Luckenbach, TX – Established 1847, Current Population 3

Tuesday night we spent a couple of hours in Luckenbach, TX, enjoying some good ol’ Texas Brew  (Lone Star Beer, known as the "National Beer of Texas") and some “pickin” by three performers strutting their stuff in the bar at Luckenbach.  Listen to this country song to see the genesis of our interest in this town.  One cannot travel in Texas without hearing and feeling this musical genre enmeshed in all that that you see and do, and Luckenbach has become the epitome of what this music represents - NOT the glitter and the gold, but the hard-scrabble life of the Texas Hill Country and the equally hard-scrabble life of the performers from this region who sing from their soul, though most would likely not rebuff a call to the big-time if it were to happen for them.  Luckenbach is a magnet to some, for others, it is a “this is it?” response.  We fall somewhere in between.  We went, we saw, we thoroughly enjoyed and reveled in the experience, but likely will not be returning for any of the many large-crowd draws to this iconic little Texas town.  It was the charm of the every-day, the unknown performers, the tiny-town atmosphere that captured our hearts and our delighted our senses.  Luckenbach is definitely on our list of “must do once if in the Hill Country of Texas” recommendations for fellow travelers.