This is Old Blois and I want to tell you some more about Old Houston forward. Now you know he is this old boy that done a tour duty over in Afghanistan and Old Carl runs his beer garden up here and he brought Old Houston down here and gave him a job in his store down here selling groceries and different stuff down here. He don't work in the beer garden or at least he didn't start out there. He just works in the store and he sells everything down here but cigarettes you know Carl don't sell no cigarettes and don't allow no smoking and what Carl said you know Carl is a he's one of these people that you don't have to wonder about where he stands because he'll let you know and he said that cigarettes was bad for people's health and he said he wasn't going to sell nothing that would cause people to die so he wasn't going to sell no cigarettes and he said nobody was going to smoke around him around in his club because he said that that hurt other people too.
Well anyway I'm getting away from the story but oh Houston come down here and Carl was looking for some more entertainment for his club and so he hard you know he had these kittens Camden kittens that played every Thursday night where he hard Houston to work in his beer garden as entertainment and he works every Monday and Friday and you can hear old Houston down there and he picks the guitar and he plays and I don't know if you're familiarized with this but he plays that old finger picking style that mama Maybell played you know with the Carter family way back under well he plays that kind of style and I mean he can play it too and I guess Houston knows every country song that was ever sung or ever wrote or at least I never found a song that he didn't know and the people come down here they just crowd in down here to hear him I mean you talk about somebody that can pick and sang oh Houston Canyon and sometimes people are how are out of song that just to try to see if oh Houston knows it because they want to they want to trip him up on one of these old songs and they ain't done it yet Houston whatever you want to hear he'll play it for you and he can sing too and he plays you know cowboy copas and a Carter family and web peers and Hank Williams and Ernest Tubb any song that you've ever that has ever been wrote or sung in country music now you don't play none of this rock and roll but he plays country music and he can play it all and one time I was talking to Houston and I said Houston I said is that your real name Houston and he said oh yeah he said I got that name he said I grew up in Houston and he said my daddy named me after the time and called me Houston and he said you know if you got a name like that well you got to live up to it and he said of course he was you know kind of joking but he said that's how he learned how to play the guitar and said that's how he learned all them songs and he had to live up to his name well he is one of the most popular entertainers that they got down here besides him Camden Kittens you know he said he wouldn't in no competition for them kittens but anyway that's the kind of thing that Houston can do and you know he he's he's well locked down here by all the people you know they they think a whole lot of oh Houston forward but one person that I think that really does I think like oh Houston may be getting a little bit romani call about him is oh Toots Adams or Francine is what a real name is you know people have always called her Toots but she teaches school down here they hard her to to teach after you know Bernice Grantham got off and and had that baby where they she left and they hired old Toots and she's been down here about a year and a half now and and she does a real good job but she I believe she's kind of interested in old Houston and I tell you what happened she was talking to me one time I will happen to be in the store and old Houston you know didn't know her he had never met her I mean I guess he'd met her but he didn't know her and so she was talking to me and you know old old Francine is a real good dancer she she used to dance all down here she does that all ballet dancing you know they kick way up high and everything but she was talking to me and she said that she really did want to learn square dancing because she wanted to her kids her her kids that she she teaches down there she wanted them to learn square dancing because square dancing was you know popular down here and and she wanted to learn it and she wanted to learn it to her kids and she asked me could I square dance and I said Lord no I can't square dance I do no other kind of dancing neither and I said I don't know anybody down here that that could teach square dancing I know some people that do it but I don't think they could teach you how to do it and oh Houston was standing over listening to us and he said that he used to square dance that he know all them square dances and said he used to call them square dances and he said he couldn't do it no more it said he couldn't dance no more not square dance he said he could he could dance but he couldn't do no square dancing because he said you know not being able to see that way he'd run over people and so he had to quit that but she asked him said well could you could you learn me how to square dance and he said well he reckoned he could if he wanted to learn and so he he went down to the school the next day and he showed her how to dose you know and promenade and and he told her all that you know the the words and square dancing like you you corner you know that's the person to you left and and you you taught that's your partner I don't remember all he said but he was telling me about it told me all about square dancing and anyway he he learned her how to dance you know what the moves was and he's he told her that he could he remembered all the dances that he know how to call him but said he just couldn't do them no more and so she got to teach in her kids you know with Houston's help he would come down there every day at ten o'clock and and they would work on square dancing and she got her kids you know they just think the world of Houston and so he he got to teaching them how to dance and he started calling them square dancing and he calls it oh he can do the Texas star and and the four-gint star and Arkansas traveler and I think it's a name of a york and saw in the Virginia Reel and and different ones of you know he knows all of them dances and he's been doing it now for a long time and he learned them kids how to do that but what he done was in in in in besides learning old uh Francine and him kids how to dance was he made a impression on Francine and uh so uh I think she kind of got a case on old Houston and not only that but I believe that he has got a case on her too and they you know she comes down there to the store whenever she can and uh and they talk together you know and uh he uh he's real interested in her and and she's really interested in him and it wouldn't surprise me one bit if they was to get engaged and you know I think it would be a good thing for both of them because I like both of them I've always thought she was a real good old girl and I've known her all her life now I know Houston forward that long but he seems like a real good decent person to me and uh seems like he's got a lot of moral character you know because he always wants to help people and uh he'll do anything that he can for you and I just believe that the time might come when old Francine and Houston might get married and I believe if they did it would be a real good thing for the community because old Houston has he's come down here and he's made himself a part of everything and everybody likes him and so I believe that that uh you know I'm just hoping I'm just of course I know people are gonna do whatever they want to do but I'm just hoping that they do get together because I believe it would be the best thing in the world for him and I'm gonna I'm gonna stop here and but I'm gonna tell you one of the story about old Houston forward that would just tell you what kind of person he is but I'm gonna tell you some Houston has got a whole lot of abilities that you know that you wouldn't know you wouldn't suspect if you just was just a meeting because he don't brag he don't tell you what he can do but he does have a lot of a lot of abilities and I'm gonna tell you about one more in the next podcast.