Kenny Penny - Action Magazine

July, 2010
Kenny Penny
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Private, secure
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There would be
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guards would have
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The “criminals”
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• FEATURES •
Old folks & Inmates................. 3
Ashlee Rose.............................7
Kenny Penny............................8
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With the dog days of summer upon us, and with
nothing better to do than engage in a little more political incorrectness (known in some quarters as “raghead bashing”), I feel compelled to make some small
comment on subjects of a Middle Eastern persuasion.
Number 1: Iranʼs new law against teaching music
in private schools, and a new dress and conduct code
for women university students which prohibits jewelry,
loud laughter, high heels, and what the ragheads consider “immodest clothing.”
Number 2: The peril-fraught and insanely stupid
business of American hikers traipsing around such
geographical death traps as the Iraqi and Iranian
border, an unforgiving land of camels and burning
sands too hot even for the feet of Phoenix, Arizona
residents.
At the risk of sounding crass, uncaring, and as
redneck backwoods as any Texas hillbilly you might
encounter, I would like to know what percentage of
gain, enlightenment, or possible personal uplift any
American could get by hiking in Iraq or Iran.
The American hikers
I refer, of course, to the three young American
hikers who maintain they mistakenly crossed from
Iraq into Iran where they were captured and jailed on
charges of spying. They include Sarah Shourd, 31,
Shane Bauer, 27, and Josh Fattal, 27, all old enough
to know the difference between hiking in Arizona and
Iraq or Iran. In the Arizona desert a hiker runs the
risk of stepping on a diamondback rattlesnake which
might bite him or her. On the border separating Iraq
and Iran, a stroller faces the possibility of stepping
on a bomb which might well blow him or her into
kingdom come.
The Big Bend National Park in West Texas offers
a far safer and more scenic area for good wholesome hiking fun than any place in the Middle East.
And some might wonder what these Americans were
doing in Iraq in the first place.
Shourd, Bauer, and Fattal were captured and
hauled off to a Tehran jail some 10 months ago, and
their mommies were allowed to visit them last month
in a well-publicized exhibition of motherly concern
and subservience.
To plea for the release of their errant offspring,
these women disgusted the non-Muslim world
by covering their heads in traditional rags as they
bowed and scraped in mewling supplication before
the camel jockey captors of their children.
A danger to thousands
Did it ever occur to Shourd, Bauer, or Fattal
that the people in Iraq and Iran might not want them
tromping around in hiking boots and backpacks? And
did it ever occur to these American idiots that their
presence on the Iraq-Iran border might inadvertently
endanger thousands of American lives?
The American prisoners will not be harmed. Instead, they will be used as trading chips for Iranians
imprisoned in the United States, potential terrorists if
not already convicted zealots who could go back to
their business of making bombs and hatching plots to
blow up American airplanes as soon as they are freed.
The very culture of that region should both repulse
and repel any straight-thinking American. Along with
newspaper accounts of our poor little American hikers,
we read of Iranʼs new dress code for women students
in private schools, and a ban on all music and musica
instruments. Such codes and bans have already been
a part of the state schools in that country.
Iran has barred private schools from teaching
music, saying it clashes with Islamic values, following
a push to enforce moral standards that may lead to a
national dress code for all university students.
Contacted by telephone from London, Ali Bagherzadeh, head of the Iranian Education Ministry, said,
“The use of musical instruments is against the principles of our value system.”
Hopefully, no instruments
So, hopefully, our American hikers didnʼt have a guitar or harmonica with them when they were arrested.
Iran has set aside $1.5 billion to promote moral
conduct, including enforcement of its dress code for
women. This, according to Interior Minister Mostafa
Mohammad-Najjar, is to solve the cultural and social
ills in society.
His comments followed the introduction of a code
of conduct at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
that bans loud laughter, nail polish, high heels and
immodest clothing for both women and men.
Mr. Mohammad-Najjar said the police will deal
firmly with violators of Iranʼs laws on moral conduct.
Ali Bagherzadeh, the education minister, said
teaching music in state schools has always been
prohibited. So the new music ban in private schools
should do away with all music in the countryʼs educational system.
A school that teaches music may be permanently
closed and its director barred from opening another
school.
The ban applies to the use of all instruments, including those played in traditional Iranian music, Bagherzadeh said.
Short sleeves are taboo
Under the Shiraz Universityʼs dress code, women
must wear loose, long coats in subdued colors that go
below the knee. Men arenʼt permitted to wear jewelry,
except for a wedding ring. Short sleeve shirts are taboo, and trousers must be loose.
Shoes should not have pointed toes, make noise,
or have heels higher than 1.2 inches (so much for the
Tony Lamas). Smoking, sandals, and makeup are also
banned.
All of which brings us back to our little trio of hikers
who need to know a little bit about politics in the Middle
East and the folly of tromping around on hostile lands.
Iranian Intelligence Minister Haidar Moslehi has let
the cat out of the sack. Maintaining that the hikers status as “spies is a clear and obvious case,” he strongly
hinted that a prisoner swap might be in the making.
Moslehi said, “a prisoner exchange would be possible once Washington made a similar humanitarian
gesture toward Iranians in U.S. custody.”
Humanitarian gesture my ass. A clod head hiker
for a terrorist is a pretty good trade from a ragheadʼs
political vantage point. And our errant Americans
should know that the ragheads would already have
mailed their heads to their mamas in paper sacks if
they didnʼt figure on a good trade.
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• 6 • Action Magazine, July 2010
Ashlee Rose turns 21
with plans to enter
American Idol trials
Donʼt look now, music fans, but child singing
and songwriting sensation Ashlee Rose has
grown up.
Sheʼs still pretty, explosive on stage, and
wide-eyed with wonder
and anticipation, but the
kid is now a woman.
“Iʼm 21 now,” Ashlee
Rose said, “and I hope
to be the next American
Idol.”
Her 21st birthday
was celebrated June 25
in New Orleans.
Prior to her trip to the
Big Easy, Ashlee Rose
said she was planning to
audition for the American
Idol singing competition.
“I really believe I
have a chance to win it,”
she said.
We first caught Ashlee Roseʼs act when she
was 15 or 16. At the time,
she was getting a lot of
attention from San Antonio musicians who were
attracted both by her
singing and writing talent
and her youth.
“I know a lot of people were wondering back
then if I would stick with
it,” Ashlee Rose said.
“There should be no
doubt now. I love to write
and perform music, and
I believe that performing
solo with just an acoustic
guitar is my very favorite
thing to do.”
We first encountered
the teenager Ashlee
Rose at the Cove on Cypress Street. And thatʼs
where we found her performing last month.
The progress she
has made is dramatic.
Her voice is both
powerful and controlled,
and she displays a stage
pizzazz that few performers twice her age
could muster.
An
accomplished
guitarist who started with
the instrument when she
was 10, Ashlee Rose
uses the flat top box like
an extension of her personality.
Rare is the musician
who can work alone on a
stage and hold the rapt
attention of a crowd for
more than an hour.
Ashlee Rose is one
who can.
Alternating between
Americana covers and
songs from her Iron
Roses CD, Ashlee Rose
works a crowd like she
has been doing it for
years.
The rap is infectious, and she manages
to stoke audience participation in the fashion
of Ray Wylie Hubbard,
never letting a dull moment of silence to slip in
between numbers.
“I recall playing right
here in the Cove when
I was 11,” Ashlee told
her audience. “A guy
wearing a lot of leather
walked up and handed
me a bunch of hundred
dollar bills. I donʼt recall
how many, but there
were a bunch. I asked
him what he wanted to
hear, and he said nothing. Then he walked out
of the place without ever
hearing a note. He just
told me to have a good
time with the money.”
Noting, with a short
laugh, that this bird has
never reappeared, Ashlee Rose said:
“Here is the deal for
tonight.. Iʼve got a tip
jar up here and CDs for
sale for $10. If you want
to buy one of the CDs,
that would be great. But
if you donʼt want to buy
one, I have a special offer. Just put a $10 tip in
the jar and I will give you
the CD.”
As
her
adoring
fans start for the tip jar,
Ashlee Rose launches
into another high energy number that brings
people to their feet and
dancing.
Ashlee Roseʼs Iron
Roses recording features the guitar work of
Elijah Zane, who also
did some engineering
on the project as well. It
was produced by Chris
Lieck.
Zane is a guitar slick
who adorned the cover
of Action Magazineʼs
July 2009 issue. His
full name is Elijah Zane
Echeveste, and he leads
a trio called the Elijah
Zane Experience. “He is
wonderful,” Ashlee Rose
said. “He really did some
awesome things on the
CD.”
Her tune Let It Rain
from the Iron Roses CD
was voted best song in
the 2007 San Antonio
Music Awards competition, and Ashlee Roseʼs
band with guitarist Will
Owen-Gage, Niko Laven
on drums, and Tyler Phillips on bass was picked
by Seventeen Magazine
as one of the top 10 teen
rock bands in America.
“Iʼm still working
some with Will,” Ashlee
Rose said. “Niko is now
with the San Antonio
Rose Live show, and I
believe that Tyler Phillips
is working as the music
director at the Gershwin
Theater in New York.”
A new CD is in the
works, a release date
expected this year.
“Chris Lieck will also
produce this one,” Ashlee Rose said. “I will
have more of a hand in
the production.”
Ashlee Rose comes of age
And as with the first
project, all songs on the
CD will be originals.
“I call it organic folk
pop,” Ashlee Rose said.
Other Ashlee Rose
accomplishments
include an appearance
on the main stage at the
Kerrville Music Festival.
She was grand prize
winner on the international “Battle of Guitar
Gals” in 2007. Also: Horizon Award winner, Just
Plain Folks International;
Rising star Award winner
Texas Music Awards;
Top 10 finalist in international songwriting competition; Urban Music
Competition, winner; Old
Settlers Music Festival,
youth competition winner; Most requested artist on Radio North Carolina, 2006 and 2007.
Listing
influences
that range from Sheryl
Crow and Katherine
Dawn to Susan Gibson
and Bob Dylan, Ashlee
Rose stays active and
close to her roots.
Just last month, she
joined guitar buddy Will
Owen-Gage in a benefit at the Majestic Theater for the North East
School of the Arts.
Ashlee Rose explained: “This is the specialty arts high school
that Will Owen-Gage
and I both attended. It is
located on the Robert E.
Lee High School campus and has been open
for 13 years. The school
ran into budget problems
last year and was in danger of being closed. We
want to do everything
we can to keep this from
happening.”
In addition to her
plans for an American
Idol audition, Ashlee
Rose has auditioned for
the upcoming comedy
musical Hairspray at the
Woodlawn Theater.
“The story takes
place in the early ʻ60s
about a chubby girl
named Tracy Turnblad
who wants desperately
to be on the Corny Collins Show, a show where
teens show off their
dance moves to the latest popular songs,” Ashlee Rose says. “I hope to
play Amber Von Tussle,
the ʻmean pretty girlʼ
who is the most popular
(and hated) girl in school
and the lead dancer on
the Corny Collins Show.”
At the end of the
summer, Ashlee Rose
plans to go camping in
Nashville with her mother in a travel trailer they
call Hotel Francesca.
On July 8, she will
play The Tin Roof Steakhouse in Boerne, The
Cove on July 9, and Local Coffee in Stone Oak
on July 10.
Ashlee Rose said
another band is in the future, but for now it will be
solo performances and
work on the next CD.
Action Magazine, July 2010 • 7 •
S.A. Rose Live show
reflects music savvy
of pro who directs it
The late Jerry Reed
was always guitar picker
Kenny Pennyʼs hero.
“I could not believe
my ears when I was first
invited to audition for a
backup guitar position
with Reedʼs band,” Penny recalls.
Penny, who now
serves as music director of the San Antonio
Rose Live Band, knew
that guitar legend Jerry
Reed was looking for a
backup in 1974 when he
received a call from Ty
Corbett, Reedʼs drummer.
“Ty urged me to audition for the job,” Penny
recalls. “And I remember
telling him that he was
crazy. That there was no
way I could stand on the
same stage with a guitar
player of Jerry Reedʼs
caliber.”
Penny said Corbett
then set up an audition,
and that he failed to
show up out of fear.
“I just couldnʼt imagine me playing with Jerry
Reed,” Penny said. “But
Corbett was determined.
He called again, told me
that the band was going
to rehearse over at Jerry
Reedʼs office, that Reed
was out of town, and that
he would like for me to
come sit in.”
As Penny jammed
with Reedʼs band, Jerry
was listening from an
adjoining room. And
when he walked into the
rehearsal room, Penny
said, “I almost died of
shock.”
He didnʼt die. He
accepted the backup
guitar job Reed offered,
and he worked the road
with the guitar icon for
the next 18 years, playing numerous shows
with Jerry, recording with
him on albums like Hot
Stuff, Jerry Reed sings
Jim Croce, and Half and
Half.
Kenny Penny and
Jerry Reed co-produced
the musical scores for
Smokey and the Bandit, Hot Stuff, and Gator.
And they formed an inseparable friendship that
lasted until Reedʼs death
at age 71 in 2008. Penny
said Reed suffered from
both emphysema and
Parkinson disease.
“We were really
close, and Jerryʼs death
was a real loss for me,”
Penny said. “He was
one of the greatest guitar players in the world,
and he was a really special person.”
To appreciate the
Jerry Reed influence on
Kenny Penny, just buy a
ticket and attend one of
the San Antonio Rose
Live shows which are
held every weekend at
the refurbished Aztec
Theater in downtown
San Antonio.
A truly humble man,
Penny is one of those
softspoken instrumentalists who can flat-asses
make an electric guitar
do his talking. He flat
picks and finger picks,
making the instrument
gallop with influences
which recall the blinding
strokes of Merle Travis,
Chet Atkins, and Jerry
Reed.
Listen to Penny work
on the old Aztec stage,
and one can readily see
why Reed hired him.
“Chet Atkins was
Jerryʼs hero,” Penny
said. “And while most
people are unaware, Jerry Reed wrote 90 percent
of the Chet Atkins instrumental arrangements.
They recorded together,
• 8 • Action Magazine, July 2010
and they worked closely
together for a number of
years.”
A world class instrumentalist in his own right,
Kenny Penny wrote one
instrumental recorded
by the late Chet Atkins,
and when not appearing
with Reed, he has toured
with the likes of Kenny
Rogers, Dotty West,
Nat
Stuckey,
David
Houston, Ray Stevens,
Lynn Anderson, Johnny
Russell, Sylvia, Charlie
Louvin, Vern Gosden,
Terry Bradshaw, Billy
Joe Spears, and Bobbie
Bare.
A versatile music
man, Penny can switch
from guitar to fiddle without missing a beat, and
San Antonio Rose Live
audiences are often
treated to the twin fiddles
of Penny and SARLʼs
main fiddler Rodney
Smith.
“I have tried to be
ready for what ever is
needed,” Penny said. “I
play lead guitar, dobro
guitar, baritone guitar,
mandolin and fiddle on
occasion.”
A resident of Nashville where he owned
and operated his own
recording studio when
not working the road,
Penny said he is glad to
be back in Texas.
“I guess you could
say I lived in Nashville,”
Penny said. “I really just
slept there between road
jobs and recording sessions. But Iʼm a native
Texan. I was born in a little place called Mabank
near Dallas, and Iʼm really happy to be here in
San Antonio.”
Itʼs a long way from
Mabank to the big auditoriums and TV stages
upon which Kenny Pen-
S.A. Rose Live music director Kenny Penny
ny has performed.
His TV appearances
include Hee Haw, Austin
City Limits, The Barbie
Benton Special, Dinah
Shore, the Statler Brothers Yesteryear, Merv
Griffin, and even a Starsky and Hutch episode
with Lynn Anderson. And
Penny has performed
hundreds of times on the
stage of the Grand Ole
Opry in Nashville.
Pennyʼs official bio
notes that he was born
into a gifted musical
family. His childhood
days were rich with music roots. Kenny played
at home with father Billie
Joe on mandolin, uncles
Tommy and Bobby, both
on guitar, and Virgil on
upright bass. Aunt Pauline and Grandma Penny served as vocalists.
These happy times were
to change. When Kenny
was 10, his father died,
and his mother remarried shortly afterwards.
Kenny said he and
his brother Mike drifted
away from the family, eventually running
across their dadʼs 1950
flat iron mandolin packed
away in a closet.
From memories of
watching their father
play, the Penny boys
soon learned to play
some songs. The rest is
history.
Kenny began playing
local roadhouses, and
met world famous steel
guitar player Paul Franklin while playing a Detroit
gig with Jack Scott.
Franklin asked if he
would like a Nashville
gig.
“That was it,” Kenny
recalls. “I asked, ʻWhen
do I leave?ʼ“
Within days, Ken-
ny Penny was playing
the Grand Ole Opry as
a new member of Nat
Stuckeyʼs band.
In 1980, and between gigs with Jerry
Reed, Kenny joined
Dottie West and Kenny
Rogers for a five-year
tour. They played huge
crowds in the U.S., including the Superdome
and Dallasʼ Reunion
Center. During that tour
Kenny had the privilege of backing George
Burns, who was also
touring with Rogers.
With Dottie West he
played Wolf Trap, and he
received a standing ovation in Carnegie Hall for
the classic fiddle breakdown Orange Blossom
Special.
“That entire tour
had a rock star feel to
it,” Penny recalls.” We
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gospel show on KKYX
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The new Sunday
morning show will run
from 9:30 a.m. until
10:30 a.m. with veteran
radio personality Roy
Holley acting as host.
Officially titled The
Texas Pride Barbecue
Old Time Gospel Show,
the Sunday radio hour
will feature a wide variety of guests and gospel
music.
John
Goodspeed,
writer and photographer
who is helping with Texas Prideʼs promotional
activities, says the focus
here will be on the fastgrowing phenomenon of
cowboy churches.
Like these informal
churches where coats
and ties are seldom
seen, the Texas Pride
radio show will be laidback and without formal-
ity.
“Itʼs not going to be
churchy,” Holley said.
“Weʼre not going to
preach a sermon or pray
like other Sunday morning shows. This is about
entertainment and information that people can
use with inspirational
stories from guests.”
Cowboy
churches
can receive coupons
members can sell for
$20. The coupons can
be redeemed at Texas
Pride, and the church
will keep half of all proceeds.
This is the same
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Judson ISD Special
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attract talent which will
cover the music scene
from many different
genres and eras.
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viewing our Idol package that we are looking
for some people who
can really sing,” said
Billy Dʼs owner Shelby
Hodges.
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athon elimination song
fest is 9 p.m. on July 12.
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tracks will be used for
the music, contestants
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have a monitor showing
the lyrics.
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karaoke contest,” Hodg-
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By Jacques E. Strap tonio back court without who feed them.
Action sports analyst
With the July trade
deadline for the NBA rapidly approaching, I would
like to address rumors
that Tony Parker will be
swapped out for another
player.
It ainʼt about to happen, Spurs fans.
The buzz around
town that Parker and TV
star wife Eva Longoria
Parker would welcome
a trade to the New York
Knicks is pure bullshit.
I donʼt know about
Eva, but some savvy people close to the Spurs organization say that Tony
Parker is happy here and
wants to remain a Spur.
The glitz and glitter
of New York life might
appeal to Eva, but Tony
probably wouldnʼt know
how to function without Spurs coach Gregg
Popovich chewing on his
ass.
The human water
bug from France came to
the Spurs as a greenhorn
teenager, and Popovich
has hand raised him to
be the NBA All Star that
he has become.
Spurs majority owner
Peter Holt would consider
some sort of LeBron-like
dream offer for Parker,
but Holt does not relish
the prospect of a San An-
the lightning-quick guard.
And
coach
Pop
knows what might well
happen if Tony were
traded. The prospect of a
healthy Parker, still in his
basketball prime, coming home to haunt us for
years to come does not
appeal to Popovich.
All of which brings us
to the outlook for Spurs
basketball in the fall.
Parker, for the first
time in years, has eschewed the notion of representing France in the
summer world championship competition. And the
same for Manu Ginobili,
the proud papa of twins
who has said that the Argentine team will have to
get along without him this
summer.
Both Parker and Ginobili have indicated that
they need rest. Both players say they want to be
ready for the next NBA
season without any hint
of a nagging energy. And
Ginobili has indicated he
needs some time to help
wife Many with the new
babies.
If the truth were
known, both Parker and
Ginobili have wisely decided to forego further
high school Harry allegiance to their respective countries because of
pressure from the people
The Spurs organization pays these two players millions, and it goes
without saying that both
Holt and Popovich are
sick of Parker and Ginobili hobbling back to
the Spurs with injuries
incurred
representing
France and Argentina in
world competitions.
This past season was
a big disappointment for
Spurs leadership and
fans alike.
Ginobili had a spate
of good games with Tim
Duncan sputtering while
Parker limped from one
injury to the next.
Richard
Jefferson
turned out to be a big
disappointment, but this
could turn around this fall.
Jefferson was beginning
to show flashes of promise as the season ended.
Sweeping Dallas in
the first round was a balm
for Mark Cuban haters,
but the ensuing sweep at
the hands of Phoenix was
an ingnominious windup
to a season that left much
to be desired.
The Spurs should
never be swept by any
team, and that includes
Boston and Los Angeles. So now it is time for
the annual mid-summer
Jacques Strap assessment of the San Antonio
Spurs, including an edu-
cated prediction
for the season to come.
A lot of us must feel
the heat before we see
the light, and Iʼm figuring
that both Tony Parker and
Manu Ginobili have got
the message:
Since the Spurs are
paying them millions,
they had best stay here
and earn their money.
Tim Duncan has
slowed a step or two,
but with a healthy Manu
and Tony he could spring
back to his old form.
DeJuan Blair is an
explosive power in the
paint who can do nothing
but get better. And guard
George Hill is the best
thing to happen to the
Spurs in several years.
Hill has all-star qualities.
Then there is the big
“if.”
Iʼm talking about Brazilian center Tiago Splitter, a Spurs draftee who
has been playing for
Spain in European competition.
I have it on good authority that Peter Holt is
prepared to loosen the
purse strings once again
to get the 7-foot Splitter in
a Spurs uniform.
The Brazilian is said
to be the best center in
Europe with a wing span
wider than a great condor.
So go figure.
With the “big three”
healthy and hitting on all
cylinders, a 7-foot Bra-
zilian to spell Tim and
add even more power
in the paint, and steady
improvement by George
Hill, Richard Jefferson,
and DeJuan Blair, guess
what might happen.
The Spurs might well
make a title run. But even
if they donʼt win it all, you
can bet the farm that the
team will do better than
they did this last season.
The western conference
playoffs at the very least,
and with NO sweeps on
the record.
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“Penny” Cont’d from pg. 8 and instrumentalist. He the instrument.”
played every gigantic
venue in the country, it
seemed. Just monster
auditoriums and halls.”
Pennyʼs first Nashville recording company
was called Spectrackular Sound. The company
produced
recordings
and thousands of demos for both songwriters
and vocalists, including
Johnny Russell, Buddy
Cannon, Vern Gosdin,
and Lee Anne Womack.
Later, Penny changed
the name of his studio
to Penny Recording and
moved to Music Row in
Nashville.
Penny is married
to a lady by the name
of Heidi, and he is very
proud of his 10-year old
stepson, Kollin. He also
has two daughters by a
previous marriage, Kim,
a nurse in Tyler, and
Kandy, who does social work for a church in
Denton.
As music director of the San Antonio
Rose Live production,
the 60-year-old Penny
is doing what he has always done as a sideman
strives to make everyone in the band, including the vocalists, sound
as good as possible.
“I co-produce the
San Antonio Rose show
with Steve Hennig,”
Penny said. “Steveʼs dad
owns the Heart of Texas
Music store in Austin.
We select the material
to be used by the band,
arranging the vocals and
songs to be used.”
Penny canʼt say
enough good things
about the SARL cast.
“The girls, ReBeca
and Brennen Leigh,
continue to amaze me,”
Penny said. “They are
both wonderful, and they
get even better by the
day. Jerry Maynard, now
our lead male vocalist,
is out of this world. He
does George Jones like
George. With his brother
Steve, we have a solid
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Rodney Smith, our fiddler and harp man, can
play just about any instrument known to man,
and steel man Tommy
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and we are all shot.”
A.A. celebrates its
75th year of existence
with the big San Antonio gathering which will
be in the Alamodome.
Some activities will take
place in the Henry B.
Gonzalez Convention
Center. As San Antonio
Winnerʼs Club A.A. oldtimer Pete the Mailman
was fond of saying: “It
ainʼt a disgrace to be an
alcoholic. It is only a disgrace to be an alcoholic
who never does anything about it.”
Penny said, “I am
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and I couldnʼt be working with a greater bunch
of people.” The great instrumentalists, known in
the trade as “sidemen,”
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their pay and making
beautiful music in the
process, but always in
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crowd pleasing vocalist.
Old pros like Kenny
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eventually found the Featuring Katherine
common solution. Most Dawn, and five other acA.A. members refer to complished LadyBugs
that solution as “a higher musicians, the band repower.”
leased its debut EP last
An A.A. member month, a recording titled
in San Antonio by the First Rodeo.
name of Herman put Katherine
Dawn
it well when he said: Davis-Hicks heads the
“There are no big shots band with guitar and voin A.A., and there are no
cals. Other LadyBugs
include Melinda (Queen
B) Day, bass and vocals;
Madge Rashell, mandolin and vocals; Ginger
Pickett, guitar and vocals; Susan Taylor, Harmonica, keyboards and
vocals; and percussionist Wave Harless.
Watch Action Magazine for a future Texas
LadyBugs article, complete with photos of all
band members.
ketplaces are the largest
flea markets and festival
complexes in Texas with
locations in Dallas/Fort
Worth and Houston.
Each year, more
than 5-million shoppers visit these combined markets, hunting
bargains and taking in
festivals such as the
Texas
Championship
Native American Pow
Wow, Prairie Dog Chili
Cook-off, Bayou City
Cajun Festival, and the
Traders Village Summer
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Vendor spaces for Concert Series.
San Antonioʼs Traders Village Marketplace Blues at Texas 46
are reportedly going Texas 46, the popBulverde-Spring
like hotcakes as the fall ular
opening of this gigan- Branch area bar and
tic new attraction ap- grill which has been
open for 20 years, will
proaches.
Thousands
of be bringing back the
square feet of concrete blues starting in August.
have been poured and With live music feathe first of the marketʼs tured on weekends and
steel vendor buildings some
Wednesdays,
and giant open-sided blues music will be ofexpo buildings are now fered the first Saturday
of the month.
being erected.
The 290-acre prop- Texas 46 manager
erty will be opened in Kathy Stebbins said
stages. It is located at popular blues artists
Old Pearsall Road and such as Jimmy Spacek
Southwest Loop 410.
and Catherine Denise
Traders Village Mar- will be featured.
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