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• 2 • Action Magazine, November 2012 F Brigrht,e fressh, anhd su btsly provocantive ghsome . from Nico l eWhetn Ltudewig isnG’t beaoting tohe prd int are good words to describe the folk Among her many influences is former drums for Nicolette, she is often working music of Nicolette Good. San Antonio singing and songwriting star with her client on various San Antonio We caught her solo act last summer Terri Hendrix, a motivating force who stages where Good plays keys and fur - at a Bergheim area house concert, and Good has gone to for advice on several nishes some backup vocals with the Action’s best spies report her recent ap - occasions. Melissa Ludwig Band. pearances at Joe Blues in San Antonio, “When I work with a band I some - Before the full-length Monarch cd, Uncle Calvin’s Coffee House in Dallas, times do cover songs,” Nicolette said. Nicolette self-produced a 5-tune mini and the Saxon Pub in Austin. “But not Terri’s. Her work is much too record that got it all started. Pretty Nicolette is a slick songwriter distinctive for me to even try it.” She was picked to perform as a re - and a soulful vocalist who comes across When Nicolette works solos she does gional New Folk Ballad Tree performer at as exhilarating as a breath of high coun - almost exclusive original tunes, often the Kerrville Folklife Festival, and was a try air. with the backing of electric guitar ace semifinalist during the 2011 Songwriter Her newly-released compact disc Jesse Basham, who she found on Serenade competition in Hallettsville. Monarch is probably a sampling of much Craigslist. She has shared bills with Bettysoo, bigger things to come, since Miss Good Attesting to Miss Good’s attention- Carrie Elkin, Lincoln Durham, Doug Burr, has already made her mark in these grabbing persona is the fact that she has and Seryn. parts, winning the 2012 Grassy Hill Ker - her very own publicist at this early stage The documentary reality television rville New of her singing and songwriting career. show Troubador, Tx., spotted Nicolette Folk competition. Meet Melissa Ludwig, publicist, leader Good Songs like Hurricane Caroline and of the Melissa Ludwig Band, and a pro - in 2011 and made her a cast member of Son of My Sister are cuts from the fessional writer who also toils for the San the 22-episode series. She played the Monarch 10-track cd which define Nico - Antonio Express and News. show’s premiere performance at the lette Good as both a thinker and a story - Of Nicolette, Ludwig writes: “With in - Kessler Theater in Dallas, and has given teller. fluences as diverse as Neko Case, audiences a taste of what it’s like to be Her music? Joni Mitchell, Gillian Welch, an independent musician, according to “I call it Americana meets indie-folk,” and the Felice Brothers, her music is at her friend and publicist, Melissa Ludwig. Nicolette said. “I really just hope that it is once rich and haunting. She was a win - Ludwig says: “She plays at the inter - received as honest and appealing.” ner of the 2012 Wildflower Performing section of Americana and indie-folk, A native of Houston who recently Songwriter Contest. As a singer, she has which has led fans to describe her sound graduated from Trinity University in San been called exacting, adventurous, and as melancholy, but hip, and unique when Antonio, Nicolette now calls San Antonio as strong as radishes.” compared to other female Texas artists.” Nicolette Good
• DEPARTMENTS • Sam Kindrick...... 5 Editor & Publisher...... Sam Kindrick Everybody’s Somebody...... 9 Sales...... Action Staff Photography...... Action Staff Scatter Shots...... 10 Distribution...... Ronnie Reed Composition...... Dan Cardenas Volume 39 • Number 11
• FEATURES • Nicollette Good...... 3
Sylvia Kirk...... 6
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• 4 • Action Magazine, November 2012 Dr. Roy D. Kindrick is a highly respected oral and maxillofacial surgeon in “It’s where he and Fred (his late older brother Fred Kindrick) started life,” Denton. Roy recalled in a letter, going on to say that he and Pat decided to have one last He is also an assistant clinical professor in the department of oral and max - look at our grandmother’s property. illofacial surgery at Baylor College of Dentistry. “Much to our surprise,” Roy said, “there was a crew loading the last few Dr. Kindrick and I are first cousins, and Roy is a beloved friend who shares boards from the barn on to trailers. It had already been demolished. I introduced my - both fond and excruciatingly painful memories with me. self to the foreman and asked if I might have one of the old boards for a keepsake. Our fathers were brothers. His father’s name was Bennett, my father’s name He handed me a handful of shingles, and said, ‘These are great to paint pictures was Grady. on.’ I asked if he had seen a ridge row decoration with stars cut in it on top of the tin We passed those first names on to our sons. roof. He said, ‘Yes, but it was torn up and in bad shape. I kept some pieces and My son Grady left this earth almost 20 years ago. Roy’s boy Ben has been planned to put them together for a keepsake to give to the owner of the barn.’ gone less than half that time. “About this time the owner showed. He had only been in Junction for a short We can never understand time and was all ears to hear about the past history of his new property.” Then the foreman brought Roy the ridge row pieces, one of which he mailed Roy and I will never know why. Self-inflicted gunshots by young men with to me. entire lives before them can not be understood by mortal men like me and the max - ‘None of us got sick’ illofacial surgeon who teaches at Baylor. As only a parent who has lost a child in this manner can attest, the degree “As I was walking back to my car,” Roy said, “memories started to fly through of angst and soul agony cannot be described. But this column isn’t intended for yes - my head. The only one I will mention here is my first cigarette. You, Fred (his late terday’s painful reflections and the perpetuation of family sorrow. I mention the older brother), and I were in the dugout/hideout behind Nanny’s (grandmother Kin - deaths of our sons simply to highlight the love and powerful bond that exists between drick) house. We had taken money Mom gave us for sodapop, walked up to Main myself and doctor Roy Kindrick. Street. and purchased Bugler and papers. You had a cigarette rolling machine. I re - This colum is about a tin roof decoration that Roy fetched from our grand - member it was orange. None of us got sick. The most important part for me was that mother’s demolished barn in Junction. It’s also about some happy memories from I actually got to be one of the bunch.” that little town on the upper South Llano River where we enjoyed our childhoods. Roy went on to say: “This was the start of a long history of tobacco use for And it’s about an oral surgeon and university professor from Junction who smoked me. I smoked, chewed, and dipped about everything that was made. Can you imag - cigarettes, chewed Beechnut, Brown Mule, and Red Tag Tinsley’s chewing tobacco, ine an oral and maxillofacial surgeon that used tobacco before and after work, and and dipped Copenhagen snuff throughout most of his life, flabbergasting and flum - looked forward to E.R. calls because it meant he could have a dip of snuff on the moxing both family members and cohorts in the medical profession where he has way home? Copenhagen was my greatest addiction. I should say it is my greatest excelled. addiction. I’ve been clean since 2010, and with God’s help will stay that way.” Dr. Roy Kindrick--if you can believe this--even wrote and published a book As of October 16, I will be alcohol and drug free for 23 years. And like cousin titled A Guide for Smokeless Tobacco Users. Roy, Copenhagen became my final addiction. I quit the snuff on Easter Sunday I furnished the first smoke morning of 1992 when I awakened to find my beard glued to my pillow case, a con - dition caused by snuff juice running from my mouth as I slept. And I hold the dubious distinction of being the wormy older cousin who Roy says he would do it all over again if he had the chance. turned Dr. Kindrick on to his very first cigarette. The doc’s greatest times We can laugh today about the nicotine insanity, for both of us have managed to dislodge the big tobacco monkey from our backs. But Roy has mixed feelings, “Some of the best times Ben and I had together were when we were dipping since the happiest days of his existence were spent dipping snuff with son Ben as Copenhagen,” he said. “We fished Alaska, Canada, the Amazon twice, hunted an - they hunted and fished together from Canada to the Amazon. telope in New Mexico, dove near Brady, and spent most of every deer season in I just received a prize in the mail from Roy. It is a framed piece of the tin Kimble or Sutton counties. God has been good to me.” ridge row decoration, complete with a star, which came from our grandmother’s barn. I have no urge to drink alcohol or snort speed. The compulsion has been Backing for the ridge row piece is made from old shingles which a demolition crew removed. But when I see a dirty old Copenhagen tin laying out in the dust or mud, I had ripped from the barn. have an almost uncontrollable urge to grab it up and lick it clean. Roy said he and wife Pat were in Junction in July. It was on one of their an - As Hank Jr., would say, maybe it’s a Kindrick family tradition we are trying nual trips to visit the graves of Roy’s parents, my uncle Bennett and aunt Eleanor to break. Kindrick.
Action Magazine, November 2012 • 5 • When Sylvia sings the whole world should sit
upB ya Sanm Kdindr ictk akes tangeso with iScylviea for almost 20 The day has finally arrived. years, told us back in 1981: Sylvia Leal Kirk has released a “Her voice has an outstanding compact disc which features one of tone. Even back when she was off- the greatest female singing voices key she sounded good. She’s one of ever heard in these parts. those rare vocalists who sounds It comes as no surprise to me that good all of the time.” Sylvia’s firtst cd is probably the finest In an age when everyone who piece of recorded music that I have can hit an open G chord on a guitar ever heard. has recorded a cd, Sylvia sort of I’ve been saying it for the 32 years backed into her 10-song recording that Sylvia’s bell-true voice has been titled On a Clear Day. ringing through the beer joints, Credit Jartse Tuominen, Finnish eateries, bistros, and private party guitar wizard, arranger and music halls of San Antonio and South producer with helping to bring this Texas: recording about. His arranging, en - Nobody can sing like Sylvia. gineering, and slick but tastefully She has been compared with subtle guitar rifts complete what I Bonnie Rait, Stevie Nicks, Linda consider a masterpiece. Ronstadt, and Emmy Lou Harris, but The vocals, as always, display an Sylvia Kirk has a sound all her own. incredible blend of pitch, tone, and Cecil Thomason, now a Dallas voice control. Sylvia Kirk musician who worked San Antonio Sylvia has always been shy as a
• 6 • Action Magazine, November 2012 Joe Kirk Matthew Kirk baby cottontail, and nothing has changed in Hands, a tribute to her father. Dunn is now a friend. Also Bob Charles (aka guitar whiz that category. She is shy, sentimental, emo - visual artist with studios in Salado, Texas. Bobby Hargarther), Tom Devine, Lynnie tional, and as humble and unassuming as a fe - Georgianne (Gogi) Gale became a success - Isaacks, bassist Jon Blondell, John David Mar - male version of Saint Francis, but none of this ful graphics designer in the Roger Christian ad - tinez, the late Jerry Waddell and many more. detracts from the powerful pipes that caught vertising firm where she works today. Her “I did record a Christmas single with Tom the Finn ‘s ear. father, G.G. Gale, is the land developer who Devine,” Sylvia said. “And there was the single “Jartse was helping me get ready to play a first introduced prospective land buyers to Tim - duet with Phil Bepko.” wedding with Rick Cavander,” Sylvia recalls. berwood Park out off Blanco Road. The song, recorded in 1977 shortly after her “We had this one particular song we liked, and Immediately after graduation from high graduation from high school, was titled Lovers Jartse laid down a verbal track on his computer school, Sylvia formed a singing duo with blues Forever, and although Sylvia was a non-paid so I could practice doing it on guitar. One thing specialist Rusty Martin, and the two of them participant in the project, her startlingly clear led to another, and Jartse suggested I do the worked together for a time. and angelic voice propelled the single into a re - cd.” Then she joined Cecil Thomason, and they gional hit. It took them three years to craft the cd, which played the old Maggie’s Restaurant on San That’s when a lot of us felt that Sylvia Leal features American classics Moon River, On a Pedro for 18 years. After her stint with Cecil, might be headed for a Nashville country music Clear Day, and Somewhere Over the Rainbow , she sang for another seven years with Scott recording career. plus a Sylvia spiritual original titled Ready. Byers, leader of the old Black Rose Band. George Chambers was pulling strings for “I guess it was time,” Sylvia said, bolstered But pretty little Sylvia Leal’s star really Sylvia within the industry, and the late Pat Tall - perhaps by the rousing reception the record re - started to shine back when she first met Patsy man of KBUC Radio was touting Sylvia as a fu - ceived when introduced at a Gruene Hall Sep - Coleman and Bubba Brown, now a husband- ture hit record star. I was also hammering the tember show. “Now I am seriously thinking wife team with the same name of Brown. print drums for Miss Leal, but Music City about doing a straight country album and a Kirk “Rusty Martin and I started playing together was not in the deck for Sylvia at that time. family album with my four kids, and I would in high school,” Sylvia recalls. “I graduated in She hooked up with Cecil Thomason, mar - dearly love to record with Augie Meyers. And I 1976, and Rusty was a year behind me. We ried Bob Kirk, her biggest non-musician fan, have forever had a secret desire to sing with started our first professional job together at and proceeded to raise a family which sur - Johnny Rodriguez.” Freddie LaHood’s Poorboy Pantry on San rounds her today. All of which sounds very un-Sylvia-like, but Pedro. And it was LaHood who first took me “I was just out of high school when I did the Finnish guitarist and producer Jartse out to the Town Crier Club on Wurzbach record with Phil Bepko,” Sylvia said. “I know Tuominen and his Finnish music team of exec - Road.” that Pat Tallman and George Chambers and utive producer Simppa Rissanen and layout In a 2004 article, I noted that Sylvia was so some others were trying to promote me, but my artist Sari Vartiamaki may have kindled a cre - shy in those old days that she hardly ever parents weren’t too keen continued on page 13 ative fire of boldness in our hitherto shy cotton - talked. But she had no trouble tail. Jartse plays his own unique brand of singing, and the first profes - Finnish guitar on the cd which also includes sional songstress to recognize tunes titled At Last, People Get Ready, Falling her talent was Patsy Coleman, Star, Ain’t No Sunshine, The Water is Wide, who was working in those and Fragile. days with husband-to-be Tuominen spends nine months of the year Bubba Brown in a band they in his native Finland, the other three in San An - called Beaver Creek. tonio where he works and lives in quarters he “Patsy was my greatest in - rents from Virginia Garibay, widow of the late fluence,” Sylvia said. “It was blues hoss Randy Garibay. through Patsy that everything “We did the Gruene Hall gig when we got the good started happening for records in,” Sylvia said, “but we still haven’t de - me. I met them all at that old cided where to hold an official record release Town Crier Club --Bobby Jenk - party. That should be coming up in the near fu - ins, Johnny Santos, Claude ture.” Morgan and George Cham - When she holds it, one may be sure that the bers. It was my real introduc - entire Kirk musical family will be on hand, in - tion to the South Texas music cluding daughter Katie and sons Matthew, world. I have since worked Jake, and Bobby. with Bud Luecke and the Bobby and Matt both sing and play rhythm Morning group, Alan Chap - and lead guitar respectively, while twins Katie man; Benny Berry, one of the and Jake deliver backup vocals and bass licks finest singers on the planet; in that order. steel player Randy Reinhardt, It all started for Sylvia when she was in a and MIke Kennedy, George Jefferson High School talent group called Ta - Strait’s drummer.” lacades. Her singing partners in that outfit were Sylvia sang with Larry Gatlin none other than Holly Dunn and Georgianne at the Don Strange Ranch, Gale. and she has worked with J.T. Dunn went on to a Nashville recording ca - Thomas, Monte Montgomery, reer which included the top-10 hit Daddy’s and Tracy Wenzel, her best Sylvia with her kids. They are Mathew, next to his mother, and (left to right) Jake, Joe, and Katie. Action Magazine, November 2012 • 7 • 8 • Action Magazine, November 2012 Action Magazine, November 2012 • 9 Lisa’s Woes quired multiple rounds time friend and em - drive. the range to retrieve singer/songwriter and a It wasn’t enough that of surgery and more ployer Marilyn Ander - She was rushed to balls, obviously believ - former music columnist popular night club man - pain than anyone son. BAMC where the initial ing that she was not in for the San Antonio “It’s pretty bad,” Mar - surgeries were per - danger of being hit. ager Lisa Olsztyn damn should have to endure. Light, sent this email ilyn said. “She’s already formed. Ms. Olsztyn was a Now Lisa is strug - out to friends and fans near lost her life to fa - had one surgery to reat - Unfortunately, Ms. bartender at Fiascos, a gling through repeated cial cancer which re - tach her retina and iris, Olsztyn is without med - club jointly owned by last month; rounds of maxillofacial “and two more surger - ical insurance, accord - Anderson and Bill Bate - Last Monday I was and eye surgery after ies will be necessary-- ing to golf club and bar man, prior to assuming diagnosed with Stage her cheek bone and one to fit her with a new owner Marilyn Ander - managership of Rolling IV melanoma (malig - eye socket were shat - lens, and the other to son. Oaks. And many recall nant cancer). Today I tered by a line drive golf repair her shattered “Lisa is our special the days when Olsztyn had a PET (full body) ball. cheek bones.” person,” Anderson said. owned and operated scan. 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• 10 • Action Magazine, November 2012 humble friend among Light back during the power he referred to as a record aptly titled Adeline recorded her cd friends in a profession day, Ron Young was a “The Big J.” Night Life. at Sugar Hill Studios in fraught with inflated respected critic and a Ron Young won’t San Antonians from Houston, the proving egos. feature writer with a flair have to face this alone. years gone by recall ground where the late The frightening diag - for the written word. He has legions of Cuesta, the former Ade - Doug Sahm launched nosis comes close be - When asked if he friends who will be there line Salas, singing first his storied recording ca - hind Young’s release of ever contemplated a re - for him, offering support at Phil Sfair’s old Navy a fine album titled turn to newspaper writ - and praying for his re - Club, and in later years Under the Texas Radar. ing, Young covery. at Stefania Bal - Young spent 14 deadpanned: “What Adeline’s CD daserelli’s Doloros Del Ron Young years as a Nashville newspapers?” Adeline Cuesta, a Rio’s on the San Anto - studio songwriter before In a personal reply to nio River Walk. He titled his email jazz favorite from San returning to his home of an email reply from us, Now living in Rock - The Big C. Antonio’s club scene of San Antonio. Young indicated a will to Young is not only a the 1960s and 1970s, port where she per - As a music columnist fight the disease and a talented writer and per - has realized a lifelong forms regularly at the for the San Antonio profound faith in a Adeline Cuesta former, he is also a dream with her first cd, Key Allegro Yacht Club, cont. pg 14
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Action Magazine, November 2012 • 13 continues from pg 11 reer. missed an opportunity day, Peggy Lee, and by a skycap and he in - to achieve the dream of Martin and the Infidels. Cuesta said she to tour with the leader Nancy Wilson. More re - vited me to join him,” my youth--to record. There will be a raffle, worked with Sahm at of the famed Sir Dou - cently I have loved lis - Adeline recalled. “I re - What matters most is new Ashlee Rose T- the Cadillac Club on glas Quintet. tening to the vocals and call him yelling, ‘Come that the time has finally shirts, and lots of give - San Antonio’s River - Adeline said, “Grow - piano playing of Shirley on, Adeline, let’s go, arrived.” aways at the record walk in the 1960s, and ing up I listened and ad - Horn, Diana Krall, and baby.’ I looked down at Ashlee Rose release party. because she was a mired Dinah Brazilian songstress El - my 6-month-old baby Ashlee Rose plans The End new mother at the time, Washington, Billie Holi - lane Elias.” and declined his offer, to introduce her new Zeb Poopee, our on- Ms. Cuesta has wondering then what I cd, Songs in a Suit - again-off-again Hill worked Vegas and in might be missing. I Country corespondent, Mississippi, but most of chose my daughter, never had much luck her singing career cen - and I know that was holding on to a wife. tered around San Anto - right.” And little wonder nio. Now widowed after when one considers the Wistfully, she recalls 35 years of happy mar - following blurb of anti- running into Doug riage to Bill Cuesta, female acidity that Sahm at Los Angeles Adeline said she wed a came wafting through International Airport good man who helped on one of his recent back during the late her raise her daughter, emails: Ashlee Rose 1960s just after break - and that she has few Osama Bin Laden ing up with her hus - regrets. case, with a big blow was living with three band and as she Inviting everyone to out November 17 at wives in one compound prepared to bring her drop in for spirits, the Cove. and never left the baby daughter back to seafood, and live jazz Katherine Dawn will house for five years. San Antonio. at the Key Allegro Yacht open the festivities, and It is now believed he “Doug was being Club, Adeline says, “It Ashlee Rose will be called the Navy Seals chauffeured to his gate has taken many years working with Michael himself. 4922 Rigsby 648-9242 9 a.m. til 6 p.m. HAPPY Tuesday thru Friday Saturday 9 a.m. til 4 p.m. THANKSGIVING FROM THE ACTION STAFF
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