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Never be without your Action Magazine, available anywhere in the world via internet access. • DEPARTMENTS • Sam Kindrick...........................................6 Editor & Publisher..................Sam Kindrick Everybody’s Somebody..........................9 Sales........................................Action Staff Photography.............................Action Staff Scatter Shots.........................................10 Distribution............................Ronnie Reed Composition..........................Elise Taquino Volume 39 • Number 10 • FEATURES • Amber Digby ............................................4 Letters to Editor .....................................13 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 20% OFF Most Bonds At the corner of Commerce & Comal 210Vic-to2ria 2Emb4rey-, M9ana9ger 15 • 4 • Action Magazine, November 2014 13247 BANDERA RD, HELOTES, TX 78237 210-695-4941 NOW FEATURING LIVE MUSIC! 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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.