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Advertise in Action Magazine • DEPARTMENTS • Music Matters ........................................4 Editor & Publisher ................Sam Kindrick Sam Kindrick ..........................................6 Advertising Sales ....................Action Staff Photography.............................Action Staff Scatter Shots ........................................11 Distribution............................Ronnie Reed Composition..........................Elise Taquino Volume 43 • Number 3 • FEATURE • Jerry Jeff Walker ......................................7 Green Machine ......................................12 Action Magazine, March 2018 • 3 • Chesnut says ‘stop and smell the music’ I have been performing end of a good-time Satur - Blanco Road in San Anto - formers, on the other There are countless performance. In my opin - live country music full-time day night. Nothing much nio. As it turns out, those hand, are depending on other venues and perform - ion, traffic noises from or part-time since 1969. I surprises me. folks love country music. the venue to have a crowd ers in synergistic relation - congested roadways have performed on stages But, much to my sur - After my cancer diag - that will add to the per - ships throughout the city, would be a lot harder to behind chicken wire, prise few years back I nosis last summer, I was former’s income and num - but no amount of synergy deal with. So, please sup - dodged thrown beer bot - began singing periodically forced to cancel all per - ber of followers. will create and sustain port those venues that do tles, and even had patrons at Heavenly Pho, a Viet - formances for a while and Gee, I wish it were that success without the sup - offer live music, and take a destroy furniture at the namese restaurant on just returned to Heavenly simple for both parties, but port of customers. There moment to stop and smell Pho last month. It was a it isn’t. There is a com - are noble efforts being the music by acknowledg - great venue when I first bined energy in the pro - made at the state and ing the efforts of the per - started there, and, under motional efforts made by local level to help San An - formers. new ownership, it still is. both the venue and the tonio become known as a Some of us are not all The food and service are performers. Working to - music-friendly city. that secure. outstanding. gether, better things can But, the danger that ... Jim Chesnut, founding It was my good fortune happen for both parties. I presents itself in my mind president of the Texas Live to return to a packed think the word I’m looking is this: if every venue in Music Association, is a former house, but I cannot take for is synergy. town featured live music, it major label recording artist credit for that. While a I have had the pleasure would be so easy for lis - and staff songwriter with number of my followers of working synergistically teners to take each per - Acuff-Rose Music in Nashville. After 25 years away from the came, many, many more with Patrick Flores who formance for granted, music business, he began per - people came, because it owns and runs Las Chi - because it would become forming in and around San An - is a great restaurant that ladas Mexican Restaurant so common. All of the live tonio in 2008. Since then, He happens to book live for a number of years. I re - music performers I know has self-produced and re - music. spect his views, and I be - put a lot of effort into what leased four CDs. Since Janu - ary 2016, he has had five And, that’s what I want lieve he respects mine. He they do to entertain audi - consecutive Top-10 national to write about. runs a tight ship with great ences to help relieve the indie country singles, three of In today’s ubercompet - food and service, just like stresses of daily living. which reached #1 in the Top-40 itive restaurant market, Heavenly Pho. He even It is, therefore, incum - chart of IndieWorld Country many proprietors are look - had a stage with lighting bent upon the listeners to Record Report. He has been a ing to live music perform - built to accommodate live pause and think about freelance contributor to Action Magazine since the beginning ers to bring them music and comedy events what life would be like of 2016. Contact info: business. 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During his time in seminary, Harrington the Green Gate. I can distinctly remember Candy Cane, served as assistant pastor of First Baptist Church the Green Gate headliner at the time, blushing and try - of New Orleans with J.D. Grey and continued his ing to cover her tits with a T-shirt. Poor little Candy didn’t ministry as an itinerant evangelist. In a chapel serv - know whether to spit or go blind. The Reverend Bob ice, NOBTS President Leo Edleman said, "Wherever was wound tight and hitting on all cylinders. there is a pocket of sin, there is a mission field, and I was drinking heavily in those days, and I the nearest Christian to it is a missionary." Accord - told Evelyn Linton over the telephone that I ing to Harrington, "the nearest pocket of sin was wouldn’t cover the Green Gate closing event unless Bourbon Street." I could drink beer. The Lintons wanted the daily Harrington had begun a street ministry armed newspaper ink in the worst way, so a concession with a microphone and a Bible. Several months later deacons at First Baptist New Orleans loaned him was made. enough money for a few months' rent to open a chapel With much fanfare, I was allowed to drink the on Bourbon Street in the heart of the French Quarter. last alcoholic beverage ever consumed in San Antonio’s Harrington began witnessing and preaching in the bars Sam Kindrick and Rev. Bob Harrington infamous Green Gate. It was a Falstaff beer. and strip clubs of Bourbon Street. at Action Magazine’s Outdoor Revival After Bob’s sermon, the Lintons paid off their And in 1962, Mayor Victor Schiro proclaimed strippers and bar staff, and hung a sign on the Green and Music Extravaganza. him "The Chaplain of Bourbon Street." Gate’s entrance which read: Closed Forever. See you Harrington's street ministry message was bold in church. and simple. "God loves you just as you are. He knows Harrington became a well-known evangelist you are a sinner and wants to save you. Don't figure it during the 1960s and 1970s following his conver - out. Faith it out.” I am sad to report that famed evangelist Bob sion to Christianity at age 30 in his hometown of Before long his unorthodox story reached Dou - Harrington is gone. I just learned that he died of kidney Sweet Water, Ala. He was a popular guest on na - bleday Printing. "The Chaplain of Bourbon Street," writ - failure on the Fourth of July at his daughter’s home in tional television shows including Phil Donahue, ten by Harrington with Walter Wagner, was published in Stigler, Oklahoma at age 89. Merv Griffin and The Tonight Show due to his one- 1969. Harrington went on to publish seven more books This is the celebrated Chaplain of Bourbon liners and unconventional religious wit. In the and released more than 30 record albums.