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Volume 39 • Number 10
• FEATURES •
Ron Knuth ...............................................4
More Old Drunks ...................................13
Action Magazine, October 2014 • 3 •
When the talk turns
to fiddlers, it starts
and stops with Knuth
Ron Knuth is a fiddle
wizard and songwriter
who paid the late Ray
Price a living tribute which
was delivered shortly before Price’s death.
It is a song Knuth wrote
titled Songs Of The
Cherokee Cowboy, a
beautiful salute to the vocalist who Johnny Bush
and others have described
as the greatest country
singer of all time.
Curtis Potter sings lead
on the recording with
Willie Nelson’s voice joining in, and Knuth is proud
to note that the tune was
recorded at Bobby Flores’
Bulverde studio with fiddle
backing by both Knuth and
Flores, and with Randy
Reinhardt adding both
steel guitar and piano.
“Ray got to hear the
recording
before
his
death,” Knuth said, “and
he predicted that it might
well become a hit. I had
sent Willie an email, and
he said, ‘Count me in.’ His
engineers provided us
with his input on the
record.”
The song is the title cut
and leadoff song on the
Curtis Potter album Songs
Of The Cherokee Cowboy,
a cd recorded on the
Heart of Texas Records
label in Brady.
“We did the title song at
Bobby’s studio,” Knuth
said. “The rest of the
songs on the album were
done by the Heart of
Texas Records people,
and there are some of
Price’s greatest, including
songs written by Willie like
Night Life and Healing
Hands of Time.”
It’s been nine years
since singer, songwriter,
and multi-instrumentalist
Ron Knuth graced the
cover of Action Magazine,
and at age 67, there are
no signs that the world
class fiddler might be
slowing.
“The fiddle has always
been my signature instrument,” Knuth said, “and I
have played it with everyone from Johnny Bush
and Faron Young to Hank
Williams Jr., and George
Jones. But I was writing
songs when I first learned
the fiddle back there in the
woods of Wisconsin, and
songwriting has always
been a big part of my life
and career.”
Knuth said a Ray Price
fan in Uvalde urged him to
write the tribute titled
Songs Of The Cherokee
Cowboy.
“His name is Ken Garrett,” Knuth said. “He suggested the song and I
wrote it, and I gave him
half of the writer credits
because it was his idea.”
And it was, in Knuth’s
mind, the just way of doing
business.
“I know what it feels like
to have someone steal
one of my songs,” Knuth
said. “That’s why I register
everything I write with
B.M.I. before I do anything
else.”
Knuth first came to San
Antonio in 1972 to work
with Johnny Bush and his
Bandoleros Band. And his
admiration for Price dates
way back to Wisconsin
where Knuth recorded
Price’s song Soft Rain in
the 1960s.
“It was that recording
that led to Bush giving me
my first job in Texas,”
Knuth said. “A steel guitar
player I knew had sent
Bush a copy of that
recording.”
Knuth recalls his first
meeting with Price at
Willie Nelson’s studios at
Luck, Texas. It was there
that he played Soft Rain in
a recording session with
Price, Willie, Bobby Flo-
San Antonio singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Ron Knuth is recognied as one
of the world’s greatest fiddlers
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I just underwent a colonoscopy and joined
Facebook in the first week of last month, two life impacting experiences that have left me borderline batshit
crazy and wondering what the hell I’m doing in this 21st
Century.
Since Facebook is still unfurling and unfolding
on the Mac computer I call the Devil Box, we will now
make the colonoscopy our first order of business here.
This little procedure brings to mind a San Antonio rock band formed in San Antonio in 1981 by Gibby
Haynes and Paul Leary. They dubbed their band The
Butt Hole Surfers, and they were quite successful touring all over the country.
The colonoscopy also recalls a pet raccoon I
had when growing up on the South Llano River near
Junction. I called the little coon Roscoe, and I will never
forget the prodigious dumpings which followed his ingestion of two chocolate pies my grandmother had left
to cool on a screened back porch.
Butt Hole Surfers
Gibby Haynes and Paul Leary have no legitimate connection to the procedure called colonoscopy.
It was just the Butt Hole Surfers band name that lodged
in my mind as I prepared for my little jaunt to the San
Antonio Digestive Disease Consultants Endoscopy
Center on Northeast Loop 410 for the roto-rooter job
that found me fiddle fit and cancer free.
Butt Hole Surfers, for some reason or another,
brought into focus the little camera which went creeping
through my lower extremities after an assistant to Dr.
Ricardo Hernandez gave me the shot that put out my
lights. The procedure turned out to be a painless interval
of conked out bliss. I felt nothing, saw nothing and heard
nothing until I came awake to see the doc and my grinning wife Sharon.
The harrowing part was the prep work which
precedes a colonoscopy. It’s a thundering, splattering,
commode busting explosion of the bowels, and here is
where my pet coon Roscoe comes into the mental picture.
After scarfing down my grandma’s pies, Roscoe
was a study in gastroenterological powerlessness. With
a mixture of chocolate meringue and hackberry seeds,
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the little varmint decorated the screened porch, half of
the house, and most of the yard, and I was to really
know what the cedar choppers meant when they alluded to someone who “shit like a pet coon.”
Scoping for cancer
For those who might not already know,
colonoscopy is a test that allows your doctor to look at
the inner lining of your large intestine (rectum and
colon). The doc uses a thin, flexible tube called a
colonoscope to look at the colon. A colonoscopy helps
find ulcers, colon polyps, tumors, and areas of inflammation or bleeding. During a colonoscopy, tissue samples can be collected (biopsy) and abnormal growths
can be taken out. Colonoscopy can also be used as a
screening test to check for cancer or precancerous
growths in the colon or rectum (polyps).
The colonoscope is a thin, flexible tube that
ranges from 48 in. (122 cm) to 72 in. (183 cm) long. A
small video camera is attached to the colonoscope so
that your doctor can take pictures or video of the large
intestine (colon). The colonoscope can be used to look
at the whole colon and the lower part of the small intestine.
Before this test, we must clean out the old colon
(colon prep). Colon prep takes 1 to 2 days, depending
on which type of prep the doctor recommends. Some
preps may be taken the evening before the test. And the
medics tell us that, for many people, the prep for a
colonoscopy is more trying than the actual test.
And this is the understatement of the ages. The
word “trying” is a true euphemism, and as I geared up
for my colonoscopy, I came to know how Roscoe the
raccoon must have felt as he discharged those mountains of foul smelling hackberries and chocolate pie.
In my case, though, it wasn’t chocolate
meringue pie that detonated the expulsion bomb in my
gut; it was two Dulcolax laxative pills, followed by an evillooking gallon jug of something some cruel bastard in
the
medical/pharmaceutical
fields
christened
GoLYTELY.
You drink half a gallon of this poop potion the
evening before the colonoscopy procedure, and the
other half gallon the next morning. The GoLYTELY mixture will make you go, go, and go some more, and there
is no going lightly about it.
You won’t go lightly
For those wanting to shed a few pounds of
water weight, I highly recommend GoL YTELY by the
gallon jug. It would not be advisable to take the stuff,
however, prior to inviting guests over for dinner.
A quick look on the internet revealed this bit of
advice: Plan to stay home during your prep time since
you will need to use the bathroom often. The colon prep
causes loose, frequent stools and diarrhea so that your
colon will be empty for the test. The colon prep may be
uncomfortable and you may feel hungry on the clear liquid diet. If you need to drink a special solution as part
of your prep, be sure to have clear fruit juices or soft
drinks to drink after the prep because the solution tastes
salty.
I had thought that it would be after the fist fight
and the foot race before I would subject myself to a
colonoscopy,
but there is a serious side to all of this and I would be
remiss if I didn’t get to the real point.
Colon cancer killed three of my friends--John
Morgan, Garland Wenner, and guitar ace Chris
Holzhaus. We staged a benefit concert for Chris before
he died, and Delbert McClinton and Augie Meyers were
just two of the heavies who played that show.
Holzhaus’s last words
All of my friends who died had colon cancer in
the fourth stage, and I’ll never forget the last words that
Holzhaus spoke on our final meeting before his death.
He said, “Please go get checked.”
So we will now put Roscoe the raccoon and the
Butt Hole Surfers on a back shelf. Good for a few
laughs, but there is a serious message here.
I did get the colonoscopy, and my wife Sharon
is next. I’m grateful that I came through it with good results, and I do like to joke about the procedure. But I
know what John, Garland, and Chris would say to anyone of the age to be tested. Get it done.
Knuth’s Ray Price tribute was from the heart
Ron Knuth continued from page 4
res, and others.
“Ray was an incredible
musician,” Knuth said. “I
guess he was my favorite
singer of all time, although
I have known and worked
with some of the best.
George Jones, of course.
Darrell McCall was another. Darrell is one of the
most consistently good
vocalists I have
ever
known. I don’t think I have
ever heard Darrell sing
bad.
And Price was just a legend in his own time. He
was dying of pancreatic
cancer, but kept right on
singing until a week before
his death. And he was
singing his ass off until the
very end.”
Yet another singing influence on Knuth was
Hank Thompson.
“He did a bunch of
songs with silly lyrics,”
Knuth said, “but there was
something about Thompson’s voice I could never
resist. He just resonated
with me.”
Ron Knuth has written
numerous songs, and he
has recorded and produced albums with everyone from the late David
Zettner, Hank Singer, and
Frenchie Burke, the result
being some 15 cds to his
credit.
The fiddle has always
been Knuth’s main instrument, but he is adept on
guitar, 5-string mandolin,
8-string mandolin, banjo,
and button accordion.
“Sometimes I carry four
or five instruments with
me to a gig, and sometimes I take only the fiddle,” Knuth said. “It
depends on the show and
who I may be playing
with.”
Musicians who have
recorded Ron Knuth
songs include Willie Nelson, Barbara Fairchild,
Darrell McCall, Johnny
Bush, Little Joe Hernandez, George Chambers,
The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Bobby Flores.
The legendary country
music fiddler Johnny Gimble is both a friend and an
idol to Knuth.
When reminded that
Gimble once placed him in
a category with some of
the worlds greatest fiddlers, Knuth said, “Well,
maybe, and maybe he
was just trying to be nice.
But Johnny has always
been my hero. He is living
now in a nursing home
near Waco.
“I have a letter I received from Gimble in
1972 in which he talks of a
bunch of young rockers
coming out of Ohio who
seemed to be interested in
western swing,” Knuth
laughs. “He was talking
about Ray Benson’s up
and coming Asleep At The
Wheel. Johnny has always
said that all fiddlers are
sumbitches. He would say
that sumbitch can play his
ass off, or that sumbitch
can’t play a lick. But good
or bad, they were still all
sumbitches.”
In a December, 2005
article, Knuth recounted
his first meeting with
Johnny Bush and the
Randy’s Rodeo gig that
kick-started his long music
career in Texas.
“I heard our gig being
promoted on the radio as I
drove into San Antonio,”
Knuth told us back in
2005. “I’ll never forget the
experience. When I pulled
up in front of Bush’s
house, future fiddling
friend John Schatenburg
walked out to meet me.
When Bush recorded his
original cd Green Snakes
On The Ceiling there were
four fiddles on the record-me, John Schatenburg,
Shorty Lavender, and
Johnny Gimble. And that
was really the beginning.
Gimble had always been
my idol, and here I was
fiddling with him on a
Johnny Bush album. Man,
it just don’t get any better
than that.”
After graduation from
Fall Creek High School in
Wisconsin, Knuth joined
the Air Force at age 17,
returning later to his
hometown where he
started writing music.
From 1972 until 1976,
Knuth worked with Bush.
In 1976 he went to
Nashville with Darrell McCall where he teamed with
steel guitar player Dickey
Overby in Faron Young’s
band.
“Young said on national
TV that he was letting one
of his fiddlers go,” Knuth
recalls. “But the truth is I
quit Faron to start working
with Hank Williams Jr.” It
was with Williams that
Knuth developed his close
relationship with bassist
Larry (Big Larry) Patton
and drummer Larry (Little
Larry) Robeson.
Patton is now married
to Slim Roberts’ daughter
Pam, and the two live in
Nashville where Big Larry
does studio session work.
Robeson is a close friend
of retired Trinity Baptist
Church paster Buckner
Fanning. Little Larry drives
for the preacher a lot, and
still works with various
bands.
Knuth and the two Larrys were with Hank
Williams Jr., for about a
year before he fell off a
mountain in Montana, almost dying in the process.
Continued on page 8
Ron Knuth with daughter Tia. He played her
22nd birthday party last month at the Baja
Barbecue Shack at Canyon Lake
Knuth sings with old friend Patsy Brown at
his daughter’s birthday party
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Saddest song Ron ever wrote
Ron Knuth continued from page 7
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for a few months in New
Mexico before coming to
San Antonio where they
joined with Claude (Butch)
Morgan to form the Buckboard Boogie Boys.
When the talk turns to
unsung heroes and musicians who have never really been afforded their
just due, Knuth can’t say
enough about George
Chambers.
“George has been here
since water, and I was
damn lucky to fall in with
him when Hank fell off that
bluff,” Knuth recounts. “I
have worked with George
as the backup band for all
of the Willie Nelson/Darrell
Knuth displays the Willie Nelson/Darrell
Royal golf gournament patchjes he collected while playing the storied event
over the years
• 8 • Action Magazine, October 2014
Royal golf tournaments,
20 of them or more, and I
am richer from my friendship and association with
George.
“Most people don’t realize that George Chambers has been training
world class musicians for
years. Preston Buchanan
was a George Chambers
bassist before he went to
work for Charlie Pride.
And Randy Reinhardt,
known more now for his
steel guitar expertise, was
a George Chambers
piano player before he,
too, joined the Pride band.
A lot of people don’t know
that Randy tap-danced on
the Ted Mack Amateur
Hour when he was fives
years old. David Zettner,
who recorded the album
Out On A Mesa with me,
also worked with Chambers before getting with
Willie Nelson, and Willie’s
longtime bass player Bee
Spears got his early training under George Chambers.
George
has
recorded a dozen of my
songs, and I would venture to say that none of us
could ever repay everything George has done for
us.”
Ironically, it was Willie
Nelson working for Johnny
Bush back during the
hard-to-curry years when
Nelson’s house burned to
the ground in Ridge Top,
Tennessee. And Knuth
was with Bush’s Bandoleros when Nelson
joined the Bush road
show.
“Willie rode with us for
a while, getting off the bus
to sing Beatles tunes
mostly, and I can recall
him literally living in a Bandoleros uniform,” Knuth
said. “He didn’t own a
stitch of clothing at the
time. Everything he had
burned in the house fire,
and I recall loaning him a
pair of shoes he needed
to go into some town. All
he had was a pair of
thongs. I have a picture of
him at home that he gave
me, signing it, ‘Thanks for
Ron Knuth is more than a world-class fiddler.
He is an unselfish pro who has dedicated his
life to making other musicians sound at their
very best
loan of the shoes.’”
Knuth lives happily
near Canyon lake with
wife Riel. Their daughter
Tia just turned 21.
He still works regularly
with Johnny Bush, and he
has been a familiar sight
on stages with Augie Meyers, Nelson, McCall, John
Arthur Martinez, Bobby
Flores, and Chambers.
As Bush has been
seen lately throwing in
with some of the new
country studs like Randy
Rogers and Reckless
Kelly, Knuth has been
right there with the new
breed and the hordes of
new fans they bring with
them.
“I played on songs
Bush did with Randy
Rogers called
Troubador and All The
Rage In Paris,” Knuth said,
“And I will be backing
Bush on a new album he
is doing with Reckless
Kelly. And I think we will
also be recording with the
relatively new outfit known
as Cross Canadian Ragweed.”
While Knuth is ready
for any challenge the new
genre of
so-called
“red dirt country” might
present, he will never get
more than a short golf
shot from his Ray Price,
Willie Nelson, and Darrell
McCall roots. And he will
always remain loyal to his
friends, both the old ones
like George Chambers
and the younger ones like
Bobby Flores who have
impacted his life and career.
“Certainly, I consider
Johnny Gimble as one of
my major fiddle influences,” Knuth said. “But
there are others who have
played major roles in my
development. Hank Singer
is one of the best fiddlers I
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Wrong, Stoeltje
Anger and disgust
were the reactions of recovered alcoholics who
read Melissa Fletcher
Stoeltje’s self-serving Express-News article last
month on alcoholism and
addiction.
As a relative newcomer
to the program of Alcoholics
Anonymous,
Stoeltje violated the defining tradition of the AA program which has saved the
lives of untold millions of
alcoholics.
The woman is either ignorant of one of AA’s
major tenets, or she has
arrogantly anointed herself as a qualified spokes
person for the millions of
AA members whose very
lives have depended upon
the program’s Eleventh
Tradition.
Short form of the
Eleventh Tradition in the
AA Big Book reads thusly:
Our public relations
policy is based on attraction rather than promotion;
we need always maintain
personal anonymity at the
level of press, radio and
films.
This simply means that
no AA member who works
in radio, print media, or
films (TV included) should
publicly pronounce himself or herself a member
of Alcoholics Anonymous.
This is precisely what
Stoeltje did.
Longtimers in the program of Alcoholics Anonymous know that the 12
traditions of A.A. are every
bit as important as the 12
steps which are the spiritual bedrock of this incomparable recovery program.
Every tradition has a
vital importance, and the
Eleventh Tradition of AA
was designed to protect
the membership from the
Melissa Fletcher Stoeltjes
and other hotdog media
egos who think they can
shit on the movement with
impunity.
In her article in the
September 7 issue of the
Express-News, Melissa
Fletcher Stoeltje went galloping through a litany of
psychobabble bullshit on
the alcoholic’s “higher
brain” and
what she called “disorders
of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual” used by
the medical profession.
She wrote: What I’m
asking for is simple understanding--that addiction is
cunning, baffling, and
powerful (she lifted this
line from the AA Big
Book), for scientifically
demonstrable reasons. It’s
not as simple as just putting the bottle down. Complicating
things
is
addiction’s signature calling card--denial--a frustrating facet of the illness
that tells sufferers they’re
not sick.
Yes, some alcoholics
and addicts--a minority-do make the choice to get
sober and make efforts to
stay that way. I did it myself almost four years ago.
But it wasn’t easy. It took
long, hard work with a
sponsor and many Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, gatherings I continue
to attend so as not to lose
the precious gift of sobriety. To those who argue
some compulsive drinkers
either grow out of it or can
simply quit on their own-I’d wager most of them
weren’t real alcoholics to
begin with.
And, yes, there are
many alcoholics and addicts for whom 12-step
programs--based as they
are on spiritual principles
and complete abstinence-simply don’t work. AA has
been life-changing for me,
a journey whose benefits
have extended far beyond
my ability to put down the
nightly wine glass...
With less than four
years of sobriety, Fletcher
Stoeltje is considered a
newcomer in the program
of AA, and if she really
does have a sponsor, that
guiding force should have
taught Melissa that “personal anonymity at the
level of press, radio, and
films” pertains directly to
people like her.
AA oldtimers all know
the danger of media panjandrums who show their
collective asses by writing
and braying into a microphone about their “amazing recoveries” in the
program of Alcoholics
Anonymous.
The experienced survivors know that a vast
majority of AA newcomers
fail to stay sober more
than a few years, and
when a media figure who
has violated his or her
anonymity gets drunk in
public, the death knell
sounds for many others.
Should Stoeltje get
drunk and fall on her ass
in front of the Tobin Center, there would surely be
some suffering alcoholic
newspaper readers who
would say that AA doesn’t
work because Stoeltje had
publicly identified herself
as an AA member before
cratering out in public
view.
And it could damn well
happen, Ms. Stoeltje. If
you have, indeed, bothered to read the Big Book
of AA, you must know that
all alcoholics have only a
daily reprieve based on
the maintenance of their
spiritual condition.
Stoeltje’s assertion that
some AA members are
not real alcoholics would
probably be met with
hoots of derision in many
recovery groups. There
are recovered AA members in San Antonio with
20 and 30 years of sobriety who have spilled more
alcohol on their shirt fronts
than Melissa Stoeltje ever
consumed in her nightly
wine suppings.
These are the AA stalwarts who have found
both God and life through
the 12 steps and 12 traditions, and they seethe with
disgust and anger when a
media mare like Melissa
Stoeltje decides to publicly
wipe her ass with the
anonymity clause of AA’s
Tradition Eleven .
If Stoeltje ever bothers
to learn AA’s traditions,
she might do well to also
read Step Eleven’s long
form which says:
Our relations with the
general public should be
characterized by personal
anonymity. We think AA
ought to avoid sensational
advertising. Our names
and pictures as AA members ought not be broadcast, filmed, or publicly
printed. Our public relations should be guided by
the principle of attraction
rather than promotion.
There is never need to
praise ourselves. We feel it
better to let our friends
recommend us.
There is a reason why
the movement is called Alcoholics Anonymous, and
AA members like Melissa
Fletcher Stoeltje are not
carrying the message.
They are spreading the
disease. And ditto for the
well-meaning ignorant like
Alpha Home CEO Jullie
Wisdom Wild, who wrote a
letter to the Express and
News praising Stoltje for
dumping her “personal
journey of sobriety” on
readers of the newspaper.
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Bobby has
Ron Knuth Continued from page 8
perfected
have ever known, and I
would be remiss in not ac- this style until he plays it
knowledging Bobby Flores better than Tommy Jackas another. And then there son himself, and I would
was Howdy Forrester who have to rate Bobby Flores
worked with the late Roy right up there with the
Acuff and Johnny Gimble.” world’s greatest fiddle
The fiddle is really two players.”
When he is not writing
instruments, Knuth said,
songs, pitching his songs
the fiddle and the bow.
“I have known profes- to other recording artists,
sional fiddlers who lived producing, restoring vinand died without ever get- tage fiddles and guitars,
helping
young
ting both parts of the in- and
strument mastered,” Knuth prospects like teenage
said. “I have always been singing sensation Victoria
blessed to have both the Celestine, Ron Knuth remains what he has been
fiddle and the bow.”
Knuth restores both for most of his profesguitars and fiddles, and he sional life: A fiddle for hire.
“It’s who I am and what
has a fiddle collection of
some 20 instruments. The I do,” Knuth said. “I love
importance of playing the fiddle, but I feel like
what he calls “double songwriting may really be
stop” fiddle cannot be the most important thing I
do.”
over-emphasized.
He ticks off some of the
“Hank Singer plays
what we call double stop songs he has written and
fiddle. So does Gimble. had recorded by other
This means, basically, that artists.
“Like I said, George
both lead and harmony
are played at the same Chambers has recorded a
time. Another great double bunch of my songs,” Knuth
stop fiddler was Tommy said. “They include tunes
Jackson. He played on a like Marie, High In The
lot of Price’s stuff,” Knuth Willows, Rosie, New
Country Singer, Sweet
said.
He went on to say, “I Judy Blue Eyes, Railroad
can’t say enough good Man, and Tomorrow We
things about Bobby Flo- Will Do It Again.
“The Flying Burrito
res, either. Bobby learned
to play fiddle by listening Brothers also recorded Toto me and Hank Singer, morrow We Will Do It
but he took it all up an- Again, and there is the litother notch when he tle polka song I wrote
started
studying
the called Marie. Mingo SalTommy Jackson style. divar and George Cham-
bers both recorded it, and
Willie recorded it with Little
Joe y La Familia. Every
conjunto band in South
Texas is familiar with
Marie.”
Knuth has recorded fiddle albums with both Hank
Singer and Frenchie
Burke, and his Out On A
Mesa cd was recorded
with David Zettner. And a
10-song
cd
Knuth
recorded with George
Strait drummer Mike
Kennedy on drums was
named Living In The 90s
before the name was
changed to Writer’s Night.
“This is my favorite cd,”
Knuth said. “It was done
high tech in the studio,
and the musicians also included Allen Chapman on
bass, and Randy Reinhardt on piano.”
Knuth did yet another
instrumental album with
guitar
player
Chris
Reeves.
“It was called Things
That Swing,” Knuth said. “It
included songs like Fly Me
To The Moon and Ain’t
Misbehaving.”
The business has always been tough for a
hired fiddle on the road,
but Ron Knuth does the
best he can with it.
“Everybody in Nashville
is moving to Texas,” Knuth
said. “There is no work
there. People are working
for nothing. And it ain’t
much better in Austin. Musicians on Sixth Street are
hiring out for forty or fifty
bucks, and that is why I
don’t work over there. I still
manage to make a hundred a night or more, and
I have some special gigs
that pay me really well. I
count my blessings.”
One of Knuth’s better
paying gigs is an annual
affair in Ruidoso, New
Mexico called the Lincoln
County Symposium..
“The symposium is
sponsored and promoted
by an old DJ named Larry
Scott,” Knuth said. “It’s the
second week in October.
Scott hires a great variety
of musicians and he pays
us well, plus we have
rooms and other service. I
have seen up to 21 fiddlers on that stage at one
time, and I have been able
to play with such great
performers as Floyd
Domino, Red Stegall, and
the Gatlin Brothers.”
Another highlight for
Knuth is playing and traveling with West Texas musician/rancher
Craig
Carter, who owns a
12,000-acre ranch near
Marathon.
“I have traveled to Europe with Ken Carter, and
George Chambers and I
both played on his album,”
Knuth said. “He has a really fine voice, and one of
the interesting things
about Carter is his family
horse concession in the
Texas Big Bend. He acts
as a hunting guide, and he
furnishes
horses
for
movies and TV shows.”
When Knuth talks
about being “blessed,” he
is speaking in literal context.
Like
fellow
singer/songwriter Billy Joe
Shafer, Knuth is a Christian Lutheran, and he
makes no bones about it.
“I am one of those guys
who respects and loves
Jesus Christ,” Knuth said.
“I hear people today who
mock the so-called Jesus
Christ freaks, people like
me and others who believe. Well, here’s what I
have to say on the matter.
Jesus Christ lived on this
earth the way I think we
should all live. He stayed
out of everyone else’s
business, he walked
across this earth helping
people and not really
bothering anyone, and still
he was killed. If everybody
lived like Him, nobody
would be getting killed,
and we would all be able
to live together in peace.”
For aspiring musicians,
and especially those with
songwriting
ambitions,
Ron Knuth says: “If you
want to be a songwriter
, you must apply yourself.
When I wrote the Songs
Of The Cherokee Cowboy,
I ate it...slept it..and drank
it...from daylight until dark.
I went to bed thinking
about it, and I got up thinking about it, and finally it
all came together.”
Knuth writes mostly
from personal experience
and the people he meets
along his road of life.
A new song he is working on is titled The Fire Of
Love, and Knuth has a
catch in his voice when he
describes the
abject misery and loss
which inspired him to write
the song.
“It’s the saddest situation I have ever written
about,” Knuth said. “It’s a
true story about this wonderful prince of a guy who
was forced to leave his
family because of what we
know today as spousal
abuse. In this case, it was
the wife abusing the husband, and her incessant
bitching finally drove the
guy to rent a tiny room in
a cheap hotel where he
stayed until he ended up
dying there.”
The fiddler-songwriter
said the tune Fire Of Love
gives real meaning to the
adage he remembers
from his youth in the
woods of Wisconsin: It’s
hard to kiss the lips at
night that chewed your
ass all day.
At age 67, Ron Knuth
figures there is still plenty
of fire left in his furnace.
“I love people, and I
love what I do, whether it
be backing some deserving young musician with
my fiddle, or writing a new
song,” Knuth said. “And
the fact that so many wonderful musicians have
recorded my stuff just inspires me to keep writing
with nothing but gratitude
in my heart.”
Scatter Shot Continued from page 11
Alpha Home is a treat- The Brass Balls Drums
ment center for women line to this area.
which is sponsored by
“These drums were inTrinity Baptist Church, and vented and produced by
the facility is definitely a Cliff Scott in Buda, Texas,”
worthwhie institution.
Urbano said. “All that I can
But Alpha official Julie really say is that Brass
Wild should study the tra- Balls Drums are abditions
of
Alcoholics solutely fantastic and
Anonymous before gush- mind-blowing in that they
ing forth with words of look and sound like no
praise for inflated newspa- other drum ever made.”
per hacks like Ms. Stoltje.
The San Antonio Drum
Exposé
will be from 8 p.m.
Drum Exposé
until
midnight
on October
Local drum master
27
at
the
Squeeze
Inn on
Urban Urbano is the drivGeneral
McMullen
Drive.
ing force behind San AnThat’s
West
San
Antonio,
tonio’s first Drum Exposé,
a free concert and drum and, fittingly, the legdemonstration of sorts endary West Side Horns
that is designed to intro- will serve as the backup
duce what is known as band while an array of
area drummers sit in to try
out the complete set of
Brass Balls Drums.
“All drummers are invited,” Urbano said. “We
want as many of them as
possible to experience
these sensational new
percussion instruments.”
Members of The West
Side Horns who will play
the drum show include Urbano on drums, Louie
Bustos and Henry Rivas
on sax and vocals, Sauce
Gonzales on keyboards,
and Jack Barber on bass.
Jartse Tuoninon will be
a guest guitarist with the
group.
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adorn their outer shells.
Brass Balls Drums
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Soid brass was our metal
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We feel it improves the
overall tone of the drum.”
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Starting at 6 p.m., the
festivities will include food,
comedy and music.
Barbecue
will
be
served at 6 p.m., followed
by a comedy show at 8:30
p.m. with Joan Riviera,
who performs comedy
every Satureay at Marty’s.
Karaoke music will begin
at 10 p.m.
The anniversary party
will follow a halloween
party on October 31.
5pm. The address is 326
W. Legion, Converse,
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is free.
Event sponsors ask all
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Please
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the canteen will be
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beverage. We will have
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available. The association’s band will be on
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Marty’s Party
Cathy Hopper will celebrate her 30th anniversary
Steel guitar jam
San Antonio Steel Guitar Assocation will have
the next jam session October 5 at the William Randolph American Legion
Post #593 from 2pm until
Open Daily
BAR &
LIVE MUSIC
VENUE
830-885-4605
Hwy 46 at Sunvalley Dr.
Hours of Operation
Home. Grow
wn. Music.
4 N Main Ave. - 78205 - 21
425
10-224-1010 / 800-822-5010
5010
1530 Babcock Rd. - 78229 - 210-525-1010 / 800-237-5010
5010
www.alamoomusic.com
Layway Now
for
Christmas
$100
00 OFF
FF
3PM - Midnight M-F
11PM - 1AM Sat
Noon - 10PM Sun
OCTOBER BAND SCHEDULE
FRI
SAT
FRI
SAT
FRI
SAT
FRI
SAT
FRI
3
4
10
11
17
18
24
25
31
RICKY ADAMS BAND
MAD CHAD KARAOKE
JOE MORENO BAND
MAD CHAD KARAOKE
2 WAY STREET
MAD CHAD KARAOKE
LONE STAR PICKERZ
LOUDER THAN WORDS
BOBBY JORDAN &
RIDGECREEK
FRIDAY BAND - 7:30
SATURDAY KARAOKE - 8:00
KARAOKE WEDNESDAYS
7:30-11:30
• INTERNET
JUKEBOX
• BIG DANCE
FLOOR
• DOMINOES
• HORSESHOES
• 72” TV
• SMOKE FREE
ROOM
• LIVE MUSIC
APPETIZERS
COLD BEER
WINE & SETUPS
FREE WIFI
Our beer is colder than
your ex-wife’s heart
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NOT AVAILABLE ON FRIDAYS
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