It is always a pleasure to receive comments from readers. This past month I was delighted to hear from an old friend in Sweden, Peter Lundberg. Hopefully readers will recall Peter’s account (in the May 2020 issue of TST) of his jazz and ragtime odyssey across the US as a young man. Peter made many other visits to our far shore and one such experience he generously recounted for me in a recent email. It seems he had an experience with a radio personality in Del Rio, Texas some years back. He was a young tourist and learned of old John Brinkley’s work, about which I wrote last month. He had visited a local bar, found a piano to play, and as Peter is prone to do, he began making friends and learning about local history. (Recall that Peter is an award-winning Swedish media director and producer with a distinguished career in television.) Here is his account…
Your recent in the Syncopated Times column brought back memories, from places where I played, (as a tourist) due to Bob Darch’s suggestions, in the seventies and eighties: Kearney, NE; Laredo, TX; Del Rio, TX. (See: Goat Glands, Border Blasters, and the Carter Family)
