Hondo Crouch was born John Russell Crouch in 1915 in Hondo, Texas.
In 1970, he and family friend Guich Koock went in together on buying Luckenbach, Texas — a little bend in the road with a dance hall, post office, and egg route that, a handful of years later, would come to represent getting “back to the basics of love” to a whole lot of people, thanks to Waylon Jennings’ 1977 hit named for a town he’d never even been to.
Per his daughter Becky’s book about him, Hondo, My Father, Crouch was the “clown prince” and mayor of Luckenbach as well as a rancher, philosopher, poet, music man, “Imagineer,” and “the funniest man in Texas.”
He was also Jerry Jeff Walker’s friend, and it’s hard, if not impossible, to imagine ¡Viva Terlingua! existing without him.
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