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It was a ghost town of three people. So how did Luckenbach rival Nashville as the heartland of country music?

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It was a ghost town of three people. So how did Luckenbach rival Nashville as the heartland of country music?
In 1971, self-appointed mayor Hondo Crouch turned the Texan town into a rural respite for country stars. Soon it was immortalised in chart-topping songs – and became a symbol of a simpler American life In the summer of 1973, the US country singer Jerry Jeff Walker was in the middle of nowhere, recording his soon-to-be-classic album ¡Viva Terlingua!. A crowd was packed to the rafters in an old dancehall 70 miles west …
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