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Lynn, from George Jones when Willie was breaking “I wanted to be a to Charlie Walker and out nationally with record - singing cowboy star like George Hamilton IV, to ings like Mister Record Roy Rogers,” Chambers Charlie Pride, Johnny Man, a lot of people had said. “I have been a Roy Bush to Little Jimmy Dick - the idea that they couldn’t Rogers fan since I was a ens, and ad infinitum. He dance to Willie’s music. little kid.” still works with his band, Willie would call me up The 76-year-old Cham - but most of his gigs today from Nashville to join him bers never made it to the are solo appearances, at a lot of his gigs. He silver screen, but he did many of which feature would have his regular wind up playing backup Chambers dressed in musicians with him on music for his cowboy cowboy boots, fancy west - stage, but he would also movie star hero at a camp ern shirts and bandanas, have us up there to do the ground near Medina Lake and singing such cowboy traditional dance stuff. We in 1986. classics as Tumbling Tum - did alternate shows. That “Roy was great, a bleweeds, Home on the was before the world re - prince of a guy and a real Range, and Streets of ally started recognizing gentleman,” Chambers Laredo. Nelson’s genius. He was said. “And I guess he set a “If anyone wants to the most over-looked and standard that I sort of ad - know who George Cham - under- rated musician of mired from the very start.” bers is, they can ask me that time. Johnny Bush Chambers, of course, or Willie Nelson,” says was playing drums for has lived up to his own Bush. “George has Willie during that time towering standard of ex - worked from Texas to the frame. He was starting to cellence, and with his Golden Nugget in Las break Paul English in for band George Chambers Vegas. He has been my the job.” and the Country Gentle - good friend and neighbor When he asked Nelson men, he has been the for 60 years, and I can’t recently if he could put humble and unobtrusive say enough good things Willie’s song Bloody Mary George Chambers is not only an iconic musician. He is face of the live music in - about him.” Morning on his new dustry in San Antonio and Chambers does, in - album, Chambers was re - also an accomplished sound engineer who records South Texas for more than deed, hold both the atten - warded with more than a much of his material in the studio he built in his home 40 years. tion and respect of the simple green light. Playing more than 140 music industry giants. “Willie told me I could dates a year to this very In the old days, George record anything of his that day, Chambers and his and his band worked with I wanted to,” George said, band have backed up al - Willie Nelson on many of “and then he sang a most every major country his shows. 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He attacked DA Reed’s conviction record Nico and I have one thing in common: We have a firearm when the arrest was made. for sex offenders, even accusing her of going easy both been busted on felony drug charges, and both of There is little doubt that Nico LaHood’s fa - on some of these creeps. And he was quick to re - us received huge breaks from authorities who could ther, esteemed attorney and family man Michael La - ceive $1.2 million in campaign contributions from have socked us away in prison for a long time. Hood Sr., and his family connections with law injury lawyer Thomas J. Henry, a staggering amount Maybe LaHood and I are both miracles. There enforcement and the judiciary had a lot to do with of advertising dollars which proved to be the crown - are people who believe as much. him getting deferred adjudication which resulted in ing blow for Reed. LaHood received deferred adjudication after the drug charge being erased from his record . Reed, on the other hand, hammered LaHood trying to sell dope to an undercover agent. He was By the same token, I know that I had some mercilessly over his 20-year-old drug bust, painting him also in possession of a pistol at the time of his ar - very influential and credible people in my corner when as a tattooed thug not fit to hold the office of district at - rest. then Judge Susan Reed rendered a verdict in my behalf torney. And by accepting Henry’s gigantic campaign My big break, believe it or not, came from which stunned and flabbergasted her fellow judges and contribution, Reed suggested that Democrat Nico would Susan Reed. all of the lawyers familiar with my case. sell his soul in an attempt to buy the office. And Reed Reed and I go way back to 1989. At my probation revocation hearing, Reed predictably got an endorsement from the Express and In 1989, Reed was judge of the 144th District shocked everyone by granting me yet another 10 years News, which said LaHood’s case “is not the type inci - Court in San Antonio, and I was the disgraced former of probation. dent that fits comfortably on the résumé of anyone daily newspaper columnist who was facing prison after “It was a God deal,” attorney Alan Brown said. seeking the top prosecutor job.” The paper called multiple drug arrests. She wasn’t elected DA until 1998. “The Miracle of 144th District Court, and there is no Henry’s involvement “deeply disturbing.” My final fall was a drug task force bust which other way to explain it.” The newspaper editorial comes as no sur - came when I was on 10 years probation for aggravated After my final drug bust, a phenomenon tran - prise. There are sanctimonious green eyeshade possession of methamphetamine. I received the pro - spired which nobody has ever been able to explain. phonies in those ink-stained ivory towers who bated term in a court other than Reed’s, but after I got Somehow, my paper work got sidetracked and delayed would condemn LaHood and I both to the fiery pit busted that final time my fate fell squarely in the hands in the judicial shuffle, and I managed to run free for an for ever having anything to do with street dope.
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