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the wheel has come a full circle - last week Natalie Maines was honored with the West Texas Walk of Fame in her hometown of Lubbock along with another Lubbock native Jo Harvey Allen. She accepted with mixed feelings.

Interview with Natalie Maines
http://m.lubbockonline.com/filed-online ... #gsc.tab=0



with her father Lloyd Maines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHt4VHZ4Sgo

Lubbock, TX has an interesting history in Americana - Buddy Holly, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock, Terry Allen, Joe Ely, Al Strehli, Angela Strehli are all from Lubbock.

Two songs about Lubbock

Lubbock or Leave it (Dixie Chicks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cty1b7mmuDA

Two Bit Texas Town (Angela Strehli)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=488lVxZFIWw

She gets her voice from her uncle Kenny Maines of the Maines Brothers Band - Kenny, Lloyd, Steve and Donnie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsJTeK11MdU


The last word on Lubbock belongs to Townes Van Zandt.....writing about Joe Ely

He's the only person I ever met who really did run away and join the circus. If I was from Lubbok (sic), I would, too.

Lubbock or Leave It

Words and music by Emily Robison, Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines and Mike Campbell. (c) Woolly Puddin' Music (BMI) - Wild Gator Music (ASCAP)

Dust bowl, Bible belt,
Got more churches than trees
Raise me, praise me, couldn't save me
Couldn't keep me on my knees
Oh Boy
Rave on down loop 289
That'll be the day you see me back
In this fool's paradise

Temptation's strong
(Salvation's gone)
I'm on my way
To hell's half acre
How will I ever
How will I ever
Get to heaven now

Throwin' stones from the top of your rock
Thinkin' no one can see
The secrets you hide behind
Your southern hospitality
On the strip, the kids get lit
So they can have a real good time
Come Sunday they can just take their pick
From the crucifix skyline



International airport
A quarter after nine
Paris Texas, Athens Georgia
Not what I had in mind
As I'm gettin' out I laugh to myself
'Cause this is the only place
Where as you're gettin' on the plane
You see Buddy Holly's face

I hear they hate me now
Just like they hated you
Maybe when I'm dead and gone
I'm gonna get a statue too.

Temptation's strong
(Salvation's gone)
I'm on my way
To hell's half acre
How will I ever
How will I ever
Get to heaven now

"Everything in the song is true. Hypocrisy is in every town all over the country. The difference is that Lubbock is Natalie's hometown. Some of the people of Lubbock tried everything they could to trash her because of her exercising her right to speak about her disapproval of our president. Other Lubbock people supported her.

"No matter what the subject, the naysayers are always the loudest. So there will be some people who hear this song and get all in an uproar. They'll hate it and feel that Lubbock has been scorned and misunderstood. The song will also make other people pause and think about what it says. Every word in the song is true. - Lloyd Maines

Interview with Jo Harvey Allen and Natalie Maines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NU7VaZ-MeY

another song about Lubbock by Joe Ely from the album Satisfied at Last ....

Not That Much Has Changed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRuo9EbtCtk