{"id":962,"date":"2018-12-31T14:58:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=962"},"modified":"2018-12-31T14:58:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:58:15","slug":"texas-reads-archiveglenn-dromgoole-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=962","title":{"rendered":"Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

6.11.2017\u00a0\u00a0 A night with Johnny Cash remembered<\/h1>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>In his engaging book<\/span> Live from Aggieland: Legendary Performances in the Brazos Valley<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Texas A&M University Press, $24.95 hardcover), author Rob Clark<\/span> devotes one chapter to the Johnny Cash concert that was cancelled by A&M President Earl Rudder in 1965 after Cash was arrested in El Paso with a large supply of drugs.<\/p>\n

As editor of the A&M student newspaper, The Battalion,<\/span> I was right in the middle of that controversy, which resulted in Cash performing off campus at the Lakeview Amusement Club. Clark quotes me extensively, and correctly, throughout the chapter, and I enjoyed reliving the whole episode more than fifty years later.<\/p>\n

Other chapters in Clark\u2019s book cover Elvin Presley, Nat \u201cKing\u201d Cole, Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett,<\/span> and Robert Earl Keen, R.E.M, the Ramones,<\/span> and Garth Brooks,<\/span> with \u201cother notable moments\u201d mentioning Johnny Mathis, Steve Martin, Reba McEntire,<\/span> and others.<\/p>\n

Of course, there have been many more acts, more than could be covered in a single book. Another notable one I recall from my days was when George Jones<\/span> and Jerry Lee Lewis<\/span> and other country musicians shared the stage for a night of the Louisiana Hayride broadcast live from a sold-out G. Rollie White arena in the spring of 1965. Jones was drunk and Lewis punched out the piano.<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Going for a swim:<\/span> You\u2019ll feel cooler during the hot Texas summer just looking at the pictures in the full-color guide to The Swimming Holes of Texas<\/span><\/a><\/span> by Julie Wernersbach<\/span> and Carolyn Tracy<\/span> (University of Texas Press, $21.95 paperback). And you\u2019ll feel even cooler if you pick out one or two of the more than 100 swimming holes covered in the book and take a plunge.<\/p>\n

The swimming sites are grouped by region \u2014 North, East, Central, South, West, and Austin and the Surrounding Area \u2014 so there should be several within easy driving distance of nearly everyone in Texas.<\/p>\n

The authors provide practical information, such as phone numbers, web sites, hours, entrance fees, rules, amenities, and swimming tips. Each location gets two or three pages, including a color photograph that virtually lures you into the water.<\/p>\n

Midland museum:<\/span> The University of Oklahoma Press has published a 168-page full-color catalog, Museum of the Southwest: Selection from the Permanent Collection<\/span><\/a><\/span> ($50 hardcover, $35 paper). The coffee-table book includes works of about seventy artists, including Thomas Hart Benton, Peter Hurd, Grant Wood, Norman Rockwell,<\/span> and John James Audubon.<\/span> A brief biographical essay accompanies each artist\u2019s images.<\/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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