Egad! It's already Sunday?! Detective @KermitTheFrog is on the case to solve the Mysterious Disappearing Weekend! He'll have it solved just in time for next weekend.
Willie Nelson at home in Tennessee, late 1960s. His house subsequently burned down on Dec. 23, 1969. While the fire was raging Willie dashed in to retrieve two things: Trigger, his guitar, and a pound of marijuana. Willie later said "I wasn’t being brave running in there to get my dope — I was trying to keep the firemen from finding it and turning me over to the police.” But it was in the aftermath of this fire that Willie decided that fate might be telling him that Nashville wasn't the place for him. He moved back to Texas, hooked up with Waylon Jennings, got the hippies and the rednecks together at the Armadillo World Headquarters, and launched the outlaw country movement.
When you encounter others on a trail, offer a friendly “hello” or a nod. This helps create a friendly atmosphere. If you approach a trail user from behind, announce yourself in a friendly, calm tone. Yelling “that chipmunk stole my car keys, run for your lives” is not helpful.
We've been psychedelically groovtastic and kaleidoscopically rockin' the music scene since 1975 – and our tempo ain't slowin' down! We've got a new @DisneyPlus series coming soon AND our van just got an oil change! Can you dig it?!
The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day:
In 1969, while staying at the Fort Worther Motel in Fort Worth, Waylon Jennings saw an advertisement in a newspaper promoting Tina Turner as a "good hearted woman loving two-timing men", a reference to Ike Turner. Waylon went to talk to Willie, who was in a middle of a poker game, about writing a song based on that phrase. Joining the game, he and Nelson expanded the lyrics as Willie's wife Connie Koepke wrote them down.
Waylon recorded the song for the first time as the title track of his 1972 album "Good Hearted Woman" and the accompanying single peaked at number three on the Billboard's Hot Country Singles. In 1975, Waylon remixed the song, adding vocals from Willie Nelson (and adding fake crowd noise to give it a live feel) for the album Wanted: The Outlaws!. The album cemented the pair's outlaw image and became country music's first platinum album. This remixed version of the song peaked at number one on Billboard's Hot Country Singles and at number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song won the Single of the Year award in the 1976 Country Music Association Awards.
I too like to scream for attention. Despite the frog's small size, the male spring peeper's peeps into the void in search of companionship can be as loud as a CAR HORN (100 dB) and reach frequencies near a smoke alarm (2.9 kHz)