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...became the bestselling album of the year. Jimmy Buffett: Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes (ABC). Countrified Caribbean and laid-back Southern rock blended together like a well-mixed Margarita. Waylon Jennings: Ol' Waylon (RCA). Country music's amiably gruff outlaw puts heart into honky-tonk-and Luckenbach, Texas, squarely on the map. The Phil Woods Six (RCA, 2 LPs). A master saxman and his friends hotfinger their way through familiar jazz standards and lively originals. James Taylor: JT (Columbia). Sweet Baby James shows the old homespun ease and comes up with a Handy Man delight...
...heart of Texas music beats in the capital city, its soul is in Luckenbach, a sleepy hamlet 65 miles away. After 128 years of near total obscurity, the three-family town was put on the map abruptly by Waylon Jennings' hit recording. Luckenbach, Texas sped to the top of the country-music charts, and the album it came from, Ol' Waylon, became Jennings' fourth gold LP within a year...
With one house, a crumbling blacksmith shop, a dance hall and a combination post office-saloon, Luckenbach belongs on an MGM back lot. Its rise began in 1970 when a slow-talking rancher and raconteur named Hondo Crouch bought up half the town, supposedly because of his unhappiness with the saloon's irregular hours. Soon the place was a laid-back, beer-stocked afternoon retreat for country musicians. Among them: Jerry Jeff Walker, who brought old pals like Willie Nelson by for a visit and in 1973 recorded his Viva Terlingua album there...
...matter that ol' Waylon and the song's two writers had never been to Luckenbach. The tune captured the essence of Texas' country music-a return to the basics. "It's a symbol, really, of something that people are retreatin' to," says Nelson, easily the most visible member of Austin's musical colony...
Willie's large Austin coterie hopes some of this success rubs off. Already a dozen local performers have signed recording contracts, and the migration of musicians into Austin continues. It all seems a long way from Luckenbach. Or at least the old Luckenbach. These days the town is a thriving weekend tourist spot, which does brisk business in T shirts and bumper stickers. Cardboard NO PARKING signs lean against the trees; nothing is nailed down because the nails, like the signs, have been taken by tourists. Each week a couple of weddings are performed under the big cypress tree...