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I guess I was about 12 when I realized that guitars and rodeo queens were a mighty fine combination ...
I saved up my summer wages that season. Earned by performing tasks and doing chores us kids learned by demonstration and example in mostly silent ways and been entrusted with over the years ... working the entry and catch pen gates and chutes, placing and stripping riggings, pushing cattle, untying calves, placing and replacing barrels, picking up hats, flank straps, bull ropes and piggin strings, and if a barrel racer lost her bat you can bet there was a footrace to get it.
Bob Wills, Ernest and Justin Tubb, Hank Williams, the other two Hanks, Jim Reeves, Ray Price, Marty Robbins and many others over the arena p.a. in the evening twilight and after the performance before the slack. Some I even got to hear live. And dances ...
When the slack was finished we cooled out horses.
And we'd do it again the next evening.
My family has no idea how many horses I have straddled or led.
I picked up pop bottles. A nickel a carton, a quarter a case. It was usually easy money, but once a bottle war broke out along the Medicine River. The locals made a raid on our cache and we cried foul to our elders. They said to settle it ourselves. I don't remember exactly how the situation was resolved ... we probably decided this sand wasn't worth bloodshed. A year or so later we all gathered around a transistor radio and listened to baseball beneath the October sky. My former "adversary" was a Dodger fan, and we were both wolves in training.
I worked a carnival booth a couple of nights in Winterset for a buck. People would throw baseballs at old 78s. I retrieved the projectiles and replaced the records. Lord knows what music was beneath my feet.
I picked up pennies.
When things wound down in the fall I had $20, my mother covered the shipping and handling and I ordered a black and red sunburst Silvertone.
I guess I was about 13 when I tried to play a little tune for a goddess, and she smiled.
And I'll bet you a quarter she remembers the tune.
I've had my hat stolen by a horseman's daughter. Right off my head. Once upon a time she shared a bag a sunflower seeds, and as we chewed I was in the company of and conversing with the most beautiful creature in all of creation for hours. Between Dodge and Ogallala, south of the Smoky Hill ... the horizon was 25 miles in any direction.
I've carried water for Gwen of Pueblo and ridden Sandy's barrel horse. I've seen cinches break, kneecaps smashed on the outrun, men knocked cold by broken ropes and horses drop in their tracks. And watched in amazement as a very young lady turned a developing wreck into grace and beauty at the pasture roping.
I'll even admit to the possibility of sitting polo ponies and racehorses.
I may be the last person on earth that grew up horseback in grass to the saddle horn.
ummm ... excuse me a minute ... ... ( will you guys stop laughing? I can exaggerate if I want! ... hush ... ) ...
... jumping ahead a decade (1973), on a cold and blustery January night, there was a concert in Ahearn Fieldhouse featuring Earl Scruggs - His Family and Friends. On stage that night were The Earl Scruggs Revue, The Dirt Band, The Byrds*, David Bromberg, Ramblin' Jack, Doc and Merle, Tracy Nelson and Mother Earth and Joan Baez. Ten hours and several fuse boxes later the cordwood had been pretty well stacked**.
In the fall of '74 I blew off a pathology exam covering elements of mediterranean etymology*** and went to this thing called the Third Annual Walnut Valley Festival. Doc and Merle, Norman, Dr. Crary and New Grass provided plenty of sparks to light the fire and things ain't been the same since!
How could something be so simple and delicate and powerful and complex all at the same time?!?
* I guess I saw Clarence live, but I didn't know then what I know now.
** Legend has it the performers came back onstage later and jammed for 6 hours.
*** I'm still learning ... it's a lot like music ...
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