When I moved to South County to make my fortune with the Roadhouse, one of the major plans was to provide local music on as regular of basis as I could. From previous visits I knew this resource was available. What I didn’t realize and was thrilled to discover was that the music scene “back then” was as much a part of our community as the tortured landscape and muddy brown river. Music was everywhere, running the scale from the phenomenal, to the awful, to the bizarre. It was in the bars, on the porches, around campfires and liable to strike up anywhere. by Don McDowell    more »

(Photo of Judy Magers, "The Burro Lady," in Terlingua, 2002, by Bonnie Wunderlich)
Magers was, unwittingly, a highly public persona throughout West Texas, though she remained intensely private throughout her decades of walking the highways of the region, sleeping on roadsides and talking with locals mostly just enough to obtain the bare necessities. by Don McDowell, Fred Gossien, James Evans, & Bonnie Wunderlich    more »