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Howdy, all y’all. I’m Joe Nick Patoski and I’d like to invite you to my party on Facebook. Every Saturday nite. 6-8 central, I host the Texas Music Hour of Power on KRTS-FM in Marfa, and several other stations in Far West Texas, and onwww.marfapublicradio.org.
The show features all kinds of Texas music made over the past century of recorded music, and runs two hours because Texas spans two time zones and its music is too big to limit to one hour. Name your poison: Country and Western, Rhythm and Blues, Western Swing, Rock and Roll, Jazz, Tex=Mex, Conjunto, Tejano, Cajun, Zydeco – if it’s from Texas, and it sounds good, it’s all fair game. When the show airs, we all gather around the electronic campfire on my Facebook page to share images , comments and whatever else about the music being played.
It’s an interactive wild party – no rules, no drink limit, just good people. Drop on in, or stay all night and groove with us.
I’ve spent the past four decades writing about Texas and Texans, authoring and co-authoring books on Willie Nelson, Selena, Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Dallas Cowboys, Texas Mountains, Texas Coast, and Big Bend National Park, and sustainable land stewardship. I spent 18 years as a staff writer for Texas Monthly and have written for the Texas Observer, National Geographic, No Depression, Texas Music, the Big Bend Sentinel, and a bunch of other publications. A lot of what I’ve learned comes out in the eclectic mix of music that I play. Tune in, turn on, and come on over and join the party.
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The following article about Joe Nick Patoski’s great biography about Willie Nelson, “Willie Nelson: An Epic Life” was first published in No Depression Magazine in 2004. Visit Joe Nick’s website to read the entire article, at www.JoeNickP.com :
The following article about Joe Nick Patoski’s great biography about Willie Nelson, “Willie Nelson: An Epic Life” was first published in No Depression Magazine in 2004. Visit Joe Nick’s website to read the entire article, at www.JoeNickP.com :
Gonna Catch Tomorrow Now
No Depression
BY JOE NICK PATOSKI
September-October 2004
LUCK, Texas, isn’t as easy to find as it used to be. Development has sprawled the entire 25 miles from downtown Austin to this idyllic little spot in the Hill Country near Lake Travis where Willie Nelson created his own universe more than two decades ago. The old corner store that was once a landmark is now a bank. The entrance gate is practically lost among the McMansions and ranchettes that have sprouted up.
This fact of life is not lost on the guy in the Willie Nelson T-shirt driving the mower over the fairway of the Briarcliff Country Club. After providing directions to a wayward tourist, he wisecracks, “Welcome to Oak Hill,” referring to the suburb fifteen miles closer to the city.
Still, there’s enough acreage surrounding Luck that once you stumble onto the dirt main street, you realize Willie Nelson’s home base is safely in a zone of its own. The cowboy town of faux buildings – including a feed store, barn, gunsmith, church, and bathhouse – hasn’t changed much since it was built for the filmRed Headed Stranger in the early 1980s. Unchanged, but deteriorated to the point that Luck today looks less like an Old West movie set and more like a real 20th century small town in Texas that is drying up and blowing away. Whatever it is, it is Willie’s World. The rest of us are just visiting. (more…)