Ray Wylie Hubbard

Slaid Cleaves, “Horseshoe Lounge”

But when Cleaves first success of Austin in the 90's, he said it took a while to learn the ropes of his adopted state. He said he was afraid of the Horseshoe Lounge, "a little dusty bar" in his neighborhood.

"I was afraid that if I walk there would be to ignore the deck and everyone turn around and look at me," said Cleaves. "He went out as a cool Texas in my breeding Maine-eyes.It was a little scary, there are no windows and is a kind of foreboding looking from the street. "

Cleaves and fellow Austin songwriter and "comrade" Karen Poston wrote the song "Horseshoe Lounge", which appeared on the fault before Cleaves never even set foot in the bar.

"We have not really wrote the song on the Horseshoe Lounge. We just used as a setting for a love story," says Clive.

"After I wrote the song that my mother has the CD to the Horseshoe Lounge while she was visiting at Christmas. It's a little broke the ice.They put the folder on the jukebox. I come here from time to time and people buy me a drink.

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