I first met Tex at a summer camp in Connecticut. I think I was 11 and he was 12. He was big even then. His sister was at the camp too-- Buck's Rock Work Camp. Saw him again at Washington Square in the 60s-- I guess he was in the Navy then. When I started to do the folk circuit in the mid 1970s I bumped into him again while in Toronto. He once visited me in Philadelphia and completely freaked out my (unfreakable) girlfriend by wandering around stark naked. What a sight! When we got together we talked little of music, and spent our times discussing homeopathic medicine and guns. I never got to get to Toronto to go shooting with him, but I did drag him out to the range one time when he came to Philly. Yeah... saw him in "the Freshman" but also in the great bio-pic of Hank Williams "The Show He Never Gave" with Sneezy Waters as Hank. Hadn't heard from him since I moved to NZ five years ago. Miss those 4am phone calls, and the great times over chinese food. Heard about his passing from Saul, who told me to check on-- so-- here I am.

He sure was one of a kind-- in the large economy size!

Winnie