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A few questions that will probably never be an- wheel chair and scooter companies, embalmers, Why should it be illegal for to smoke swered to my satisfaction. hearing aid specialists, and denture purveyors from marijuana? When doctors tell people they have ailments mail bombardments of residents 50 years or older? Veteran roadie Ben Dorcie says Willie was smok- which are incurable but treatable, doesnʼt that mean Why must April Ancira Thompson wag her infant ing weed before most of the anti-drug agents were that the patient and/or his/her insurance company had son into TV car commercials she films for her papaʼs born, and that he should be afforded some sort of best brace for some long-term and astronomical doc- multiple car dealerships? Maybe the little fellow would grandfather clause immunity from arrest and harass- tor bills? prefer not to be in car ads on TV. ment. You might be dying, Hoss, but they wonʼt let you If we are going to criminalize the watching of both go out on the cheapie. dog and rooster fights, why donʼt we consider the bru- Why do little kids pick boogers out of their noses Loping the Mule talizations of humans? If masturbation is a perfectly normal and healthy and then eat them? We support, condone, and glorify the “sweet sci- sexual outlet for males of all ages, races, and creeds, Why do they have Spurs power forward Tim Dun- ence” of boxing, although it results in brain damage, then why do guys hide when they do it? can touting Honda cars on TV when he couldnʼt even facial disfigurement, and even death. I have person- Why do car salesmen on TV literally scream into fit into one? ally known some ex-fighters who walk on their heels, your living rooms? Is there any real basis for the titty bars to hold twitch, jerk, slur their words, and violently bat their Why do old cocktail waitresses and female bar- themselves out to be “gentlemens clubs”? Do old eyes in bright sunlight. tenders persist in calling their male customers by such dudes in business suits really qualify as “gentlemen?” Could the “sport” possibly be worth all of the neg- terms of endearment as “Honey,” “Baby Doll,” “Dar- ative shit that comes with it? ling” and “Sweetie Pie” when, in actuality, they would Why doenʼt someone explain to Wayne Wright like to strangle about half of these loud-mouthed shit- The Mattress Sale that a cowboy hat must never be placed brim-down Has there ever been a San Antonio mattress store heads? on a table? that didnʼt advertise a colossal sale going on at this Why does KSAT sports announcer Greg Sim- Why do drunks get into the nightclub business? very minute? mons talk so fast that many watchers of that station They are all doomed to fail in the long haul. For San Antonio pickup truck dealers is there ever canʼt understand a word he says? He sounds like a What do the flacks mean when they refer to a a month that isnʼt “Truck Month”? goat auctioneer from some place like Junction, So- ʻstate of the art” facility? How many children will be killed by pit bull terriers nora, or Snakeʼs Navel, Wyoming. before the legislature, the police, and the canine pro- Why do super dark-skinned people get tattoos? tection bloc finally come out and admit that the breed What makes “holy water” holy? TV Nonsense is dangerous and unpredictable? Why do some churches send money and mis- When will the electronics media talking heads Why are the furniture stores allowed to tout nev- sionaries to such far-flung outposts as Nigeria and stop making reference to what they call a “senseless er ending going-out-of-business sales when most of Ethiopia when there are half-starving children living in murder”? them donʼt go out of business? abject poverty all over San Antonio. Has there ever been a sensible murder? If the third tradition of Alcoholics Anonymous says If there is no God, then why do organized Ameri- Why do Express and News rural carriers who fail “the only requirement for membership is a desire to can aethists waste their money, time, and lung power to deliver a newspaper on the day it was printed both- stop drinking,” then how do the courts get off on man- trying to convince the rest of us that no such God ex- er to throw that paper along with the next dayʼs issue? dating DWI probationers into AA meetings? ists? A day-old newspaper is worthless to most sub- And what do people mean when they claim scribers, and they should get either credit on their bill spending “quality” time with God? Wouldnʼt any time or a cash refund for days when the paper is not deliv- A Paper Matter with God be classified as “quality”? ered. f Most o them have no desire to stop drinking. 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• 6 • Action Magazine, April 2011 Mr. ‘Cotton-Eyed Joe’ Al Dean still shit-kickin The Cotton-Eyed Joe is literally stomped to by thou- McEnery in the San Anto- in 1987 from the American “I played some fiddle with I have booked Mel a number a lively fiddle dance tune that sands of country dance hall nio area. But the musician Music Association of Texas the band at one time,” Galen of times. He is still playing and probably originated in Ireland. aficionados over the years. most credited for establish- (jukebox dealers) for having said. “But I have been mostly drawing good crowds today.” It is one of those public Many have recorded ver- ing Cotton-Eyed Joe as the the most played song in the the lead guitarist. I started Al said, “I owned the sec- domain songs, claimed by no sions of the tune, from the shit-kickerʼs anthem of Texas history of Texas jukeboxes,” with the instrument when I ond Fender Rhodes electric living or known dead writer, legendary Bob Wills to Adolph is 80-year-old Al Dean, a San Dean said. “Wurlitzer put the was a kid, and my dad always keyboard ever made. The but danced to, clapped to, and Hoffner and Red River Dave Antonio area resident who is cd on jukeboxes worldwide. told people I never had a real Beatles had the first one. And out of retirement and again And in 1999, the recording job.” it was Hank Snow at an old doing his thing with Al Dean got us inducted into the Texas Cindy Shaw, an RN who Municipal Auditorium show and the New All-Stars. Hall of Fame.” works in San Antonio, has in San Antonio who inspired As for the oft-heard term Al said his band backed been playing with the Deans me to start using an electronic “shit-kicker” as applied to rural Rex Allen at a Dilley rodeo, since she was 18. She was instrument tuner. Now it is all dancers with fresh cow dung and he recalls the night his with them on many a show at digital.” still clinging to their boots, band was double booked at the old Farmerʼs Daughter. Al Dean owned the Bour- Dean proudly assumes re- the Cabaret Club in Bandera A walking encyclopedia bon Street Club in San Anto- sponsibility for the term which with BobWills and The Texas on country music and the old nio in 1975 and 1976, where has even caused fist fights in Playboys. musicians who made the in- he featured such country vo- some areas. “We didnʼt get to play that dustry what it is today, Dean calists as Stoney Edwards, “I am the original shitkick- one,” Dean said. “But we got built the All-Star Club in Fre- who along with Charlie Pride er,” Dean said. “I got the name to stay for Bobʼs show. We er in 1960, and later he was was one of the first black per- many years ago as I was pull- had no choice because his booking such stars as Tammy formers in country music. ing into Laredo Air Force Base bus had us blocked in.” Wynette and Little Jimmy The club that was then with my old band Al Dean and Dean said he backed Dickens into Al Deanʼs in Bourbon Street is today the All-Stars. I was driving an Wills even beforeWills had a Victoria and Hubert’s Dance the popular Make My Day Olds 95 and pulling a trailer full band, his lead vocalist in Land in Rivera just outside of Lounge, located at Nacogdo- full of band instruments, when those days being Tag Lam- Kingsville. ches and Perrin Beitel roads. a guard at the base gate said, bert. He says he also played “Those were some wild Al Dean was among ʻWell, itʼs the shit-kicker band backup on occasion for Willie and wooly days,” he recalls. many who considered the again. You guys really do play Nelson, Wade Ray, George “There was money available now-deceased Edwards to shitkicker music.ʼ“ Jones, and . then, and we did some pretty have one of the finest voices Dean liked the sound “I distributed my own re- good business on occasion. in the genre. of it, and he promptly estab- cords until I finally got Don I can remember going to the “I sold the old Bourbon lished a record label which Dailey of Glad Music to do it bank in Victoria after a big Street to Fred Seekatz,” Dean is wellknown today as KickR for me,” Dean recalls. “Donʼs night with $6,000 cash in one said. “And I can remember Records. son, Mike Dailey, played steel hand and a loaded shotgun in when Fredʼs ex-wife Lana Al Dean and the All-Stars for George Strait, and it was the other.” was selling advertising for Ac- have recorded some 15 al- Don who discovered George He went on, saying: “Iʼm tion Magazine.” Al Dean bums, and such Al Dean tunes Jones.” full of stories about music Dean now lives in a rural as Roughneck Paycheck and As straight as a cedar and the older country musi- setting near the Bexar and Resting on My Laurels still get corner post, and as fit as the cians. I have played on the Medina county line. air play on occasion. fiddle he never played, Dean same bill with Mel Tillis, and “Al Dean” Cont’d on pg. 14 A member of the Texas says quitting alcohol and al- Country Music Hall of Fame, most three packs of cigarettes the man born Albert Dean a day back in the 1960s has Callaway in Freer, Texas is a contributed to his good health living legend who has owned and longevity. ranches, nightclubs, booked “Iʼm too healthy to just sit and promoted bands, sold oil- home and do nothing,” Dean field equipment, real estate, said. “So Iʼm back out there recorded numerous albums with the New All-Stars, my of original music, and backed son Galen, and Cindy Shaw, everyone from a longtime family friend vocal- to Lefty Frizzell and Webb ist who can really sing. Galen Pierce. and I play live guitars, and we With his original band, work with recorded bass and Al Dean and the All-Stars, Al drum backup. And while we played guitar behind four fid- donʼt have a fiddler, we will do dlers on his 1967 version of the Cotton-Eyed Joe.” the centuries-old dance song Numerous musicians that became the number-one have worked with Al Dean most-played jukebox song in and the All-Stars, but the origi- Texas history. nal group included son Galen Deanʼs version of Cotton- on lead guitar and vocals, wife Eyed Joe is still the seventh Maxine on drums and vocals, inning theme song for the and son Gary on electric bass Texas Rangers, and, at one and harmony. time, the San Antonio Spurs Galen and Gary now opened their games with the operate Calaway Realtors in lively tune. Boerne, a firm where Al Dean Galen Dean “We received an award maintains his business office. Cindy Shaw Action Magazine, April 2011 • 7 • • 8 • Action Magazine, April 2011

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• 12 • Action Magazine, April 2011 Big Ram Jam ready to roll on East Side sn It i a understatement to respect, and friendship com- say that San Antonio is a city bined to make the man. He of many and varied traditions. welcomed and respected ev- From freedom to food to family, eryone who came to his place, there is deep lineage deserv- unless and until they gave him ing celebration. Another great a reason not to. There was a San Antonio tradition is its col- real family dynamic there”. orful musical heritage. The bar itself also held a Ramiro “Ram” Ayala was great appeal, which may not as good a friend, and as stead- have been clear to the ca- fast a supporter as musicians sual passer-by, but was not could ever have in this city. in question to the Taco Land Ram owned and operated the initiated. “What made Taco fabled Taco Land, a watering Land a special place?” Accord- hole and live music mecca ing to musician, promoter, and on the nearnorthern fringe of Saustex Records’ founder Jeff downtown San Antonio, for Smith: “The lack of pretense nearly 40 years. During that and that for such an unremark- stretch, hundreds (or dare able, down at the heels set-up we say thousands) of bands it could be the greatest place in from near & far took to the tiny the world to see a band.” Ram Jam founders Jeff Smith (left) and Jerry Clayworth - (Photo by Sherri Wiebush) stage, churning out rock-n-roll, Everything changed in the “Though any night that jam with the Ram’! So, it only egotistical individuals (myself East Houston Street). There country, blues, rockabilly, punk early morning hours of June one walked through the doors seemed appropriate that we included),” Smith said, “ I don’t will be two stages of live mu- rock, noise, and every other 24, 2005. Without rehash- of Taco Land held the potential call this annual celebration the think he ever fancied himself sic, featuring Big Drag, The sound imaginable.... ing the horrible details of that for a party, there was always ‘RAM JAM’.” as a ‘Music Impresario’. He Infidels with Patricia Vonne, The audience at Taco night, there was a shooting in one weekend in particular that This year marks the Sixth was just a guy who happened Hickoids, Puppy Jet, The Sons Land was as varied as the which Ayala and his doorman absolutely guaranteed puro Annual installment of the Ram to own a bar where bands Of Hercules, The Ugly Beats music that bands would play Doug Morgan were killed. That party punch.... Those were Jam, which has grown by leaps played. He didn’t play talent (from Austin), Suzy Bravo & there. This is what made the infamous night was the first Ramʼs Birthday Weekends, and bounds, and is now draw- scout or music critic...Nirvana The Soul Revue, Chelsea bar on West Grayson such a time many people had ever which rolled around the sec- ing music fans who weren’t or Gwar wasn’t any more im- Hotel (from Houston), The melting pot, and a welcome heard of Taco Land, but to the ond week of April each year. even familiar with Taco Land. portant to him than the Infidels Far Crys, and Pinata Protest. getaway to the cool, the hip- extended TL family, it was a When the time for Ramʼs birth- “It’s so good to see all or Los #3 Dinners”. There will also be an art exhibit sters, old-timers, dropouts, sheer tragedy, and an unex- day approached in 2006, Jerry these new faces each year, Regarding Ram’s “celeb- by LA David (aka LA Cosmico), professionals, and downtrod- plainable loss. Clayworth & Saustex Mediaʼs in addition to the ones we’ve rity” status, Jeff adds: “I guess who’s Chicano Street Art hung den alike. And at the center Quoting from the Ram Jeff Smith knew that the best known from Ram’s place”, over time, his celebrity grew, on the walls at Taco Land, and of this cacophony of humanity Jam press release: “Some way to honor & celebrate their Clayworth says. “He would but he was always the same Austin’s Old School BBQ & was the man everyone called might have been content to friend, as well as keep the spirit welcome everyone who came man from when I first met Grill will be on hand with their “Daddy”, that was Ram. consider this terrible event the of Taco Land alive & well, was through the door to listen to him in 1982 up until the last famous BBQ Bus. Longtime veteran of the end of the Taco Land era, but to continue the yearly bash....” music, so I feel like we’re per- time I saw and talked to him, Gates open at 6:00pm, music scene, Jerry Clayworth, it would have been even more And the name? Clayworth petuating that vibe now too”. the night before he was mur- and music starts at 7:00 pm. sums up Ayala’s flare best: tragic to close the book on explains: “I once jokingly asked It’s important to Smith that dered.” Cover charge is $7.00 and the “Ram was the epitome of San everything that the “House of Ram why so many bands vied the yearly gathering reflect This year’s Ram Jam will show’s net proceeds will ben- Antonio cool... He came up in Ram” built & stood for all those to play his birthdays, to which Ayala’s approach... “In a busi- take place on Saturday, April efit the Dee Dee (Diana) Wil- the old-school, where honesty, years....” he replied ‘Everybody wants to ness filled with self-important, 9th at Backstage Live (1305 liams Medical Fund.

Action Magazine, April 2011 • 13 • “Al Dean” Cont’d from pg. 7 other, twisting and turning with one is titled Iʼm a Real Cow- “Scatter Shots” Cont’d from pg. 11 soda available at Leonʼs. Raised by his grandpar- such vim, vigor, and improvi- boy. I will put both of them on loon on Presa Street. Covered dish/desserts will ents around Freer, Al grew up sion that his dance partners a new cd, and I am also writing Brown is unique with a be appreciated. working on a family ranch. On often backed away just to some cowboy poetry.” hybrid guitar he designed Board members Ray weekends, and already bitten watch him. Al Dean and the New All- and built himself. Phipps and Barry Martin are by the music bug, he and his “He was always after me Stars played Mustang Sallyʼs Part 6-string guitar and urging everyone to spread friends would travel hundreds to play and record Cotton- on Roosevelt Avenue in San part steel guitar, the instru- the word, and to bring their of miles in a beatup truck to Eyed Joe,” Dean said. “It was Antonio last month, and be- ment is known as a “guit- cameras to the reunion. one of the smartest things ginning this month, Dean and hear legends like Bob Wills, steel.” Stefania Relocates Hank Thompson, and Harry I ever did. The tune liter- crew will be at Mustang Sallyʼs Brown gets some su- ally started a dance craze in on the third Friday of every Stefania Baldesarelli, Choate. per country sounds out of recently departed from her Albert Dean Callawayʼs South Texas that has never month from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m. the contraption. really stopped.” Randy Trout and Friends Stefania ʼs County Italian first band was a group called on San Pedro and the Riv- The Texas Teenagers. When Dean is also a yodeller, play Mustang Sallyʼs from 930 Manu at Apple and generations of fans al- p.m. until 1:30 a.m. on the first Spurs super star Manu erwalk Dolores Del Rioʼs, that band broke up, Al formed is back in business with Al Dean and the All-Stars, and ways give him a standing ova- Friday of each month. Ginobili is a familiar sight Marc Benno tion after he sings tunes like In addition to night clubs, at the Apple Store in the Stefaniaʼs Oriental Rugs he has been playing music now lining up more Texas Casting My Lasso. Al Deanʼs group is available Shops at La Cantera. at 825 Fredericksburg ever since. gigs before the planned tour His latest cd is on the for weddings, birthdays, fairs, He reportedly visits the Road. An old cowboy by the of Japan. “I was in the rug busi- name of Gaston Mills gets Heart of Texas label, and Al rodeos, ropings, and class re- computer outlet often, and Dean says he is writing new unions. sometimes with his father. Southside Reunion ness even before I opened credit for Deanʼs first interest restaurants on the St. material now for an upcoming “We have music for all Another familiar sports The 6th Annual South- in the Cotton-Eyed Joe. Maryʼs Strip,” Stefania recording project. occasions,” Dean says. “And figure at the Apple Store is side (Old Timerʼs) Reunion Mills, who died only a said. “I buy, sell, and trade “Iʼve got some new tunes,” we can furnish D.J. services retired Spurs all-star David will run from noon through- few years ago, was a color- rugs, and I am also giving he said. “One I call Texas Ainʼt upon request.” Robinson. out the afternoon on April 9 ful character who could dance belly dancing classes at Texas Anymore, and the other Chances of Al Dean at Leonʼs Ice House, Rigsby the Cotton-Eyed Joe like no Benno Reborn the new location.” again retiring anytime soon Guitar slick Marc Ben- and W.W. White Road. A high-energy busi- are slim. no, now based in Hunt, has An event that seems HOURS: nesswoman and dancer Noon-2 am “I figure on doing what revived his career with a to grow in popularity with who has owned and op- 7 Days a Week Iʼm doing as long as I feel new publicist, new gigs, and each passing year, the re- erated a dance school, like it, and when I donʼt feel a planned tour of Japan in union was started to reunite both Italian and seafood like it anymore, then I reckon the not-too-distant future. 1950s and 1960s-era stu- restaurants, and even an I will be ready to check out,” The publicist, Randy dents from such southside herb farm at Helotes, Ste- Dean grinned, adding: “And I Ellis, said: “Marc went out schools as HotWells, Page, fania isnʼt one to let much have never felt better than I do to save the world one per- Poe, Brackenridge, High- grass grow under her feet. now.” son at a time, and now heʼs lands, Old Sam Houston, And she is already talking Al and Galen Dean may coming back to do what he Burbank, and St. Gerards. 4810 about yet another restau- be reached at (210) 688-3179 loves and was born to do.” Donated barbeque will E. FM 1518 N. rant and bar venture. Selma, TX or (210 688-9299. Also at Benno worked a gig last be cooked by Larry Colson “You never can tell,” 1/4 mi. east of www.AlDean.info and at www. month in Linden, Texas with and Frank Guerrero. It is a she said. “I do get bored IH 35 651-4541 AlDean-GalenDean.com. Bugs Henderson, and he is B.Y.O.B. affair with beer and easily.”

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