Q: I work as a park ranger in the Hill Country, and because of the Waylon Jennings song “Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)” I am often asked about Luckenbach. I did some research so that I could offer tourists some interesting tidbits, but all I found was that the songwriters had never been there. Why, then, did they write a song about it?! Heidi Dietze, Marble FallsA: Here’s what the Texanist knows: Luckenbach is a teeny-tiny Hill Country hamlet located in southeast Gillespie County, about ten miles outside of Fredericksburg. It was originally settled by industrious immigrant farmers in the OG (Old German) era of the 1840s. By the late nineteenth century, there was a blacksmith shop, a cotton gin, a post office,…
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