They tell me these quotes are posted behind the bar at Luckenbach…
“If you need credit, you don’t need a beer. You need a job!”
“If you’re drinking to forget, please pay in advance.”
Ok, so I am going to love just being at this place, let alone humbled enough to get to perform there this Saturday!
I have never been to Luckenbach… but, I have visited there via
Wille and Waylon’s song entitled, “Luckenbach Texas” that I wore out on my “Ol Waylon” tape, and Jerry Jeff Walker’s entire album entitled “Viva Luckenbach”.
I have heard Jerry Jeff on his CD’s talk about Hondo
(pictured left) How Hondo bought the place back around 1970. I never met the man, but they tell me his business cards read “Imagineer“… now, that’s my kind of guy. I have felt like an eight year old boy riding down the road in my pick up truck over the last ten years or so…. imagining Luckenbach Texas and this Hondo character. “A True Story People”…. Check out their History page, it reads like a Larry McMurtry novel.
I love the state of Texas, it’s people, and their second to none LOVE for music. I love their belief in spontaneous dancing ANYWHERE when a song they love hits their ears and it reaches their souls, and causes an instant need to hold someone… and DANCE!
I am honored and blessed to have gotten a call from Abbey inviting me to come share some of my tunes this Saturday, where the likes of Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, Pat Greene, Robert Earl Keen, Lyle Lovett, and Deryl Dodd have performed. I am looking forward to hanging with Deryl Dodd and the Homesick Cowboys, Ralph and the Dirt Road Gypsies, and making new friends! I can’t wait.
Take a moment to visit their web site, and visit Abbey when you go hear the great music in Texas!
There is something about fishing that is magical isn’t there? I remember fishing as a young boy with dad and my great Uncle Glenn. I don’t remember each individual fish that I caught, or the ones my brothers caught.. (well, with the exception of Shelby’s giant cat!). But, I do remember.. ‘fishing’. There is something very magical about the word. ‘Fishing‘. To a small child this word places a sparkle in their eyes.
And yet even still.. when that bobber disappears.. when that bobber ducks itself underneath the top of the water… our natural reaction is to jerk that line and hook that fish… right? I mean after all this is what we have been WAITING ON.. But, even then we have to be patient! Yes, we have to let that fish sniff around that bait, look at it, explore it, and even for milliseconds that seem like an eternity, we must wait for that fish to take the bait and then the hook. Ah, yes.. then.. then we have not only been fishing, but we have caught a fish!
So, all that teaching, coaching, and patience we are putting into your children.. well, it really teaches us. And one of these days that bobber, that you have tied with an expert knot on the other end of your heart string, well… it is going to disappear for a moment… and you are going to feel that tug on your heart string.. But remember! If you jerk that line too soon… the only lesson you learn is that you haven’t learned your lesson. Be patient people… because you no doubt have something on the end of your line, something real, something very special… and with patience, sooner than later you will get it in the same boat with you.
“Unless there’s a Divine intervention, this record probably isn’t going to go head-to-head with anything on today’s Christian radio, and that’s a shame. Nothing against Francesca Battistelli or TobyMac, but this is a recording by two men who obviously love the Lord and aren’t afraid to use the gifts He gave them to say so. This isn’t a contemporary Christian album, a country album, a bluegrass album or a rock album. It’s just heartfelt music by a couple guys who make consistently good albums and love Jesus. In the end, Skaggs isn’t the star — God is. Which was probably the plan all along”. Rick Moore from 
Back to School! This phrase is visited one million times during the late summer months each year. And, I must admit.. it might ring a bit more true to me.. than most my age.
I wanted to share this photo with all of you because it’s very special. This is one of my favorites for many reasons. It is humbling for me to sit in a chair next to a hall of fame musician, humbling that he isn’t / wasn’t making me feel ‘unworthy’.. (all great musicians have that gift.. especially this one), and most of all very proud to sit next to my dad.
red Fender Telecaster. Later I would meet Steve and hear him say, “Oh, yeah…you’re one of those Kennedy’s… Man, I love your dad, love your brothers, y’all are Graaaayyyyt”. ! YES… From that pronunciation of the the word ‘great’ forward, I fell right in with this legend and Hall of Fame bound talent, Steve Wariner.
Steve and I were out together with Garth for several shows in Chicago back when Steve recorded his #1 huge hit, “Holes in the Floor of Heaven”. He and I have also written together, and worked with brother Gordon on Jerry Reed’s album at Steve’s Studio (where I hope he left the Radar on).
His CD 
Number 3.5 in my series of “Who Played on my CD”..
Brother Gordon was in Tennessee working on guitar parts after I had been there to watch him lay down the basic tracks. When he would put a new guitar part on one of the tunes, he would email it to me for my approval. (as if I wouldn’t approve anything he played! Hilarious, but very courteous of him). He would send me mp3’s of a guitar part on this song or that.. each making me realize how blessed I was that he was working on this back in Tennessee when I knew he had better things to do. Well, one day I get an MP3 of new guitar parts on three of the songs. I listened to the first, and all the while I am listening I am in great awe of the playing. Again, the perfect parts, the perfect placement, the seemingly effortless notes, licks, and amazing tones. Perfect! After listening to the first song I began the song again, and then again and again. It was normal for me to admire Gordon’s playing, but something was different? Something was slightly different? My brother has somehow developed a new side to his already amazing touch on the guitar! An awesome new side, one that few hear… ever! I found myself daring to say it was kind of Chet Atkins ‘ish’.. Yes, I said the greatest of all.. Chet Atkins! I listened over and over and over, until I had to pick up the phone to brag on one of my brothers once again, I called him up.
