Luckenbach, Texas, not really a town but a very famous place for live music. Long ago it started out to be a town but never became an organized municipality . So it’s a place, sort of like Jonesville.
It is a Harvest Host site featuring live music, a couple small stores with tourist merchandise and a few days/week a burger stand. We just missed the food by 10 minutes. Our info said it was open today but did not say how long. OK, back to the camper for supper. Then on to the evening show.
The afternoon show was running while we browsed the stores. That had two performers. This evening ran for about 3 hours with 8-10 performers sitting on stage and taking turns singing. They tell the others what they would sing and in what key. Any others who wished would join in with music. Almost everyone had a guitar, one mandolin, one banjo and later one bass fiddle. All acoustic. All excellent musicians! They appear to be local and regional musicians who come here to play. Some have written their own material and some have some published music and commercial recordings.
We’ll see if I have enough cell signal to load up some video. (The Starlink is packed and so is the generator to run it)
Tomorrow we’ll hit the town of Fredericksburg and see what’s happening there. We know we need some groceries and pick up Rx.
On the road today it was a fine sunny day and a bit less hot than yesterday, topping out at 91ยบ. It was cool watching the changing landscape as we drove. Starting in the vast barren desert of West Texas and moving into the Hill Country, increasing diversity of plants out on the open ground. More trees, at first just more Mesquite and then more variety of trees. More creeks that actually had some water in them. More water means some actual grass on the open landscape without irrigation. Farms with sheep, goats, pigs, not just cattle. That’s the fascination with driving cross country. And towns are now 30 miles apart instead of 100.
This looks interesting!
Luckenbach:
License plates everywhere.
