Song of the Balcones

Five years before the Texian Revolt, canny spy Deaf Smith witnesses war.



In late 1831, the Republic of Mexico battled Native Americans in the Hill Country north of San Antonio, then an outpost on the northeastern frontier. Song of the Balcones tells part of the legend of the lost Bowie Silver Mine that J. Frank Dobie called “The great epic of Texas.”



A recording of a radio broadcast can be downloaded at http://soundcloud.com/user-172550072/sets/song-of-the-balcones.



On August 21, 1988, Howie Richey brought together Robert Bogan, Bill Averbach and other musicians who improvised without rehearsal this debut performance of Song of the Balcones in a broadcast of Live Set from KUT-FM’s studio 1A on the University of Texas campus. Musicians included Bill Averbach, Marvin King, Beth Kelly, Mark Madley, Horacio Rodriguez, R. B. Harlequin and Robert Atwood. The broadcast was engineered by Larry Monroe.