{"id":1112,"date":"2018-12-31T15:43:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2018-12-31T15:43:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:43:39","slug":"glenn-dromgooles-texas-reads-column-appears-weekly-at-lonestarliterary-com-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n

11.5.2017\u00a0\u00a0 Photographer recorded \u201970s music scene<\/h1>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Albany cattleman\/photographer Watt Casey Jr. <\/span>relives the eclectic Austin music scene in the 1970s in his impressive new book, My Guitar Is a Camera<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Texas A&M University Press, $35 hardcover).<\/p>\n

In photographs and accompanying text, Casey displays his up-close and personal acquaintance with some of the greatest musicians of that era: Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Eric Clapton, the Eagles, the Oak Ridge Boys, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Kinky Friedman, Merle Haggard, Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Fats Domino, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Carlos Santana, Townes Van Zandt, Jerry Garcia, Leon Russell, Joe Ely<\/span> \u2014 the list goes on and on.<\/p>\n

Casey was a young photojournalism student at the University of Texas when he became fascinated with the music and the musicians playing in Austin. His photography pursuits would take him across the country in the \u201970s and early \u201980s.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI had a front-row seat \u2014 or better \u2014 to one of the most creative, formative, and occasionally crazy times in Texas and American popular music history,\u201d Casey writes. Rock star Steve Miller<\/span> encouraged Casey to put this collection together and even wrote a foreword for the book, calling it \u201ca time capsule full of previously unseen treasures.\u201d<\/p>\n

Casey was featured this weekend at the Texas Book Festival in Austin. He will sign copies of his book at the Old Jail Art Center in his hometown of Albany from 5\u20136 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 11.<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Sandra Brown:<\/span> The latest romantic thriller from Texas bestselling novelist Sandra Brown is Seeing Red<\/span> (Grand Central Publishing, $27 hardcover). The story involves the Major, who became an American hero after he helped several people survive the bombing of a Dallas hotel twenty-five years ago. But in recent years the Major has refused all interviews.<\/p>\n

Now comes TV journalist Kerra Bailey, who manages to get the Major to agree to an exclusive interview, and she plans to reveal a big surprise on national TV \u2014 that she was the little girl pictured with the Major coming out of the bombed hotel. She gets her scoop, but soon she and the Major are both in danger for their lives, and the Major\u2019s angry, reclusive and very sexy son interjects himself into the middle of the mystery.<\/p>\n

As usual, Sandra Brown keeps the action at a fast pace with several erotic scenes spicing up the narrative. If you\u2019re looking for a PG-type read, this isn\u2019t it. More like an R.<\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is West Texas Stories<\/span><\/a><\/span>Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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