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LOUANN’S – PART 2
"Ann Bovis talked to The Colonel once about booking Elvis in the late '50's but he wanted too much money. Same thing with the Beatles. ...
LOUANN’S – PART 3
"I really loved working at Louann's, all those bands and people. It was really exciting! We would go in every morning, stack the chairs...
MICHAEL NESMITH
The first time I saw a show advertised in Dallas Morning News, Bo Diddley was gonna play at Louann's. Because by that time, I had heard...
KIRBY ST. ROMAIN
I was playing with The Roadrunnners at some school and they had a special guest, Scotty McKay. And we backed him up. After the gig, he ...
JERRY SMITH, KASUALS, WOO BROTHERS
We did a lot of openings too about that same time. We opened up for The Beach Boys, Sonny & Cher – God, there's so many, I don’t ev...
JOURNEY TO TYME, THE MARK LEE STORY
My mother and dad went to some party at the Lamplighter Motel. Kenny and his band were playing poolside and Mom got a business card and...
DOWDY FERRY ROAD, THE JOHN FORD COLEY STORY
Back when we were kids, we would to go down to Dowdy Ferry Road years ago with our pistols. And we would shoot at the cottonmouths. We ...
‘MEMORIES OF DALLAS’ SPONSOR OF ‘TEXAS POP 50’, 2019!
Okay, okay, you meant to go to the 1969 but life got in the way… you were overseas fighting in that crazy Asian war, the wife wouldn’t ...
DROWNING IN A WHISKEY RIVER
So Whiskey River opens. Gatemouth Brown, Rusty Wier, Gary P. Nunn. We also had Ray Wylie Hubbard and Michael Martin Murphy. I had dinne...
A FALSTAFF AND A GLOBE
Long before the idea of Louann's came around Lou and Ann Bovis were running the Falstaff Tavern in the English Village. Not too long af...