Location: Little Longhorn Saloon, 5434 Burnet Rd. Start date: 2000 Run time: Sunday, 4-8pm All ages? Y
Sunday afternoons at the Little Longhorn regularly feature honky-tonk heavyweights the Derailers, Alvin Crow, and venue owner Dale Watson, but a well-fed fowl remains the biggest draw. Hatched 15 years ago by Watson with former owners Ginny and Don Kalmbach, Chicken Shit Bingo scored a bull’s-eye on the Austin atmosphere meter every time the bird whites out another bingo square. One time Billy Joe Shaver showed up with a documentary crew. “Billy got in line like everybody else and bought a ticket, won, dropped the winnings in the tip jar, sang a song with us, then left,” recalls Watson.
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Greg Beets was born in Lubbock on the day Richard Nixon was elected president. He has covered music for the Chronicle since 1992, writing about everyone from Roky Erickson to Yanni. Beets has also written for Billboard,Uncut, Blurt, Elmore, and Pop Culture Press. Before his digestive tract cried uncle, he co-published Hey! Hey! Buffet!, an award-winning fanzine about all-you-can-eat buffets.
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