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Advertise in Action Magazine • DEPARTMENTS • Live 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 1 • FEATURE • Cowtown Boots .......................................7 Music Memories ....................................12 Action Magazine, January 2018 • 3 • Katrina Curtiss is a big hit at harmonica group party I now have two reasons (and, I’m sure it went on In his final years he could and fans of live music who to remember December long after that). I was in- be heard playing his har- attended the event. 7th. Of course, the attack vited to perform a couple monica in his room and in The Alamo chapter of on Pearl Harbor in 1941 is of songs and was accom- the common areas of his H.O.O.T. was founded in etched in my memory, as panied by a group of tal- senior care living centers. 2004 by Betty Welch, an is the Christmas party at ented musicians on bass, His neighbors loved his enthusiast of the harmon- Las Chiladas Mexican drums, lead guitar, and of music, “grace” notes and ica who served as its first Restaurant on December course, a number of “har- all. And, when he didn’t president. This from the 7, 2017. monicats”. have his harmonica, he current president and har- The Holiday Play-In I first learned about this whistled! He died in the monica instructor, Don was hosted by the Alamo group from my now-de- summer of 2016, and I re- McRee, who said: “From Chapter of the Harmonica ceased father-in-law, ally miss him. the start, the mission was Organization of Texas Glenn Walden. Glenn was There is mysterious to promote the advance- (H.O.O.T.) from 6:30 p.m. the spirit of live music, in magic in live music, and ment and appreciation of until I got sleepy and left my well-informed opinion. not all music magicians harmonica music to our are professionals. In fact, community and beyond. most people who play “Throughout the history music never get paid for it. of the organization, on a Like Glenn Walden they practical level, the goal do it because they love it. has been to get the har- And, maybe because they monica in as many peo- harmonica players from all with the local chapter of have to. ple's mouths as possible. over the world convening H.O.O.T. for helping me Among those who do Persons who have always in San Antonio.” recover from my music earn their daily bread per- said they are non-musical I must confess some- business jaundice to dis- forming live music is Kat- suddenly find themselves thing. I am somewhat cover anew the authentic rina Curtiss. Like me, she intrigued by the little ‘tin jaded by my years as a spirit of my own music. was a special guest at the sandwich’. professional musician. In For more information H.O.O.T. party at Las Chi- “In an effort to support fact, that is one of the rea- about H.O.O.T. and/or har- ladas. If Katrina could be live music, a sizeable sons I left Nashville and monica instruction, con- bottled, the label would number of H.O.O.T. mem- returned to Texas in 1982. tact Don McRee at (210) need to include a warning: bers play with bands and I was burned out from 827-6285. On Facebook: 200 Proof! She is the real serve as mentors for other being caught up in the https://www.facebook.com deal, and her music will players. In the same vein, business of music and no /alamohoo both shake and stir you. members join with other longer wanted to sing in Her blues and rock ’n roll musicians to jam twice a the shower, so to speak. ... numbers brought the ca- month at local restaurants But, my association Jim Chesnut, founding pacity-crowd house down. (currently held at Barbe- president of the Texas Live with these harmonica Music Association, is a former And, wouldn’t you cue Station [located on players, which began with major label recording artist know, I had to follow her. Loop 410 at Harry Glenn Walden, has al- and staff songwriter with It reminded me of the Wurzbach] in San Anto- lowed me to re-experience Acuff-Rose Music in Nashville. first time I played in San nio). After 25 years away from the the power of live music as music business, he began per- Antonio in the late 1970s. “Alamo H.O.O.T. has a listener rather than as a forming in and around San An- Drove all the way from also found a way to bring performer. And, what I get tonio in 2008. Since then, He has self-produced and re- Nashville and had to fol- San Antonio's attention to from these folks is authen- low Frenchie Burke at the the harmonica on a larger leased four CDs. Since Janu- ticity. Authenticity is the ary 2016, he has had five KKYX-AM River Festival. scale. The organization most important ingredient consecutive Top-10 national Geez, Louise. Can’t a went international in 2016, in live music performance, indie country singles, three of guy get a break? hosting the annual con- which reached #1 in the Top-40 Katrina Curtiss delivers once again in my well-in- chart of IndieWorld Country Anyway, I was heart- vention of the Society for formed opinion. Record Report. He has been a ened and energized by the Preservation and Ad- freelance contributor to Action So, I have to thank heaping helpings of rock Magazine since the beginning the collective spirit of all vancement of Harmonica Betty Welch, Don McRee the live music performers (SPAH), which drew 500 of 2016. Contact info: and blues. and all the others involved [email protected] SATURDAY MORNINGS 651-4541 9:OOAM - 10:00AM 4810 FM 1518 N. 1/4 MILE EAST OFF IH35 HOURS: 7 DAYS A WEEK Roy Holley 830.426.9228 Host [email protected] • 4 • Action Magazine, January 2018 What Johnny Bush says about Action Magazine: I can sum up Action Magazine in two words: Informative and effective. I not only read Action, I also support it. Action Magazine is San Antonio’s number one entertainment guide. Johnny ush Country star Johnny Bush B www.actionmagsa.com Visit us on the web! Action Magazine, January 2018 • 5 • We survived the blizzard of 2017, the rare snow Strange as it may sound, new snow in South I still believe she gave me the snow shoes as a event in San Antonio and South Texas that was akin to Texas seemed to bring old friends together while kin - joke, but they are works of hand-crafted art with wooden a spiritual experience for many of us. dling the spark of hope with the new ones. I believe it frames and webbing of animal sinew, and the shoes are South Texas kids love new snow, and South may be the healing positivity of something new, bright, in excellent condition. Texas adults become kids again when the big, white, and white as opposed to the negative gray shade of po - Following the recent snow, I took the snow feathery ice crystals come floating down to terra firma. litical bullshit which seems to gnaw at the human main - shoes down from the wall of my workshop shed and For some of the younger kids, this year’s De - stem. moved them into the house. Despite years of Texas cember 7 snowfall was the first time they had ever laid As the snow fell, South Texans took to social heat, they are in excellent condition. And,of course, I eyes on the fluffy white stuff; for many of us older “kids,” media and cell phone to share in the phenomenon of have never had an occasion to use them.