Images, words, sounds strung together More at owentemple.comTumblr (3.0; @owentemple)http://pps.owentemple.com/http://pps.owentemple.com/post/1292554771http://pps.owentemple.com/post/1292554771Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:36:26 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_la51yvdD3K1qzoyyxo1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://pps.owentemple.com/post/1292652944http://pps.owentemple.com/post/1292652944Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:35:00 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ioJizJ93DdQ?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Rex’s Blues from Townes Van Zandt’s Live at the Old Quarter double album.  Recorded in July 1973 at the Old Quarter when it was located in downtown Houston at the <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=austin+at+and+congress+st,+houston+tx&sll=29.757113,-95.362487&sspn=0.010376,0.015321&gl=us&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Austin+St+%26+Congress+St,+Houston,+Harris,+Texas+77002&ll=29.762012,-95.357273&spn=0.010375,0.015321&z=16&layer=c&cbll=29.760173,-95.357274&panoid=cepYcItOZ_Fi5ibEx7Ak0w&cbp=12,178.18,,0,13.33">corner of Congress and Austin</a>.</p> <p>The song is written for Rex “Wrecks” Bell, Townes’ friend, frequent sideman on bass, and owner of the the Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe, then in Houston and now in Galveston.</p>http://pps.owentemple.com/post/1292544193http://pps.owentemple.com/post/1292544193Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:35:00 -0500<a href="http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-09-25/music/rex-wrecks-bell-is-just-playing/">Rex "Wrecks" Bell is Just Playing</a>: <p>A great piece from Houston, Texas writer John Nova Lomax on Wrecks, from around the time of Hurricane Ike, on Wrecks, his relationship with Townes, and the song.</p> <p>From the article on the song Rex’s Blues:</p> <p><span> </span></p> <p>“Townes wrote that song about me, and it could have been about anybody,” Bell said. “It could have been about Blaze Foley, it could have been ‘Blaze’s Blues,’ it could have been ‘Townes’s Blues,’ it could have been a lot of people’s blues. And I hated that song. <em>Hated </em>it.</p> <p>“It’s really not flattering at all,” he continued. “But it’s so true. It really does depict Townes and I when we were doin’ our drugs and drinkin’ and all these dangerous things. He would always ask me to leave the stage when he would play it. I never did ask him why — I saw it as a good chance to go back to the green room and get a shot of vodka — but he never would let me play it with him.”</p>http://pps.owentemple.com/post/1292691051http://pps.owentemple.com/post/1292691051Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:34:00 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_la50z4gT3k1qzoyyxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The Old Quarter in Galveston, Texas, October 2011</p>http://pps.owentemple.com/post/1292515906http://pps.owentemple.com/post/1292515906Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:06:40 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VF9PR9i3OwM?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Wrecks Bell introduces and plays the song that Townes wrote about him.</p>http://pps.owentemple.com/post/1292423200http://pps.owentemple.com/post/1292423200Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:04:00 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_la50n48zgi1qzoyyxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://pps.owentemple.com/post/1292464386http://pps.owentemple.com/post/1292464386Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:59:00 -0500<p>The second track from a new album we’re working on is Desdemona.</p> <p>Wrote this song after spending some time in a few of the old oilfield boomtowns of West and Southeast Texas.</p>http://pps.owentemple.com/post/1263652887http://pps.owentemple.com/post/1263652887Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:54:00 -0500<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/1263626337/tumblr_l9xo8ap9zn1qzoyyx&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p><span>Desdemona</span></p> <p><span>Gabriel Rhodes - Acoustic Guitar<br/>Charlie Sexton - Bass<br/>Rick Richards - Drums, Percussion<br/>Tommy Spurlock - Pedal Steel Guitar<br/></span></p>http://pps.owentemple.com/post/1263626337http://pps.owentemple.com/post/1263626337Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:53:00 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9xonbUooo1qzoyyxo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The discovery well that started the whole boom and bust cycle…</p>http://pps.owentemple.com/post/1263666766http://pps.owentemple.com/post/1263666766Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:52:00 -0500<a href="http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasGhostTowns/Desdemona-Texas.htm">A Boom Town Ghost Town</a>http://pps.owentemple.com/post/1263638207http://pps.owentemple.com/post/1263638207Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:51:30 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9xodxo7oN1qzoyyxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://pps.owentemple.com/post/1263641524http://pps.owentemple.com/post/1263641524Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:49:00 -0500http://pps.owentemple.com/post/570893997http://pps.owentemple.com/post/570893997Mon, 03 May 2010 23:59:00 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1vnlccus41qzoyyxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://pps.owentemple.com/post/569958792http://pps.owentemple.com/post/569958792Mon, 03 May 2010 23:34:00 -0500<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/570006460/tumblr_l1vom5vGSS1qzoyyx&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p>Mountain Home</p> <p>Preview of the title track from the new album</p> <p>Gabriel Rhodes - Acoustic Guitar<br/>Charlie Sexton - Bass<br/>Rick Richards - Drums, Percussion<br/>Tommy Spurlock - Pedal Steel Guitar<br/>Gordy Quist - Harmony Vocals<br/>Jamie Wilson - Harmony Vocals</p>http://pps.owentemple.com/post/570006460http://pps.owentemple.com/post/570006460Mon, 03 May 2010 23:33:00 -0500<p>Mountain Home, at the intersection of State Highway 27 (which runs here along the Old Spanish Trail) and State Highway 41 in north central Kerr County, was settled about 1856. </p> <p><span>The post office was established and named by H. Louis Nelson in 1879. The previous year four children of the Dowdy family, early settlers, had been killed here in the last Indian raid in Kerr County. </span></p> <p><span>The town was called Eura for a brief period in the early twentieth century. It had a population of 150 in 1946. </span></p> <p><span>In 1983 sixty people lived within a one-mile radius of the post office, which served 350 families. The community had a store, a motel, and a church. </span></p> <p><span>Ranching has always been the principal business. </span></p> <p><span>In 2000 the population was ninety-six.</span></p>http://pps.owentemple.com/post/569936487http://pps.owentemple.com/post/569936487Mon, 03 May 2010 23:27:00 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1voa03rwO1qzoyyxo1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://pps.owentemple.com/post/569990528http://pps.owentemple.com/post/569990528Mon, 03 May 2010 23:25:00 -0500<a href="http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1986_235481/i-am-not-afraid-of-the-devil-elderly-mom-of-slave.html">`I am not afraid of the devil'/Elderly mom of slave ranch' suspect insists her clan is innocent</a>: <p>From the Houston Chronicle, published April 30, 1986</p>http://pps.owentemple.com/post/570030185http://pps.owentemple.com/post/570030185Mon, 03 May 2010 23:01:00 -0500<p>Uvalde County is in southwest Texas, about 70 miles from Mexico.</p> <p>Johnny Rodriguez grew up in Sabinal, Texas, a small town in Uvalde County.  </p> <p>Sometimes crime pays.  How Johnny got his break in the music business:</p> <p>1. Stole a goat</p> <p>2. Barbecued it </p> <p>3. Got arrested</p> <p>4. Sang in jail</p> <p>5. Texas Ranger who overheard him sing in jail, told music promoter about him</p> <p>6. Promoter books a gig for him at Alamo Village (replica town built for filming of 1960 film <em>The Alamo</em>)</p> <p>7. At gig, Tom T. Hall hears about him, hires him for his band</p> <p>8. Hall gets him audition with Mercury Records</p> <p>9. Rodriguez signed to Mercury Records</p>http://pps.owentemple.com/post/543217664http://pps.owentemple.com/post/543217664Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:40:00 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/g6Ix70-v8Qw?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Johnny Rodriguez doing a Merle Haggard song for a crowd in southwest Texas.</p>http://pps.owentemple.com/post/543226906http://pps.owentemple.com/post/543226906Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:30:00 -0500