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Old Time Music Community ~ Ghost Town Cafe & Saloon ~ Terlingua, Texas


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A day of driving and short hikes into Big Bend National Park on the Castolon Road resulted in our first roadrunner sighting and much marvelous mountain and desert scenery. The visual scale  here is so very different from the east coast mountains. The mountains here are younger relatively and the geology feels like it is still happening: Hearing rocks fall off the face of a butte and clatter down the detritus pile. Our first time in the southwest desert and would like to return when there has been some moisture in the system. Very brown, very dry: the rare pocket of oasis green where a spring or water source supports life.

The end of the day found us in Terlingus’s Ghost Town Cafe and Saloon listening to an old time music circle: very friendly people, very inclusive, all ages all stripes.

A spaghetti and fresh green salad dinner was served up for all: very nice!

Lots of musicians in Terlingua: pupil and teacher, protege and master, aficionados and hangers-on, fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin players.

The locals gracing the Ghost Town Cafe and Bar with their music were Mark Lewis, organizer of the Monday night gatherings, Jeff Brady, Sunny, Taylor, and Tim Callahan, with Austin from Florida wishing he had his fiddle along.

Taylor, the 12 year-old held his own, with the ol’  boys calling out the next tune whenever asked.

Jeff Brady played a classic 1926 vintage banjo ( wish I had written down the name).

He also brandished a custom built cherry red amplified acoustic guitar.

This man, and rightly so, was proud of his musical instruments!

There was a story with each.

 

Posted by bigdawg on December 27, 2011
6 Comments Post a comment
  1. 12/30/2011
    Frann

    You do take some great pictures! It was lot’s of fun that night and hope to see you on Monday night again if your close to Terlingua.

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  2. 01/1/2012

    Beautiful pictures!

    Wish I had been there to hear you all play…maybe will be able to in the not too distant future.

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  3. 01/4/2012
    Glenda Luttrell/Mark Williams

    Frann’s chicken tortilla soup and the fresh tamales this week were so-oooo dang good!!!!!!! Twice as many musicians as last week and so much fun and love goin’ around!! All inclusive with the tunes and with the crowd lookin’ on and listening. Mondays @ the Ghost Town Cafe/Saloon just “feel right”. : )

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  4. 04/22/2013

    Texas Road Trip 2013 : Jeff Brady and Nick Cooper

    Jeff Brady and Nick Coope play “Fire On The Mountain” written by lyricist Robert Hunter and composed by drummer Mickey Hart.
    Recorded on March 16, 2013 in Ghost Town
    Terlingua, TX

    Reply

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