Denardo Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ed Bass and Casey at the Governor’s Mansion
Casey and mentor and Form Master Father Bernard Marten of Cistercian
Casey, Dani, Haydee and my brother Michael Monahan in Nacogdoches.
Casey, Anita, Joseph, Dani and GOV. Rick Perry
Cindy Walker and Cousin Bill Hearne
Lisa Benbow Cameron from Benbow, California, friend for 46 years
a rare snowfall on the shed
Some of the women of Taskent
Casey and Catherine Melvin; she is what a public servant should be
Roky Erickson loved to receive mail. When he received unsolicited offers of “free” things, he would dutifully fill them out and send them back. This is a photo of the free keychain solicitation he responded too. He was excited to give it to me; he had three. Who knows what happened to the other two. His home in Del Valle had so much “stuff”that no one could keep track of it, including Roky. When he finally vacated that subsidized space it took weeks to clean up. No telling what how much cool Roky stuff was trashed. I cherish the yellow spiral notebook he gave me from this period. Although troubled, he still had a beautiful and kind mind. When Henry Rollins and I visited once he was stunned at the space and wrote a incisive essay about it. I’ll try to find it and post it when I can. Henry took photos, too. I never took photos of it. Made me too sad.
Sam Norris Allred and Kate Ludlow
Casey and Buddy Holly’s band The Crickets with Richard Luckett
My sister Megan and Joseph in Dallas
Marc Fort and George Strait
Junior Brown and his first guitar
Life long high school sweethearts Joe Nick and Kris
Joseph and Wolfgang Minor at Wolfie’s birthday party
Casey and the great gospel singer Yolanda Adams
Meadow, TX native Tom Copeland and Casey at the Adios, Bob Hudgins Party at the French Legation. Tom’s ability to get Hollywood BigWigs to film in Texas is legendary. He and Joseph Dial hired me to run the Texas Music Office
Casey, Cindi Lazzari, Layne Lauritzen, and Joe Preisnitz. I miss Cindi and Joe, good people
Ciarin and Joseph
Philip and his youngest grandchild, Elina.
Casey and the great Ty Gavin
Casey and Lloyd Maines pose as tough guys
Casey and my friend’s kid, Ciarin
one of the smartest things I ever did was insist that the Statesman hire Peter Blackstock as my successor as Live Music Listings editor
Joseph at Artisan Flooring outside Webberville, TX
A poem Cindy Walker wrote to me.
Casey, Jennifer and Rick Broussard. Everyone is happy because we all just ate a Dani feast
Another smart reporter with a huge heart, Guillermo Garcia.
Cindy Walker makes us an Ice Cream Sundae
Casey and Roky and a 2-headed-dog cake
Kathy and Terry Plemons and Joseph outside Casa de Luz after a great meal. Terry was a friend, a caver, and Terry Raines saved his life.
Emmylou Harris in my backyard 2011
Dani and Casey and Joseph at Snack Bar (1224 South Congress), one of my favorite Austin restaurants of all time.
Casey and a dear friend Bill Ham
Peter Monahan kayaking in the Blanco River
the house I grew up in on Meletio Lane
My father Albert Monahan and his brother Larry Monahan
My oldest friend Captain John McCormick and Sarah Palin
Grandma SueSue Bledsoe and Dani
Casey and Dani farming
Mukhayyo Azimova (4th from left) in Mecca celebrating her Hajj with her friends from her hometown of Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Sometimes my brother would visit from South Padre Island
Roky Erickson, Henry Rollins and Craig Stewart at Openers II book release at Tower Records
Casey and then-mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel. He is now the US Ambassador to Japan
Father Bernard and Joseph
Casey on the Blanco River 1979; photo by Lisa Pagones
Dear friend Mukhayyo and one of her many feasts she made for her family
Casey and Girl In A Coma
A photo I took of Doug Sahm at the Hole in the Wall in 1989. For once he wasn’t wearing sunglasses
Casey and some Texas cavers in Bustamante, Mexico
Roland and Casey at Hornitos
Thom Tarver in my backyard 2022
Governor Perry honors Wofford Denius for his many contributions to Texas Music
Micael Priest and Joseph
Jenn Grayson and Joseph
John Key’s oldest son John with Sunny, a cool cat Dani and Joseph rescued from the Carver Library bushes.
Casey, friend and fellow Hillcrest High alum John Mintz, and soulful singer Toni Price on Thanksgiving 1995
I would rarely miss a Blaze Foley show at the Austin Outhouse
Joseph hosted a lunch party for his classmates at Herbert’s Taco Hut in San Marcos. I’ve been eating there since 1978.
Joseph and a patient principal John Hewlett
Casey and Rustam dining in Tashkent with the National Singer of Uzbekistan Munojot Yoʻlchiyeva.
Casey in the 1980s; photo by Bill Leissner
Casey and Dani’s Grandmother
I lucked into buying this house in 1999 from Jim Campbell for $35,000.
Dani and our sister Megan
My Uzbek friends 2007.
Cassie’s daughter Alexa
Casey and Governor George W. Bush
Casey and Governor Perry
Casey and Governor Richards
Steven Ash, John Key and (in river) Clay McCain
Ornette shopping at Waterloo Records
Ornette Coleman in Austin
Joseph and Kris Cummings
The gang at Donn’s (Left to right, Kevin Connor, Stuart Sullivan, Joe Nick Patoski, and Charlie Sotelo)
Joseph and Eliza Fanuel
Steven and Joseph
Joseph, Sylvia and Dani
Casey, Joseph and bassist John McCormick. John and I received First Communion together
A nurse from Cincinnati
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Josephine Leonard and Casey. She was my Mom’s best friend
Dani, Joseph, and Casey in Hawaii
Feruza, Mamura, Komola and Dilshod Azimov
Casey and Mr. Carlos Sosa
Joseph and Craig Stewart, a big hearted music lover who helped make SXSW music what it is today.
Joseph and Neighbor Keith
A friend since ninth grade David Dawson
My brother Michael, his wife Haydee, me, and Dani
Jim Phillips and Joseph at Dirty Martin’s. Jim discovered and wrote about the Treaty Oak poisoner, and beat the police in identifying its poisoner. He also endured the Henry Lee Lucas trial. He’s probably the best crime reporter Austin’s ever had.
True Myrtle in my backyard before the freeze of 2021 killed it.
Bill Minor, Louisa Brinsmade, and their daughters Willa and Thea
Casey and Dani’s Vow Renewal at the Driskill Hotel with Master of Ceremonies Joe Nick Patoski
My high school running buddy Steven Patterson Ash (as always, he’s laughing)
My brother Michael toasted us at our Vow Renewal
Harvey Thomas Young singing at our wedding
David Halley singing at our wedding
Cousin Bill Hearne singing at our wedding
Rick Broussard singing at Dani and Casey’s wedding
Every Texan should spend some time in Galveston
Joseph, Casey, James McMurtry and Ray Wylie Hubbard at the shed
Joseph and Philip Zbylot, MD
Val and Kristin Link with their twins Eva & Camilla, and Dani and Joseph at Casa de Luz.
My Mom’s little sister Carole and her husband Uncle John Riedmaier
904 East 14th Street in 2000 after renovation by Joe Zakes, Doug Morgan and Keith Swenson
Joseph and the mystery staircase in Santa Fe, NM
Casey and Rustam at Madrasa in Tashkent.
My godparents Jim and Josephine Leonard; my son is named after my godmother
Casey and Craig Stewart
Helping wash Aunt Carol and Uncle John’s car in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, 1966
Darlene Colone was the glue that held the Statesman newsroom together.
Eclipse 2023
Dani and Joseph at Caddo Lake
Lead carpenter Doug Morgan kept my whole home from falling down with this simple trick in 1999. My home was built in 1885.
Grady Tuck and Margaret Wright
Dani and her Grandmother
Augusta, John and Melissa Key on Dorset Street
Casey and Joseph. Photo by John Kelso
My Mom and Dad loved a good party.
Casey and Andrew Leeper
My uncle Larry Monahan on right; my godfather Jim Leonard at left
Borger, TX native James Webb
Joseph and his barber for the past 6 years, the 82 year old Schulenberg native Kervin Warnken
Matt Adelman of Donn’s Depot and Joseph swimming at Wimberly’s blue hole.
Casey, Joe Nick and Doug Sahm at SXSW softball game
Stephen Lee Ray and Marcara Verlee Fort welcome Joseph and Dani to the Texas Music Office.
Patriarch of the Swensons
Bill Campbell and John Reed play the shed; Bill and John are 2 of my favorite musicians
Joseph and Dani enjoyed touring the Battleship Texas, the World War I ship now docked in Galveston harbor
I hitchhiked to New York City in 1982 to practice speaking Russian
War Machine
Casey and the great Billy Joe Shaver
Joseph and Dillon Andrews
Dani enjoying Zilker Botanical Garden
Casey goes botanical!
Byron Scott, John Reed, and Speedy Sparks play the shed
Byron Scott at Shed Party 2004
Tom Copeland and Casey at the Governor’s Mansion
Azimov family with Larry Butler at Boggy Creek Farm
Joe Bryson and Scott Newton
Joseph (bottom left) with his archery teammates at Highland Park Elementary School
Henry and Jon Jarratt with Joseph. Jon was my all time favorite intern at the Texas Music Office
Friend since 1973, Dr. Steven Patterson Ash demonstrates the proper way to eat a State Fair of Texas turkey leg
Joseph displays his street piano prowess
Joseph’s recent art project titled “Cat of Many Colors”
Joseph with the great Richard Rees
Joseph (bottom left) with his archery teammates at Highland Park Elementary School
Founder of the Victory Tutorial Program Clifton Griffin who mentored me for 15 years on how best to tutor students in my neighborhood at the Carver Library
Mukhayyo and Joseph
Mukhayyo, Joseph and Mamura in New Hampshire at Feruza and Andy’s wedding
My Dad, Warren G. Harding High School senior
last reunion of my Mom’s family
Joseph’s first concert, Abilene-based Dexter and the Moonrocks at Emo’s East (formerly the Back Room)
Casey and David Dawson in his home in Dallas
Joseph’s archery team placed First in the National competition in Salt Lake City
Joseph turns 11 at his favorite restaurant 68 Degrees Kitchen
Joseph’s team won First Place at the National Tournament in Salt Lake City
His team’s trophy
Joseph and his Godfather John Key
My Mom’s big sister Elaine and her big brother John
Junior Brown and Joseph share their first meal together
Joseph loved Santiago de Compestela
Joseph with his MD and friend Philip
Joseph and Dani in Portugal
Joseph and Dani at the Sanctuary of the Sacred Heart on the Monte De Luzia, Mount of Saint Lucy
1st Sleep Over
A show Bo Overlock and I staged in 1991
Joseph and Charlie Sotelo discuss the benefits of Public Access television
My Mom Ruth and Scott Newton’s eldest, Hawk, 1989
Joseph and a great friend’s son Erik
Casey, Maureen, Adam, John, Little John, Steven, Casey and Joseph on the banks of the Colorado River near San Saba
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Photo from an Austin City Limits taping of the Texas Tornados, taken for the Texas Music Business Directory I managed after becoming Director of the Texas Music Office in 1990.To left, bassist Speedy Sparks. To right, accordionist Flaco Jimenez. Photo credit: Scott Newton
Joseph in front of our 15 year old Big Tooth Maple tree
Joseph and I loved going to see Junior Brown. Sometimes Speedy would join us.
Roky, Dana and Jegar attend the Austin Music Awards at Palmer Auditorium, 1992
Roky and I had just ate a big meal at Arkie’s
The McCormick family circa 1959. At far right is my Mom’s friend Mary Lou McCormick and her youngest son John
My High School 1977
Joseph exploring the wilds of the Colorado River near San Saba
Johnny Hughes and Joe Nick Patoski at the Prairie Dog Town in Lubbock 1991
John Key and Mark Mundy at 10-year HS reunion
Diana Kennedy, Steven Ash and Liz Trice