Live Music
On Weekends
Never A Cover
Hill Country Fun
Well Worth
The Short Run
Hwy 46
SATURDAYS 8:00-12:30 p.m.
1......................................... Loose Change
8.................................. Emmerson Biggins
15.................................. Lone Star Pickerz
22...................................... Good Ole Boys
29................................. Kathy Bauer Band
WED 12th........................Kory Manuel Trio
Texas Hold’em Tournaments
Mondays, Tuesdays, 6 & 9 p.m.,
Free Texas Hold-em tournaments
Thursdays, Free C&W Dance Lessons
281 N.
7..................................T. Kaye & Sweetfire
14................... Slim Roberts & TX Weather
21..........................................2-Way Street
28..................Bobby Jordan & Ridgecreek
X
2 mi
14 miles
Bring in this ad for
$1 off any burger or
sandwich limit 6.
TEXAS
46
1604
Hours:
BAR HOURS:
Sun. - Fri. 11am- Midnight
Sat. 11am - 1am
KITCHEN OPEN
Mondays thru Thursdays
11 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Fridays and Saturdays
11 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Sundays • 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Action Magazine, May 2010 • 15 •