Author: DC Duncan

Michael was larger-than-life, and sometimes amazed us with his antics…

March, 1978, back in Big D, we showed up at the Texas Music Awards at the sprawling Lone Star Ballroom…

We did our first concert at a festival at Lee Park; special guest, Randy Lee on sax. The crowd numbered in the thousands…

We were booked two weeks at the Big Country, owned and operated by Snuffy Smith…

Marching to the beat of two different drummers…

The new and final name for the band was ‘Django’, named after guitar legend Django Reinhardt…

I was somehow cast with a Country trio called the Country Truckers. (I enjoyed calling it the ‘Mother Truckers’…)

We were a cover band, a commercial dance band. And we put on a pretty good show…

People always come up to me and ask why I’m not in Vegas or touring with a national act…

Perhaps I’ll stand up and give Kirk the recognition he so deserves. Maybe a few funny anecdotes would be in order…

Backing up Kirk was fun — about as much fun you can have with your clothes on. And, man, could that boy play…

For the next several hours I called friends for information while watching this fantastical, private air show – the whole thing seeming more surreal by the minute…

In 1979, Peter Sellers starred in this satirical comedy-drama written by novelist Jerzey Kozinski…

I imagined that we’d sit around the kiva fireplace singing Christmas carols while enjoying the fragrant scent of burning piñon…

On March 2nd, I turned 74 (and my liver turned 92)…