The Big Green House

Friday, December 20, 2002

 

Show and tell

Karen, an acquaintance from work, brought by a treasure trove for me to look at and drool over: her vinyl copy of For The Last Time, the final Bob Wills album, which she had gotten signed by some of the Texas Playboys themselves: Leon McAuliffe, Al Stricklin, Eldon Shamblin, and Leon Rausch. She also showed me her scrapbook from when they played here at Bumbershoot in 1982. Karen was their driver/host while they were here, and actually got to play with them. How cool is that? (She currently plays fiddle with How�s Bayou.)

She says they were all really nice guys, which is always good to hear about musicians one admires; sometimes they�re not always so pleasant, I hear. Al Stewart once reduced a friend of mine to tears, and not by singing, either. She spent a lot of time, during finals week, making a poster for a show he was to put on at her school. When she showed it to him, all he said was, �Oh, goody�, in the most snooty, sarcastic British manner possible. I guess the last laugh is on Al, though; when was the last time you heard anything from him, outside the �adult contemporary�/bankteller radio station?



bmarkey 12/20/2002 09:39:00 PM