A one-two punch this month jogs our collective memory: Buddy’s 70th Birthday Bash will send you back to rock and roll’s heyday, with music historian Bill Griggs acting as narrator of Buddy Holly’s life and musicians Patricia Vonne, Tommy Allsup, and Johnny Rogers jamming in his honor. But these days, with most ears tuned to the sounds coming out of Austin and Houston, it’s easy to forget West Texas’s legendary contributions. The state’s musical psyche owes a lot to Lubbock, which has nurtured a wide swath of native talents and unconditionally welcomed creative outlaws.
Sep 29: Jones Hall, 615 Louisiana, Houston 71. Sep 28: Bass Performance Hall, 4th & Calhoun, Fort Worth 87. Sep 26: Bass Concert Hall, 23rd & Robert Dedman Dr, Austin 51. Of course, I could just take the darn shoes off. So I’m glad to get on solid Texas ground- although I haven’t worn high heels in forever, so I’m really worried about my feet more than anything. I’m donating my salary from these shows to the Pasadena Playhouse, a little ninety-seat theater in California that was just named in honor of my late daughter, Carrie, who passed away from cancer in 2002. My grandmother made me a gold wand out of a stick. I went to David Crockett grammar school, and the first time I performed, I was a blue fairy in a skit that we did on Pinocchio. I remember Joske’s department store, the stuffed gorilla in the window of the Buckhorn Saloon that just terrified me, and, of course, the Alamo-luckily, I didn’t have to fight in it. Last time I visited, the skate marks were still there, even though the people who lived there had tried to buff them out. So I skated in the hallway, which wasn’t quite level either. Back then my grandmother wouldn’t let me roller-skate in front of the house because the sidewalk was all crumbled up. We lived on West Commerce Street, and our old house is still there. Being a Texan is in your blood I’m not even trying to escape it. I’m looking forward to coming back to my home state. Is there any other celebrity so approachable? (She even called us herself-look, Ma, no handlers!-to schedule an interview.) Her candor has always been her strong suit, so we’re letting Ms. But she’ll be all ours once again this month for a quartet of appearances, or what she calls “conversations,” in which audience members are encouraged to stand up and shout out their inquiries to the comedic queen. Though she moved from San Antonio to Hollywood at age seven, we don’t begrudge California for nurturing one of our most talented exports.
YES, CAROL BURNETT IS A TEXAN, and in the most valid sense of the term (she was born here).
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