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Action Magazine, November 2014 • 3 • Amber Digby’s classic roots keep the country in her music of today

By Sam Kindrick validates her new genera - What transpired was a We photographed tion standing as a true female singing perform - Amber Digby last winter at classic country music ance which was the epit - Kendalia Hall. queen. ome of what I consider Our interview with “I was raised around real country music. Digby came last month by great stars like Loretta It’s a haunting, bell-true phone as she traveled to Lynn,” Amber said. “I honky-tonk sound that be - Nashville for an appear - learned watching the best speaks of Loretta’s femi - ance on the Grand Ole of the best, but in the very nist activism and Tammy’s Opry. end it was a matter of me Stand by Your Man tenac - “We have played the paying my dues just like ity. Opry before,” said Digby, every other successful Amber looked from the “but the thrill never wears performer in the business outset like she was born to thin. I literally grew up in must do.” work in a Texas dance the shadow of Ryman Au - Those dues, Amber hall. ditorium.” said, include everything Maybe she was. Amber Digby Lindley is from changing clothes in a The Kendalia Hall ap - married to her rhythm gui - rolling van to putting on pearance last winter was tar player and road man - makeup in a dirty bath - part of a series of benefits ager Randy Lindley. He is room. staged by the Texas also leader of their band “I know that I have had Dance Hall Preservation Midnight Flyer. the advantage of associat - Society, a non-profit outfit Her pedigree in the ing with some of the big dedicated to maintaining country music industry names of country music,” and promoting old dance Digby said, “but I have al - halls across the state. ways had this hunger to “I don’t believe we are succeed as a singing scheduled to play songwriter. I feel almost Kendalia again this year, like I was born singing.” but there are other dance Country music queen Amber Digby Our first contact with hall shows coming up,” Let us cater the 33-year-old Digby Digby said. “I believe in Her father, Dennis Her mother, Donna, was a solo career in the 1960s your holiday came when she was still in this very strongly. Texas is Digby, was a bassist for backup singer for Connie and also worked for Char - her teens and traveling the only state that has au - Cal Smith and Loretta Smith who later went to lie Louvin, and the party or bring with her uncle Darrell Mc - thentic dance halls, and I Lynn, and Amber was a work for Ronnie Milsap youngest McCall, Amber’s your party to Call, who was playing a believe we need to hang frequent passenger on the Enterprises. Darrell Mc - uncle Dennis, played bass Texas Pride. show at Texas Pride Bar - on to them.” very bus used in the Call is Donna’s older for Barbara Mandrell in the becue near Atkins. Digby came by her tal - movie Coal Miner’s brother. Digby’s aunt 1970s. 210-649-3730 Taking a brief break ent naturally, and an Daughter. Diane McCall had her own Continued on pg. 7 www.texaspridebbq.net from the Texas Pride Amber Digby article would stage, Darrell put his niece be incomplete without a up with the band and said, rundown on the geneal - “Just listen to this.” ogy. BEXAR BALiceInLse #145 102 S. BCOMOAL N#2, SDATXS 78207

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Action Magazine, November 2014 • 5 • I call this Mac computer I work on the Devil Box. congruity of unexplainable magnitude, and a precarious I hate computers. I also hate snitches, dog perch for one of surly and bad-tempered persuasion. A Devil Box tantrum As the torrent of new “friends” continued, I catchers, colonoscopys, and rural bicycle riders in Manu Ginobili, my favorite Spur, said social Spandex pantaloons who think they own the rural road - media gadflies need to be reserved and cautious about pitched one of my famed Devil Box tantrums, an exple - ways. their postings for all the world to see. tive-laced exercise in wasted energy and doomsday I also hate passwords. Stupid damn passwords “Show it to someone else before you put it up over-reaction that Harry Thomas, my webmaster, has that change on what seems like a daily basis. there,” Manu said. long been accustomed to. Type in your user name I must now confess that I have had a deacti - Elise Taquino, my relatively new production Type in your password vated Facebook page for several years now, and my re - manager and talented graphic artist, has proven to be Bulletin: cent return to this cyber space insanity was really an as resilient and completely detached from my personal Your user name or your password is incorrect accident. shit storms as Thomas. She got my number early on. No shit, Sherlock.What else is new? My first Facebook experience lasted all of two “Just cool it,” she said. “Everything is going to And this is just a tip of the pique. days. When I joined the first time, I was unaware that be okay.” the Facebook emails could be channeled into a sepa - It’s like Elise has known me for years. And her Jerry and the Muslims rate folder, and I was aghast when a torrent of Facebook admonitions were prophetic. We have sailed through Throw in Ebola, Jerry Jones, the Muslims, land “friend” requests started glutting my computer main raping backhoes, and Rick Perry...That should be good inbox. her first three issues of Action Magazine like a hot knife for openers as we chronicle my disgust with the 21st Hello, Country Bumpkin, how’s the frost out on slicing through butter, and the magazine has never been Century. the pumpkin... as clean and error-free as it is today. Mahatma Gandhi said hate the sin but love the With no attempt to get information about Face - Facebook, though, is something else. My sinner. book, etc., I pulled the plug and withdrew from the mad - “friends” list has surpassed 900 in only two months, and Does this mean that we can really and truly love ness, capping off my actions with a column item as I continue affirming new requests, I realize that a the Cowboys while hating Jerry Jones at the same assuring one and all that I had all the “friends” I could bunch of those people are real people, many of them time? I truly hope so. handle, and that no more should even think of applying musicians, who I have actually counted as friends Some literary cipher at Current Magazine once for my buddy list. throughout the years. referred to me as a curmudgeon. I first thought it just My reappearance on Facebook came late one meant a backwards old turd, but after investigating the night when I decided to check on a musician I knew to Friends ad infinitum word in the Random House Dictionary of the English be involved in the social media program. They are there before my eyes, and we are still Language, I find curmudgeon defined as a bad-tem - I know now that I pushed the wrong button, for counting: Ponty Bone, Terri Hendrix, Dusty Britches, pered or surly person. a notice quickly sprang to life on my computer screen Geronimo Trevino, Hector Saldana, Marius Perron, Bon - I never thought of myself as a curmudgeon, but which said something like, “Congratulations, Sam, and nie Lang, Dub Robinson, Jimmy Spacek, Shelly King, after taking a recent moral and amoral inventory, I find welcome back to Facebook. A lot of wonderful things Amber Digby, T. Gosney Thornton, Wayne Harper, Jim the designation to be both fitting and uplifting in a weird have been happening here at Facebook since your sort of way. leave of absence.” Beal, John Oaks, Bailey Anderson, Will Owen Gage, My friend Augie Meyers says, “Don’t take any Then, within a matter of hours, my mail inbox Susie Bravo, Maurice Munter, Sauce Gonzalez, Bobby shit off anybody!” was again overflowing with “friend” requests from hun - Baker, Wayne Christian, Benny Harp, and ad infinitum. And I believe this credo could be adopted as dreds of people I had never heard of. It’s challenging, intriguing, and addictive, a gi - the curmudgeon battle cry. My 5-foot wife Sharon encouraged it all. She gantic exercise in foolishness which I find weird and al - All of which brings us to the main subject at said Facebook might improve both my business and my most irresistible. hand, a transgression on my part which no true cur - curmudgeon image. Just the other night, I got a Facebook flash from mudgeon could ever embrace. I didn’t realize at the time that Facebook emails an old tittie bar dancer I hadn’t thought of in years. I have joined Facebook could all be channeled into a Facebook folder which I It’s like Ginobili said. You have got to be careful could check sporadically or never at all if that be my per - what you post on Facebook. I have joined Facebook. Shhheeeyat. The cur - suasion. mudgeon in the very bowels of social media. It’s an in -

• 6 • Action Magazine, November 2014 Amber Digby continued... Digby grew up in shadow of Grand Ole Opry

Amber’s parents di - Music From The Honky And it was shortly after rial and obscure covers cert stage, I do mostly my ter right away,” Digby said. vorced, and when she Tonks; Here Come The this project was complete that nobody else was own material,” Digby says. “The more we played the was 9, her mother remar - Teardrops; Passion, Pride, that she quit her day job in doing. “If we are doing a longer better we got. Everything- ried to steel guitar legend And What Might Have Oklahoma and moved to “I don’t do Patsy Cline,” show at a dance hall or -gigs, album sales, song - Dicky Overby, who died Been; and Another Way To the Houston area. Digby said. “Why would I similar venue, I may do a writing, my ability to talk to recently. Live. By 2007, Amber and do Patsy Cline when every few standards.” the people at the shows, Overby was in Milsap’s Up to this stage of her new husband Randy Lind - other girl singer in the With more miles behind everything was picking band at the time and had career, Amber has ley had formed their Mid - country was doing Patsy? her, and with a real career up.” played with Faron Young, recorded on Tracy Pit - night Flyer Band, and their I pick out some really vision beginning to take Amber said her stepfa - Johnny Bush, Sammi cock’s Heart of Texas label course was beginning to good but obscure covers, shape, Amber Digby said ther always encouraged Smith, Connie Smith and in Brady, Texas with a lot take real form. and my husband Randy everything started getting her input in a recording Hank Williams Jr. of support and production “I grew up watching my helps me find some of better when Randy Lind - session, and it was this The steel guitar whiz help from blind music phe - parents at work on the them. ley put their band to - encouragement that pro - formed a bond with his nom Justin Trevino. Grand Ole Opry, and the “If I’m playing a festival gether. stepdaughter which was Her first cd, Music sets of Hee Haw and or have a part on a con - “We started getting bet - Continued on pg. 14 both family and profes - From The Honky Tonks, Nashville Now,” Digby re - sional. was recorded in 2002 with calls. “My mom and my “He was wonderful,” Trevino both producing dad and my stepdad all Amber said. “He played on and playing on the album, encouraged me to find my all of my records.” along with Overby and path and to be creative-- Those cds include Bobby Flores of Bulverde not necessarily to sing.” on fiddle. She graduated from Flores and Trevino later high school in Missouri, accompanied Digby on a worked some in Okla - record promoting tour to homa, and eventually Sweden as her fame started visiting her mother began to spread across and stepfather at their “The Great Texas Experience” Europe. home in the Texas Hill Catering “That was the first of Country. Party Room Rental many trips overseas,” “I started sitting in with Pavilion Rental Digby said last month. “My Jake Hooker and Justin Fundraiser records are doing very Trevino, and before long I Hosting well in Europe, and we will had recorded my first Oilfield Crew Catering be leaving soon for a tour album,” 210-263-3805 of Norway.” Digby recalled. www.texaspridebbq.net In 2006, Digby again From the start, Amber hooked up with Justin had both drive and focus. Trevino to record Here She would not do many Come The Teardrops for standards, concentrating Heart of Texas Records. instead on her own mate -

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• 10 • Action Magazine, November 2014 Texas 46 closing pus Christi, and Rockport, management. Back in the Kim Magar of The Country Club, and the For more than three and he owned Texas Ex’s 1990s, I was running more Shade Tree in Spring Plaza Club. decades, Gary Stebbins and Fifth Avenue clubs in than $750,000 a year.” Branch said of Gary Steb - A onetime San Antonio was a driving force in the San Antonio outright, plus Stebbins was quick to bins; Police Department patrol - creation and management partnerships in Buster’ share his success at “When we opened up man, Trumble currently of some of the biggest and and Papa Woody’s, be - Texas 46 with his former some 10 years ago, Gary owns a car mechanic most successful live coun - fore moving to the Spring wife and business partner came out, introduced him - garage on Nacogdoches try music nightclubs in Branch and Bulverde area Kathie. self, and offered to help us Road known as Nacog - San Antonio and South in 1990 to open his Texas “She has always kept get our business going in doches Car Care. Texas. 46 Restaurant and Sa - the place going at top effi - any way he could. And he Valdez and Trumble loon, a once-booming ciency,” Gary said. “We was true to his word. He have purchased the entire roadhouse at Texas High - could never even begin to has been a real neighbor Paul Valdez five-acre property on way 46 and Sun Valley describe what an incredi - and a real friend, and we Blanco Road which was Drive. ble friend and business all hate to see him go. But Over the years, Valdez once owned by John and Now it’s over for Steb - partner she has been.” I am beginning to feel the has served as the head Lucy Avila. It includes the bins, a tired nightclub and Stebbins maintains his wear and tear, and I un - chef for such distin - restaurant and saloon restaurant industry warrior home on the 2 1/4-acre derstand what it means to guished wining and dining building and two houses who was closing his Texas property, with the club oc - be tired. Gary Stebbins establishments as Son - which are now being ren - terra Country Club, Petro - 46 down on November 2. cupying one of the acres. deserves every good thing Continued on pg. 14 “It’s been a great ride,” He would like to sell the life has to give him.” leum Club, Northern Hills Stebbins mused, “almost club and the property it The Rusty Spur 40 years or maybe a few sits upon, along with all of The big buzz around Gary Stebbins more than that, but now the Texas 46 kitchen Bulverde these days is the I’m tired and I’m putting equipment and western impending opening of a the place up for sale.” memorabilia which now new indoor/outdoor live Stebbins is pointing no festoons the club walls. music venue and barbe - fingers, but there have “I’ve got old beer signs, cue restaurant to be been a variety of reasons antique guns, branding known as The Rusty Spur. for the shutdown. Gary’s irons, harnesses, and a Located on Blanco health has long been an really valuable collection Road at the old J&L loca - issue, the Antlers Restau - of Spurs items,” Stebbins tion just north of Cibolo rant moving next door did - said. “I guess I’m ready to Creek, the restaurant and n’t help the Texas 46 food let it all go for the right roadhouse saloon is jointly business, and old patrons price. I just hope I can owned by master chef of the roadhouse will tell hang on to my little house Paul Valdez and San An - THANK YOU FOR A Kathy Stebbins you privately that Bulverde and the acre it sits on.” tonio entrepreneur James police dogging the Texas Before Gary opened Trumble. GREAT SEASON! Stebbins opened such 46 parking lot never did Texas 46, we recall him drinking and dancing hip - anything but hurt the busi - selling barbecue brisket MUSIC WILL START BACK podromes in San Antonio ness. and sausage on the road - as the still-booming Mid - “I have few regrets, and side where Texas 46 now IN THE SPRING night Rodeo on Nacog - I’m not putting the blame fronts. doches Road in 1978, Jus’ on anyone,” Stebbins said. He has been a good HAPPY HOLIDAYS SEE Country on Walzem Road, “I guess I just sort of ran friend and an Action ad - Dallas Night Club at Fred - out of gas, and a lot of the vertiser for more than 20 YOU SOON!! ericksburg and Wurzbach, people just stopped com - years. and the old Cold River ing. But I do know what And we can never thank Cattle Company. He also this place is capable of him enough for the sup - opened and built Dallas doing with responsible port he has given both us Night Clubs in Austin, Cor - ownership and live wire and his neighbors. 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great work..... number of musician the clip you sent are (from San Antonio area? I visit well, and I don’t know Kathy Knudtson friends will be on hand to top to bottom) Johnny Ro - the US each year and what happened to the for - Hey Sam, play. The medical ex - driguez, Johnny Bush, would love to see him mer KENS 5 TV news - After a week at Univer - penses have been astro - and Joe (King) Carrasco. again to say hello. man. If anybody knows, sity hospital, I am back at nomical, and Young Hello, Sam, Thank you, send me an email and I home recuperating from appreciates all the help he I am sure that you do Connie Wright will relay the message to adrenal gland removal can get. not remember me for I Editor’s Note: Connie in Scotland. surgery. The docs say they We will have more on only hung around with I knew Ron Taylor as feel they got out all the the upcoming benefit next Ron Houston for a short melanoma. I have a 12", month. while. Ron and I met 52-metal staple incision Hey, Sam: when he was working at scar to prove it! It will be I have been an avid the radio station temporar - weeks before I can per - reader of Action Magazine ily housed in the Menger form in public again. for a few years now. Hotel if I remember cor - However, my band the There have been three rectly - somewhere down - Ron Young-Scott Gale indivuals who have made town anyway. Band is carrying out the the centerfold of the mag - He would sometimes dates I can't attend. The azine numerous times. come to my office at the Dear Editor: show must go on! Good Not being able to recog - Democratic Headquarters. Thanksgiving Turkeys, I would like to say I en - friends such as Johnny nize these men has really Your article on him was re - joyed the article on Ron Gross (who used to play gotten the best of me. It ally wonderful for you cap - peach and pecan Knuth. It is the best and fiddle and steel with Darryl would greatly ease my cu - tured his spirit and that cobblers. Company most accurate news I McCall and Barbara riosity if you would name marvelous voice of his. I have read about him. He Fairchild, among others); these individuals. would watch him some catering on site or at is a great fiddle player and and/or guitarist Patrick Thanking you in ad - mornings as he would go all around entertainer. His Joseph (founding member vance for your cooperation through his own records Texas Pride Party Pavil - friends and family from of the Krayolas, and cur - in helping me solve this and sort of prepare an ion. The most unique Wisconsin were able to rently with Glass Heart) mystery. outline of the show he find out what he has been sits in for me. Jacqueline Smith would do that day. He in - food and doing since he left Wis - While recovering from Schertz troduced me to a range of consin...He has accom - this painful and difficult Editor’s Note: music and was a great entertainment plished so much doing surgery I am planning an - Sure thing, Jacqueline. teacher about music and venue in Texas. what he enjoys the most. other benefit and working The clip you mailed is life. Through him I Playing music and enter - on getting well. God is from an Action Magazine also met some really won - taining.....Thanks again for great. house ad called Put Your derful and ever so inter - 210-649-3730 the great article about Stay healthy my friend, Money Where the Music esting people, including www.texaspridebbq.net Ron. LOVED IT..... Ron Young Is. It includes a collage of Ron Taylor, and since I live I have been reading Editor’s Note: musicians who will attest now in Scotland I have lost some of your other arti - There will be a second to the viability of advertis - track of old friends. cles. You really are a mar - benefit for Ron Young in ing in the magazine. Do you happen to know if velous writer. Keep up the February, and a goodly The three pictured in Ron Taylor still lives in the

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Action Magazine, November 2014 • 13 • Amber Digby Continued from page 7 my gosh, I love your stuff. mired everything about music business for a long music, Digby said; “Mi - pelled her into a joint pro - it is being done in I hear you all the time on her--the whole package. time.” randa Lambert does more duction role with her hus - Nashville, and the other satellite radio.’ I couldn’t Her grit, determination, On her website Digby of a redneck brand of band and Justin Trevino part in Texas. believe it, it was almost writing ability, voice and said, “I'm happy to an - country, while I try to keep for her third cd-- Passion, All of the songs on the surreal. We became attitude. and her not really nounce that Amber Digby it classic in style. And Car - Pride, and What Might recording will be Osborne friends and started song - caring what people think & Midnight Flyer was se - rie Underwood isn’t coun - Have Been. Brothers songs.” writing together.” of her. Call her a feminist if lected to be part of Texas try at all. She is more pop The same three went Asked if this album will She has since you will, but Loretta Lynn Commission on the Arts than country.” on to produce yet another be recorded on the Heart recorded with Gill, Mark has balls. Always had ‘em (TCA) 2014-16 Texas Amber and husband Digby album, Another Way of Texas label, Digby said, Chesnutt, and numerous and will always have ‘em.” Touring Roster. This Randy live in Spring near To Live, “I don’t want to discuss others. Albums that fol - A high point in Digby’s means that support is Houston. They have five and three of Amber’s this at this time.” lowed her earlier output career came when she available to assist with our children under the roof, songs made the cut on Vince Gill said, “Amber include Keeping Up Ap - opened for Loretta Lynn at booking fees through the two from Amber’s previous this project. is a great traditional pearances (2010), Live At Winnie, Texas between Arts Respond Perform - marriage and three from Included among the origi - singer, which is very hard Swiss Alp Hall (2011), and Beaumont and Houston. ance Support grant pro - Randy’s earlier marriage. nals was After It Breaks, to find these days. And The World You’re Living In Digby recently com - gram. This quarterly They just celebrated her first Nashville co-write this is the simple truth.” (2013). She also recorded pleted a Texas mini-tour program provides support their seventh wedding an - with Dani Flowers. Amber recalls her first a duet album with Justin with Dale Watson, and to Texas schools, libraries, niversary, and if their recent Vince Gill is a big meeting with Gill. Trevino. says she intends to some - and nonprofit organiza - postings on Facebook are Amber Digby fan, and Gill “I was at the Opry, just Amber’s major influ - day play Watson’s Big T’s tions for hiring an artist indicators of wedded har - will be with Amber and hanging out and watching ences include Loretta Roadhouse at St. Hedwig. from the TCA Touring mony, the Digby-Lindleys other musicians on an Os - backstage, and Vince Gill Lynn, Tammy Wynette, “I’ve heard about the Roster to give a perform - are doing pretty good. borne Brothers tribute was there. And so at one George Jones, and Ron - chickenshit bingo,” she ance, residency, or work - She calls him the an - album which was a big point when he was greet - nie Milsap. laughed. “I opened some shop.” swer to both her prayers part of her trip to Nashville ing people, I went over “Loretta has got to be shows for Dale, and we Asked to define the dif - and her “momma’s” as last month. and said, ‘Hey, I’m Amber the major influence,” have sung together on nu - ferences between her and well, while Randy Lindley “We have had this proj - Digby. I just wanted to Amber says. “I grew up merous occasions. He’s a singers like Miranda Lam - said he married the ect in the works for a long meet you.’ And before I watching her every move, great talent and a real bert and Carrie Under - woman “who is truly my time,” Amber said. “Part of could finish, he said, ‘Oh and I have always ad - trooper. He’s been in the wood’s brand of country best friend.” Scatter Shots Continued from page 11 It is significant to note, nation. and special unveiling of were the Browns and a ovated for use by the new with help from our Bul - we suppose, that the polit - Honoré has been re - the exhibit will include live raft of their musician owners. verde welder friend and ical TV ad wheelchair did - placed by an affable pair music and refreshments friends who included “We intend to have a mechanical Einstein n’t come with a catheter of children, Katy Vossler during the afternoon of Sylvia, George Chambers, family-friendly atmos - Edgar Boeck. hanging from the frame. and Adam Caskey, both November 15. Clay Meyers, Allen Chap - phere with live music, At this writing, Trumble And on the other side capable readers and rip - Patsy and Bubba man, John Santos, Terrell good food, and an outdoor and Valdez were awaiting of the political manure pers who can wave and It was a hell of a party, O’Neil, Greg Forest from deck with stage,” said final licensing and bever - pile, Republican spin mas - gesticulate over the music fans, a nostalgic re - Kerrville, along with super Valdez. “Barbecue will be age permit approval by ters managed to dredge weather charts with the play of some great music sound men Rusty and the main dish, but we will Comal County, and they up some Wendy Davis best of them. which wafted from San Randy. have steaks and even may be open by the time - photo shop aberrations But John Honoré’s Antonio’s skull orchards Sauce and Horns dessert specials on cer - this issue of Action is dis - that would frighten small Ipana smile, mature coun - back during the halcyon Sauce Gonzalez and tain days. We will have tributed. Or shortly children and send puppies tenance, and galloping years of the 1970s and the Westside Horns will burgers, and lunch will be thereafter. yowling out the door. ego were KSAT weather - 1980s. provide the music Friday, Davis, the whole world cast staples which some served daily. The interior Cheap Shots Occasion was Patsy November 14, for an au - knows, is a strikingly of his fans came to love tumn oldies dance honor - of the club includes a main As the gubernatorial and Bubba Brown cele - beautiful blond woman and cherish, and they are ing Vietnam veterans. bar area and a dance area race draws to a conclu - brating 40 years together, who doesn’t look any - the disenfranchised view - Scheduled to run from with stage, enabling us to sions, the cheap shot 20 years of married life, where near her age of 50. ers who continue to holler: 8 p.m. until midnight at present good country and artists for both Greg Ab - and Patsy’s 70th birthday. But her political oppo - WHAT THE HELL HAS Pueblo Hall on San Anto - Texas music on a year bott and Wendy Davis There were cakes and nents are using some ex - HAPPENED TO JOHN? nio’s West Side, the event around basis. No loud rock continue to insult the intel - barbecue with all the trim - aggerated digital photo Wall for Hall is a benefit for the Frank music, though, but we will ligence of voters they mings. trickery that makes Wendy Inductees into the San Tejeda Texas Veterans have open mic days for hope to woo. The blowout was held look like the Wicked Witch Antonio Radio Hall of Home in Floresville. singers and songwriters.” Somehow or another, October 10 at Fischer of the West. Fame will be included on a Joining Sauce and the The main building’s ex - the Democrats had to Haus Cantina near One is a magnified special wall exhibit which Westside Horns will be terior has yet to be fin - pitch a wheelchair into the Canyon Lake, and there camera blowup that will be unveiled November special guests Joe Jama, ished, so passers by don’t mix, albeit with a slimeball were a number of folks makes every pore on 15 at the South Texas Sonny Ace, and Rudy T. see the extent of improve - explanation that the hand - present who recall the dy - Davis’ face look like Popular Culture Center These musicians are part ments and enlargement icap device was not to be namic duo of Patsy Cole - craters on the moon, while on Mulberry at Broadway. of San Antonio’s original until they walk through the viewed as a negative for man and Bubba Brown another shot catches her The new exhibit was Westside sound that was doors. crippled people. The chair with their Beaver Creek with an exhausted expres - announced by Liz Pa - popular in the 1950s and “We looked long and just popped up in the anti- Band which held forth in sion, zeroing in on her tranella, spokesperson for 1960s. hard at this location before Abbott TV ad. such memorable saloons chin mole as if the beauty the San Antonio Radio Tickets are $15 pre- we decided to buy,” Trum - A paraplegic who was as The Town Crier. mark was a syphilis Hall of Fame, who said, “I sale an $18 at the door. ble said. “We feel that the paralyzed when a tree fell Photos from the party canker. will be working with Pre-sale tickets can be Rusty Spur will be just on him, Abbott was tar - are in the Everybody’s Where is John Michael Ann Coker of the purchased at Pueblo Hall, what people in this area geted by Somebody picture page in Some KSAT-TV view - Center over the next few 3315 Northwestern Drive; will support.” Davis campaigners as a this issue of Action. ers are still wondering weeks preparing an in- Del Bravo Record Shop, It is more than impres - phony who turned a deaf The Browns released what happened to weath - depth display that will in - 551 Old Highway 90; and sive, as is the building’s ear in his role of attorney an album several years ercaster John Honoré, clude information on the Janie’s Record Shop, back area which includes general to handicapped ago, titled Patsy and who vanished from the Hall of Fame and its mem - 1012 Bandera Road. offices and giant meat Texans with special Bubba Brown and the Channel 12 newscasts bers.” For more information smokers which Valdez and needs. 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