Don Edwards' death

[Bob Wright]

I just learned of the death of Don Edwards, who died last October. Edwards was one of the best singers and guitarists of his time and I will miss him. I do have a couple or more of his albums. Of the ilk of Tex Ritter and Johnny Cash, more or less. One of my favorites of his was "The Railroad Corral."

Great singer, westerner, and Texan.

Bob Wright

 

[eveled]

I hadn’t heard of his death either.

Just curious what a man born in New Jersey has to do to become a Texan?

 

[ediogenes]

I don’t know Don Edwards (sorry, Bob, I’ll look ‘im up), but Jerry Jeff Walker was born in, of all places, New York, but there weren’t anyone more Texan than him. I, myself, wasn’t born in Texas, but I got here as quick as I could. All ya’ gotta do is git a hat and some boots ‘n’ git after it. Learnin’ t’ two-step don’t hurt.

 

[pawncop]

Don Edwards was an amazing songwriter and performer. Did not not know of his death. So many songs are the product of his talents.

 

[ediogenes]

I asked Alexa to play me some of his music. Awe-inspiring.
I also commend the following article:
http://www.forthoodsentinel.com/lei...cle_484d41e0-fb27-580a-a968-27e59708cf96.html

 

[Tenbore]

WHAT?!!! No. All my favorites are dying. C.W. McCall, Johnny Cash, Ian Tyson, Loretta Lynn. I hope Red Steagall stays around for quite a while yet.

I just read that Don Edwards passed last October. I had not heard a word about it.

 

[bowzette]

I wasn't aware of his death either. I lived in Huntsville, TX for 22 years moved about 2017. I was the president of the Sam Houston Folk Festival for 12 years. This is a great festival and crafts and reenactments of the life and times of Sam and Margarite Houston. A significant portion of the festival is music-acoustic music. One year we had Don as one of the performers. He was just great! If you are ever passing through Huntsville, it's 70 miles north of Houston on I45, stop at the Sam Houston Museum.

 

[Bob Wright]

I hadn’t heard of his death either.

Just curious what a man born in New Jersey has to do to become a Texan?

Well, I'm a Tennessean, born in, and sill live here, but I got my Texan card from the capitol in Austin. But then, Tennesseans have always been held in high respect in Texas.

Bob Wright

 

[eveled]

The turn this thread has taken, has reminded me of the time I almost moved to Texas.

Me and one of my buddies had jobs lined up in Fort Worth at a BMW dealership. I think we were 19. Had it all planned out then at the last minute it fell apart.

I have always wondered “What if”? By now I suppose I’d be a Texan too.

 

[jimbo1096]

Lived in Waco for 2 years, does that count. Don't have a Texan card though.

 

[Johnny-Baseball]

Well, I'm 6th generation Texan (1842). But history says there are NO true Texas natives. Not even the Indians.

The Indians (primarily Apache and Commanche) followed the buffalo heards north to Nebraska in the summer, then south into Mexico in the winter. For most, Texas' climate is too hot in the summer, too cold in the winter, and always unpredictable.

As I tell recent movers into Texas, "If you WANT to be a Texan, then you ARE one. The only true native Texans are prairie dogs."

 

[LGC42]

I drove across the Texas panhandle on I40 once so I guess I'm a Texan.

 

[Armybrat]

Well, I'm a Tennessean, born in, and sill live here, but I got my Texan card from the capitol in Austin. But then, Tennesseans have always been held in high respect in Texas.

Bob Wright

Well, that’s because Tennesseans gave Tejas Sam Houston and others who helped build the Republic.
(I was born at Fort Benning, but am happy my dad retired here from the Army).

 

[Wyandot Jim]

Well, I'm 6th generation Texan (1842). But history says there are NO true Texas natives. Not even the Indians.

The Indians (primarily Apache and Commanche) followed the buffalo heards north to Nebraska in the summer, then south into Mexico in the winter. For most, Texas' climate is too hot in the summer, too cold in the winter, and always unpredictable.

As I tell recent movers into Texas, "If you WANT to be a Texan, then you ARE one. The only true native Texans are prairie dogs."

I do believe there were quite a few tribes along the Gulf Coast and East Texas that didn't travel much.
Being a 6th Gen is great. Do you have your family history??
DIL is also many gen Texan in fact John William Smith the first Mayor of San Antonio who also served twice as a messenger during the Siege of the Alamo is a relative of hers. Her Dad still ranches around Lulling

 

[Johnny-Baseball]

I do believe there were quite a few tribes along the Gulf Coast and East Texas that didn't travel much.

Yes, there were. In North Texas (where I live) - aka The Peters Colony, one of the very first enclaves authorized by the Mexican government - the open prairies were feeding grounds for buffalo herds. Apache and Commanche followed those herds. Caddo occasionally hunted here but tended to live further east towards East Texas' Piney Woods forests. Caddo were semi-agrarian who lived in semi-permanent dwellings, but the Apache and Commanche were exclusively hunters/foragers.

The weather in this part of Texas is, alternatively, very hot, very cold, very rainy, very dry, very windy, or stormy with tornados. [Example: the winter of 1979-80 was the coldest in 30 years. The summer of 1980 was the hottest ever - with 70 consecutive days over 100 degrees. Then the winter of 1980-81 was the coldest in over 50 years. The Farmer's Almanac later pronounced that the average temperature for 1980 was exactly equal to the historical norm.] Thus, agrarian Indians tended not to settle here, choosing to live further east in the Piney Woods, up along the Red River (Texas/Oklahoma border), or further south (towards San Antonio).

A distant relative is the Army general after whom Fort Worth was named. To my knowledge our extended family were the only Worths in North Texas as recently as the early 1950s.