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6 COMPOSER COMPOSURE Music relaxes this ESD senior 8 PROFILE Clay Pendergrass 14 MUSICAL PHILANTHROPY Texas Winds Musical Outreach 16 OUTLAW DRUMMER Paul English kept rhythm for Willie 20 DINING Wok Star Chinese 38 VISIONS FOR CONFIDENCE Hockaday students helping through the arts

Musician Clay Pendergrass used the pandemic to expand his interest in visual arts. Read more on page 8. Art by Clay Pendergrass.

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A SO N G’S WO RT H 1 ,0 0 0 WO R DS The ESD senior speaking through music Story by RENEE UMSTED | Photography by JESSICA TURNER

DANI NESBIT started taking piano lessons with his fraternal twin brother, Miki, in second grade. Like many young people, Dani initially thought of it as a chore. But at some point, his attitude toward music changed. Practicing his craft became a respite for him, something to look forward to in the day. After years of practice, he began creating his own melodies, and by sixth grade, he had written his first song, “Happiness.” “That’s when it started,” Nesbit says. “I realized, wow, I love composing music.” While Miki traded his music practice for

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sports, Dani continued to pursue it. Now a senior at the Episcopal School of Dallas, he still studies with his original teacher and has written about six compositions since “Happiness.” Many of them, such as “Remembrance” and “Yearning,” are named to reflect emotional experiences. After some performances, Nesbit says some listeners have thanked him for making their day with a beautiful song. He realized his pieces made tangible the intangible concepts all people experience. “There’s so much power and emotion and connectivity in the music,” Nesbit says.

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“And when I’m writing it, it’s me sharing that with other people. And sometimes I feel like I can’t communicate to someone how I’m feeling or something that’s happening, but I can do that through my music. And people can feel that, too.” Nesbit is inspired by music from around the world. When he listens to different styles — from India, China, Japan and Latin America — he notices what makes each unique and ponders how to blend them together. His most recent work, “Los Sueños de Andalucía,” has elements of Spanish and Arabic melodies. It is aptly named after Al-Andalus, the region of the Iberian peninsula where the two cultures met. The creative process, which he documented in Musicalia, a short film he made, is sometimes tricky for him. He hears melodies in his head, but they are fleeting. If he isn’t able to get to a piano to play the tune, he loses it. Playing enables him to remember it. Nesbit sets aside time to experiment on the piano, when he listens to the notes he plays and judges what he does and doesn’t like. “It’s not a perfect process. Sometimes things come naturally. I hear something and I play it and it’s perfect,” he says. “And other times, it’s absolutely not what I wanted to do.” Now, he’s working on a piece influenced by the Persian/Iranian musical style, which features trills and tremolos. Nesbit appreciates not only its defining elements but also its foreignness to many Americans. Music, as a common interest, is a great connector, he says. “I’m learning more about music as I’m writing some of my own stuff,” he says. “And I’m seeing, what do other people do? What inspires them? What do they like?” Nesbit plans to continue creating music in college, but he wants to focus his studies on linguistics, hoping to become a diplomat or ambassador one day. He’s already fluent in English and Spanish, has a firm grasp on Arabic and is learning French and Persian. “It feels like a superpower when you can talk to someone in another language,” he says. “I think it’s really cool, but that’s also music. Music is a language like that, and it all connects people.”

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How opening at Club Dada kick started Clay Pendergrass’ career ›

f Clay Pendergrass and his brother opened the windows of the converted attic bedroom in their Anita Street childhood home, from one direction they could hear the music pouring out of the Granada and Arcadia. In the other direction, once the old Dr. Pepper Plant shut down, they could hear the music from the Dyer Street clubs. It was a different time, when you could still smell fresh bread from the Mrs. Baird’s plant at Central Expressway and Mockingbird Lane all the way down Lower Greenville. Pendergrass would slip out of his window and stand outside the bars he was too young to get into, just

listening to the music. “It’s not as crazy as it sounds,” Pendergrass says. “I don’t think we could do things like that now.” Pendergrass, a guitarist, bassist and percussionist who also dabbles in visual art, has been a mainstay in the Dallas music scene for over two decades. He’s recorded and toured with the likes of David Garza, Jackopierce, American Horse and Jack Ingram . Longyear, released by his label Clay Sounds last year, is “psychedelic, funk, pop, noise, ambient, electronic, Tex-Mex and flute rock.” It’s a combination of original songs, a New Bohemians cover, a church hymn and the

Interview by JEHADU ABSHIRO | Art by CLAY PENDERGRASS

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national anthem. Created with New Orleans-based producer Danny Kadar, the album was made over the course of several years with tracks being sent back and forth virtually. It features a lot of guests, mostly friends. It encapsulates Pendergrass’ career — a collage of genres and collaboration. HOW’D YOU GET YOUR START IN MUSIC? Some of my first memories are singing in church with my family. I played trumpet throughout elementary school and high school. And I probably didn’t get my actual start until probably about my senior year of high school and then (until) David Garza. We started a little band in high school called The Happy Farmers. We got really serious about playing and writing songs. I had taken some bass lessons with Brad Houser, who’s a musician and bassist who plays with Edie Brickell & New Bohemians. He was really instrumental in helping me get started. And then that was probably the first big break, being able to open for them at Club Dada as high schoolers. It’s just kind of crazy to think about. WHAT WAS THAT EXPERIENCE LIKE, OPENING FOR THEM AT CLUB DADA? It was pretty amazing because we were huge fans. They were really encouraging of the musical community and helped out a lot of young players — I mean, loaned instruments, allowed people to open up for them. It was thrilling. Club Dada was a profound influence on me. When they started, they were really a dada club. It was a surreal place, and the calendar and the acts reflected that. So you’d have New Bohemians, you’d have Tiny Tim, you’d have Cafe Noir, you know, playing this brilliant gypsy jazz. That’s the Dallas I came up in. We were really lucky to be fostered by our musical older brothers and sisters. HOW HAS YOUR MUSICAL STYLE CHANGED? I think if you talk to the high school self, he might have been content to be a session player or a sideman only playing bass. I think that’s how it evolved, you know, constantly trying to learn, put yourself in new situations, being fearless about picking up new instruments, making sound and allowing it to be fun. I also moved over into production, and mixing, and all that sort of thing, too. I’m constantly trying, striving to be maybe a fuller musician that can understand more perspective with each day that passes. WHY DO YOU THINK VINYL IS SUCH A BIG PART OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY IN DALLAS? I think people fall in love with it. It’s a great sound. I think so many people these days experience music through tiny headphones or Bluetooth connected speakers. Usually if you’ve gone through the trouble of getting vinyl, you’ve gone also gone through the trouble of getting a somewhat decent system. It’s going to represent the full spectrum of what was put into that music on playback. I’m in love with the way that at a certain volume, when you send that sound through the air, it’s gonna move you and make you feel a different way than if it’s not there. There’s magic in the music that you’re going to get no matter what medium you take. But I do think vinyl delivers a really impressive and sustaining dose of that magic.

W H AT T Y P ES O F V I SUA L A RT H AV E YOU B E E N DABBLING IN? Mainly collage, that’s my favorite. And it kind of correlates to the music, because I do a lot of instrumental music as well, in a style that I call sonic collage. So a lot of the same concepts like interspersing samples, or cut up music, concrete tape loops. And then, you know, also applying organic sounds to them, like live performance or field recording. WHAT DO YOU LISTEN TO WHEN YOU GO ON A ROAD TRIP? Well, it would depend greatly on who’s on the road trip with me. But if I get to choose, I love the New Avalanches album We will Always Love You. My main artists I returned to would undoubtedly be Miles Davis. Joni Mitchell. Daniel Lanois is another big one for me. NOWADAYS, YOU GO TO A CONCERT, AND EVERYBODY HAS THEIR PHONE. HOW HAS THAT INTERACTION WITH THE AUDIENCE CHANGED? That’s a tough one. I mean, it’s definitely noticeable from the stage. I don’t even carry a phone personally so it’s kind of difficult for me to even relate to. But, you know, I don’t want to put on any limitations of what it might mean to other people. I have a 16-year-old daughter and to her that’s part of the experience. And, and that’s OK. WHAT HAS BEEN THE WILDEST EXPERIENCE AT A CONCERT OR A RECORDING? I was pulled off the stage and arrested one time in Houston at a Baptist high school dance, which kind of tells you everything you need to know. That’s probably the craziest live music experience. A few years ago, basically I did a 24-hour, all-day, all-night session with Andre 3000. Because he was in town. This is something he’ll do from time to time, which is book a studio wherever he is, and bring in local musicians and just try to get creative. Luckily, the owner of the studio invited me in on this. And we needed a drummer and wound up with Michael Hale, who also plays with David [Garza]. The touring life is amazing, just all the random moments that you have there. Like driving through, the outskirts of Yellowstone on an overnight from El Paso to LA or something like that. The recording of the Jackopierce’s Finest Hour. That was another amazing studio experience because we got to work a producer, mixer and musician named Don Smith, who’s done records with Rolling Stones, Eurythmics, Aretha Franklin. That was a really special experience because he was really kind to us. When we were at his house in Agoura Hills, California, working on the record, he had just gotten back from the Stones. We’re sitting in this room full of gear with the preamps, marked Mick or Keith. WHAT’S INTERESTING ABOUT THE DALLAS MUSIC SCENE? How diverse it is and how eclectic it is. And it does seem to be an ability to reach across age and genre here. Lately, I’ve been feeling there’s another good era of musical community coming up. There’s such a rich history and timeline here — that is something worth celebrating, and being tapped into and aware of, musically. To be aware of Blind Lemon Jefferson, all the way up to MC 900 Ft. Jesus and beyond. That’s pretty exciting. That’s a good musical history to be seated in.

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the pawnbroker’s daughter EVELYN GOLDSTEIN GREW UP AT THE END OF AN ERA

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Honest Joe’s Pawnshop as it appeared in the 1970s. Photos courtesy of Evelyn Goldstein.

velyn Goldstein stayed up drinking wine and listening to Miles Davis to write her dad’s eloquent obituary for the Jewish Post earlier this year.

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“I’m not a writer,” she says. “People have tried to write a book on my family so many times, that I’m like, ‘You know what, I’m going to write this’ ... because dad was everything to me and to a lot of people.” Her great-uncle was Honest Joe, aka Rubin Goldstein, whose pawnshop, with its glorious jumble of hand-painted signs, was a fixture of Deep Ellum for generations. Honest Joe grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and dreamed of owning a pawnshop like the ones lining Delancey Street in the early 20th century. In 1931, he moved to Dallas, where he had relatives in the pawn business, and at age 23 opened Honest Joe’s at 2524 Elm St. Once he was established, his kin started moving here, including brother Rocky Goldstein. That was Evelyn’s grandfather. Rocky’s Pawnshop was at 2018 Elm St. Evelyn’s dad worked there starting in childhood and later co-owned it with his dad. The place was crammed with stuff, an organizer’s nightmare. One of Rocky’s signs read, “Stop dropping cigarette butts on the floor, the cockroaches are getting cancer.” They did business with wise guys and petty criminals, but also musicians, housewives and working stiffs. “When I was a kid, I always wanted to be at my dad’s shop,” Evelyn says. She grew up in Garland and graduated from Dallas Academy in Lake Highlands. David Goldstein worked all the time. He never took days off or went on vacation, so Evelyn and her brother, Jordan, have tons of childhood memories from the shop. “There were gangsters in there all the time,” she says. Guys she knew as East Dallas Louie and Johnny Tomato used to pick her up from school. Rocky put her into business around age 10 with gumball and candy machines. She had several in East Dallas, like at laundromats and Garland Road Thrift Store, and those drivers would take her around to collect her profits and refill them. The Goldsteins received national attention for a couple of presidential incidents. Honest Abe helped the FBI with tracing the rifle Lee Har vey Oswald used to assassinate President Kennedy in 1963. The pawnbroker reportedly had ridden in JFK’s motorcade, and he is mentioned in the Warren Commission Report. In 1981, Rocky Goldstein sold a

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.22-caliber handgun to Highland Park’s own John Hinckley Jr., who used it in an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. Every media outlet in the country wanted to interview him about that. The notoriety he received over it was so intense that they moved Rocky’s from Deep Ellum to East Grand about a year later, Evelyn says. She remembers vividly the time, when she was 7 years old, that the shop on East Grand was held up. “I was put into a back room,” she says. “That kind of stuff was very common then.” David Goldstein, who was a staunch Republican his whole life, moved the shop to Garland Road at Peavy around 1990. He turned it into a police supply store, selling uniforms, holsters and vests to cops, while his dad also ran a small pawnshop inside the store. “Have you ever heard of a pawn shop inside of a police store?” Evelyn says. “You had the police rubbing elbows with the criminals.” The Garland Road store was safer than the two previous locations, she says. Evelyn started working there when she was about 15, mostly helping with inventory. In high school, her friends always wanted to hang out there, even when they could’ve been at the mall or Wet and Wild. The magnetism was in her dad’s stories of old Dallas, and he also gave them candy. David Goldstein, who grew up in Preston Hollow and graduated from Hillcrest High School, practiced painting and music and loved to romance beautiful women. He was married four times, and his final marriage, to Laura Levy, lasted 17 years.

He was known as a Jewish matchmaker and even introduced one of his exwives to the man she would marry and have kids with. In 1986, he started a club with his three best friends, Bernie Schuster, Larry Strauss and Howie Miles, called the Weiss Guys. “Every Thursday night, they would go out — women weren’t invited — and they’d have a dinner,” Evelyn says. The Weiss Guys grew to include about 200 men, and 40 or 50 would often show up to the dinners. “My little brother was working in a restaurant, and he didn’t want to wait on them,” she says. “Separate checks, Diet Cokes, coffees with cream ...” A b o u t o n c e a y e a r, they’d have a big party at the Stoneleigh and invite the wives, she says. After her dad died in May, they held the last Weiss Guys dinner. “They invited me and my brother and had us sit at the head of the table,” she says. “Almost all of them came. It was very touching.” Evelyn still has two cousins who worked at Rocky’s back in the day. But so many of David Goldstein’s close friends and family members have died, she says. It’s a shame nobody wrote that book. Life behind the bar

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didn’t set out to be a bartender my whole life,” Evelyn says. She’s lived all over Dallas, completed college courses and worked in several industries. But she always comes back to slinging drinks. She recently started at Al Biernat’s, a restaurant her dad loved.

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Top: Evelyn Goldstein, near the site of her grandfather’s former pawnshop in Deep Ellum. Above: An Associated Press photo from Rocky’s in 1981.

Her first job was working as a bar back for the owners of Desperado’s Mexican Restaurant, who were friends of her dad. But her favorite job of all time was at the Granada Theater. “I was the first bartender they hired,” she says. “I have so much love from that family, it’s unbelievable.” She worked there until 2013, when she had to quit because she was near death before receiving a kidney transplant. “I was working a shift there one night, and it was real busy, and I thought I was going to have a heart attack,” she says. “I’ve never felt anything like that before.” She went home and then drove herself to an urgent clinic, which rushed her to the hospital because she was minutes from stroking out. At age 28, she was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease. First, she took nine months of chemotherapy, followed by six-and-a-half years of “grueling” dialysis. By the end, she weighed 70 pounds, and the dialysis, “felt like it was sucking the insides of me out.” She received a kidney transplant Sept. 23, 2014, on Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year. After that, she returned to work at the Majestic Theater, an easier job with fewer dates, and over the years has worked her way back into the restaurant business. Eater interviewed her last year for their national publication after she contracted COVID-19 at work in a Dallas restaurant. The virus attacked her kidney and put her in intensive care. Working in restaurants during the pandemic has been among the most stressful times of her life, she says. At a previous job, a customer threw a glass at her (and missed) because she told him to put on a mask. Around that time, “things were going on in Israel,” and she received antisemitic harassment from a customer who noticed her Star of David charm. “Everyone was in a bad mood. No one wanted to be there,” she says. “It was a horrible time.” And then her father died. A few days before, he told her he thought she should be working at Al Biernat’s. “He knew,” she says. “He was just a character.”

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ONCE WHEN PATRICE KOENIG was performing at a memor y care facility, she noticed something happen in the audience. As soon as Koenig started playing “Maple Leaf Rag” on the piano, one of the residents came to life in her wheelchair and began making her doll dance to the music. “After the program, (she) told me her mother used to play that piece,” Koenig says. “She was so excited to think about her mother again. That type of experience is just so heartwarming.” Koenig, who lives in Preston Hollow, has been a performer for Texas Winds Musical Outreach for 26 years. The nonprofit provides free professional concerts to people at hospitals or nursing homes and memory care facilities. It also has a program for children at Head Start schools, where the musicians perform a story, demonstrate instruments and lead sing-alongs and musical games. “This is just a really great introduction to music for pre-K kids, and it’s been a really successful program,” says Jane Escueta, a program director and violinist for Texas Winds. Koenig is one of 70 professional musicians working with Texas Winds in Dallas-Fort Worth. Many of them have experience in orchestras or symphonies. Koenig started playing piano at 4 years old, pushed by her mother who was a piano teacher. She earned her bachelor’s and two mas ter ’s degrees in music at SMU. T hen, she spent years traveling the world, performing with a cellist before settling permanently in Dallas. In the time she spends away from Texas Winds ensembles, Koenig teaches piano lessons and plays for Temple Emanu-El and White’s Chapel in Southlake. Before COVID -19, she had gigs at weddings and funerals. Texas Winds was started in 1985 by Catherine Barr, who was married to a staff member at SMU. Koenig first played with a Bach chorale, and her involvement grew from there. Over the years, she’s

played in ensembles with some combination of oboists, violinists, violists and cellists. About 21 Texas Winds ensembles play across Dallas, ranging from solos to a group of five, a brass quintet. “ When we bring a really high-level concer t to them with professional players, they are just so appreciative,” Koenig says. “And the joy that it brings them is really what brings us the most joy. It is just amazing how big an impact it has in their lives.” Though the pandemic limited the number of in-person concerts, it opened up the possibility for Zoom and virtual concerts. Musicians recorded at least 60 of them, each 15-20 minutes long, and published them on YouTube. Zoom allowed Texas Winds to reach larger audiences, especially children. At Parkland Children’s Medical Center, for example, the musicians can broadcast concerts using the in-house television network, enabling staff, children and their families to hear the music. With grants and donations, Texas Winds is able to subsidize the cost of its concerts and prioritize facilities that lack an entertainment budget, Escueta says. But it’s not just about the music. “ We feel this is just as important an aspect of our mission, just that personal connec tion and letting people know that they’re cared for,” Escueta says. “And it’s nice to combine that with music.”

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aul English put the outlaw in country. He dressed like the devil, with satin-lined capes and pointed sideburns. He carried a gun, hung out with Hells Angels and was not afraid to bust skulls to make sure beer joints and honky-tonks paid his boss at the end of the night. English saw the world looking at the backside of Willie Nelson for 54 years, keeping rhythm for songs we all know by heart. Before he was Willie’s drummer, English led a life of crime. Yes, he was a pimp. Yes, he did a little time in the Ellis County jail as a teen. He was a Cowtown hoodlum who looked up to gangsters like Benny Binion and Herbert “The Cat” Noble. Later, he had interests such as used car lots in Houston and Fort Worth, and he funded some of

“I T E L L YO U, THEY WERE ALL SO OBSESSED WITH GOLF T H AT I T H O U G H T QUITTING WO U L D B E T H E D OW N FA L L O F T H E BA N D.” Willie’s early career. After Willie hired him in 1966, he led the rock ’n’ roll lifestyle and never left it until days before his death. What most of the world never knew before English died at age 87 in February 2020 is that he also attended Jesuit football games and basketball games at Parish Episcopal. He wanted his grandson to attend at St. Rita Catholic School because he loved Father Joshua Whitfield’s op-eds. This hellraiser who was Willie Nelson’s best friend and protector was married for 41 years to Janie English, a licensed counselor who has two master’s degrees. She is currently a school counselor at St. Rita, and she also works nights at a private counseling center.

Her husband always loved this about her. When they first started dating, he would introduce her by saying, “This is Janie. She has a job, and she goes to college.” 1977 They met at the Black Eyed Pea Festival in Athens, Texas, the year Elvis Presley died. She was at a gathering at someone’s home in Oak Lawn, and Mickey Raphael was there. Raphael, Willie’s longtime harmonica player, is from Dallas. “He said, ‘I’ve been playing in this band, and I’m trying to get a ride to Athens,’” Janie says. She had bragging rights from seeing the Rolling Stones the first time they played the Cotton Bowl, but she says, “I actually had no idea who Willie Nelson was.” When they arrived, Raphael told her to hang out and let him know if she needed anything. For some reason, the band’s old bus, which they called The Tube, was out of commission, and she saw this guy wearing red boots and a vest with patches all over it getting out of his car. She thought he looked so interesting. “So I said, ‘Well as long as I’m going to be hanging around, I’d like to meet that guy,’” she says. Back then, they kept in touch by writing letters and long-distance phone calls. But soon Paul rented a place in Oak Lawn with tour manager David Anderson, whose girlfriend also lived in Dallas. Paul, who was then in his 40s, threw Janie’s 22nd birthday party at a strip club on Lower Greenville that one of his “character friends” owned. Janie, who graduated from Berkner High School in Richardson, also went on the road with the band when she wasn’t working at her job in a psychiatry practice at the old Garland community hospital. Once, after she flew out for a show in Tahoe, Paul wanted her to stay, but she had to get back to work. “He said, ‘Why don’t you quit that job? We’re going out to Los Angeles,’” Janie says.

“I said, ‘ Well, if I’m going to quit my job, I think I need a ring.’” 41-year quickie marriage They had a double wedding in Las Vegas with basist Bee Spears, who was married to Julia until his death in 2011. “We just decided we would get married

“WELL AS LONG AS I’M GOING TO BE HANGING AROUND, I’D LIKE TO MEET THAT GUY.”” GUY. and see where it went,” she says. “He said later he thought it would be six months, and it was 41 years.” They bought a house off Audelia Road in the Lake Highlands area. It became the party house where all of Paul’s “character friends” hung out alongside bikers, roadies and musicians. That house burned down on Palm Sunday in 1987 while Janie was at mass, and they lost nearly everything they owned, including priceless memorabilia like song lyrics Willie had written on scraps of paper. Also, their dog, Coco, had died before the fire. And their car was stolen. This was also around the time that Willie got in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service, and the band was off the road for a couple of years. family life The Englishes took all of that as a tap on the shoulder that maybe it was time to settle down. Paul was 55 when they bought a house on a golf course in Garland. “I tell you, they were all so obsessed with golf that I thought quitting would be the downfall of the band,” Janie says. Buddy Prewitt, Willie’s lighting director of 44 years who is known as “Budrock,” says they “had a brotherhood of golf,” that

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household in Fort Worth, and his mother would speak in tongues. Because of that, he never wanted to have anything to do with church, even though he loved Christmas. Janie is Catholic and a child of the ’60s. They intersected at social justice. He served on the board of Farm Aid until his death. She believes her faith calls her to right injustices. Paul was not highly educated, but he was well-read and genius-level intelligent. He read The Dallas Morning News, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times on Sundays. He was constantly playing chess online with Willie, often while simultaneously working a sudoku puzzle. Janie still keeps her TV locked on CNN because that’s how Paul always had it. By the way, he hated Trump, although he had conservative values.

“WE DIDN’T START OUT TO HAVE THESE PRIVATESCHOOL EDUCATED CHILDREN, BECAUSE WE WERE JUST A COUPLE OF POOR KIDS, YOU KNOW?” “Sometimes I still expect to hear him saying, ‘Janie come here and look at this!’ and he’d be all worked up about something Trump did,” she says.

Top, Paul and Willlie in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 1981. This hat was among the things lost in their 1987 house fire. Photo by Red Morgan. Above, left to right: Mandy, Paul Jr., Paul III, Janie, Evan and Taylor.

kept them together all the time. When they weren’t playing music together, they were swinging clubs. Prewitt, who is from Dallas, fathered two of the Willie Nelson family band’s “IRS babies,” born as a result of their time off the road. His two daughters were born around the same time as Willie’s sons Micah and Lucas, and the English boys Paul junior and Evan. “We just had too much time on our hands, I guess,” Prewitt says. The Englishes moved to Dallas about 15

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years ago to be closer to their sons’ schools. “We didn’t start out to have these private-school educated children, because we were just a couple of poor kids, you know?” Janie says. “But it was the only way we could take our kids out of school whenever we wanted so they could travel. You couldn’t do that be the downfall.” Social Justice Paul English was a dustbowl baby born in Vernon, Texas. He grew up in a “holy roller”

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Grandpa Paul Paul English Jr. and wife, Mandy, lived with the Englishes for about a year after their son, Paul English III aka Trey, was born. Mandy took up crossword puzzles because of her father-in-law. “We would be sitting in the kitchen at breakfast, and Mr. English would be there doing his puzzles,” she says. She always says he was an angel in disguise. Leather tooling and sketch art were among his talents, and all of his siblings are artistic. His younger brother Billy is now the drummer in Willie’s band. His older brother Oliver was a

“THAT SHOWS YOU THE PULL HE HAD ON PEOPLE. HE JUST HAD A PRESENCE.” multi instrumentalist who also played in The Family band for a time. Paul’s “baby boy,” Evan English, married his wife, Taylor, in December 2019. They were high-school sweethearts — he graduated from Jesuit and she from Ursuline in 2013, and they both went to The University of Oklahoma. Janie says her husband loved taking road trips to visit him in Norman. “It was just like being on the road,” she says. He went all out on Christmas lights, putting up an annual display that Clark Griswold could respect. Paul looked great in a tux, and although he typically hated formal events, he was so happy at Evan’s wedding and led his sister, Nadine, around the room on his arm the whole day, family members say. He was also a great dancer, and so is Evan, who looks so much like his dad. Paul’s son Darrell, from a previous marriage, lives in Glen Rose and is very much part of the family, Janie says. larger than life After he died, English’s family found out just how many fans he had, and it wasn’t necessarily a pleasant discovery. But old guys have come up to the son Paul to say they remember a joke their dad told on some random tour stop decades ago, he says. “That shows you the pull he had on people,” the younger Paul says. “He just had a presence.” He could suck all the air out of a room just by stepping into it. He could intimidate the toughest dudes with a word or a look. He once broke his hand on a guy’s face after the guy threw a bottle at the band in a roadhouse in Houston, and he still played the next night, shoving a drumstick into his plaster cast. Someone once gave him a little antique gun, and it went off while he had

it in his pocket and shot him in the back of the leg. They bandaged it up at the hospital, and he still went into the studio that night to work on the Stardust album. “We were so shocked when he died, and I think what shocked us the most was that something could actually kill him,” Janie says. “Because you think he just couldn’t end. And of course, he hasn’t, because we have Paul and Evan and Trey.” Made famous or infamous in Willie’s song “Me and Paul,” he was always a gentleman, friends say. He took Bobbie Nelson by the hand and walked her from the bus to her piano and back every night. He kept the books and did payroll for the band until the end. He was tough, but he was never mean, friends say.

“THEY CAN REMEMBER DAD GETTING HOME OFF THE BUS, AND NO MATTER HOW LONG HE’D BEEN OUT OR HOW TIRED HE WAS GOING OUT AND THROWING THE FOOTBALL.” “He was honest and fair and one of the best people I ever knew,” Budrock says. “If you ever needed anything or had any kind of problem, you could always go to Paul.” backyard dad Once his sons were born, they were the focus of his life, Janie says. “They can remember dad getting home off the bus, and no matter how long he’d been out or how tired he was, going out and throwing the football,” she says. The younger Paul, who graduated from Parish in 2007 and later received a degree from UT Austin, says it never felt like his dad was absent, even though he was on the road six or seven months of the year. He commanded respect, but he wasn’t

scary, his sons say. “I think it was remarkable the job that he did,” Paul says. “It always felt like there was a fatherly presence in the home.” life after paul Paul the dad had just recovered remarkably well from a stroke in 2013 when his tour bus crashed into a bridge at 75 miles per hour on icy roads. Paul sustained a broken hip and a concussion. He didn’t talk as much after that and was never quite the same, although his mind remained sharp for the rest of his life. His memorial service at Billy Bob’s took place a week before the coronavirus shut everything down. Janie moved out of their 5,000-square-foot house earlier this year. “It was excruciating,” she says. And she recently moved into a 2,500-squarefoot house near St. Rita, where Trey is a student. Evan works in commercial real estate, and Paul English Jr. is a TV writer who has worked on Cruel Summer and is now at work on an HBO series that hasn’t been titled yet. By the way, he got his start on the MTV series Jackass, and the elder Paul loved Johnny Knoxville and the other knuckleheads on that show. Evan and Paul are both musicians as well, and Trey is learning drums and piano. Mandy is in venue management and event planning, and Taylor works in marketing. They both refer to their father-in-law as “Mr. English,” to this day, even though they’re on a first-name basis with Janie. English kept his home life separate from his life in that band of gypsies going down the highway. This was the first interview Janie’s ever done, except for talks with Paul’s biographer. Now she’s trying to figure out what life is without Paul and how to keep his legacy alive. She just wants her husband to be proud of her. “When you’ve been a background player in someone else’s story for almost your whole life, how do you write your own?” she says. This wouldn’t be the story of Paul English without noting his twangy, often indecipherable, way of speaking. Go to prestonhollow.advocatemag.com to watch a video of English.

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EVERY CHRISTMAS DAY, DAVID ROMANO AND HIS FAMILY USED TO EAT CHINESE FOOD IN NEW YORK CITY. The president of Local Favorite Restaurants group and a legacy restaurant creator, Romano found a special place in his heart for Chinese food. “We would always go to Chinatown,” says Romano, who’s lived in Preston Hollow for five years. “I just got entranced by the culture.” There was one thing though he felt was missing from those Chinese restaurants. “They’re not that fun,” he says. Following that thought, Wok Star Chinese was born. It combines Chinese cuisine with a fun atmosphere and American-style service. Intense rock ‘n’ roll-inspired pop art covers one wall of the restaurant, while Chinese artifacts sit on shelves

and hang nearby. From the dining room, guests get a good view of Chef Charlie hand pulling noodles. He learned how in China, studying for six months under another chef. He came to the United States by way of California and then made his way over to Texas to work with Romano. He often dances while he hand pulls the noodles, making a show of the craft. For Wok Star’s opening night, the chef was placed in the center of the dining room, dancing along to a guest DJ as he worked the dough. “If you come and you don’t get the Charlie show, then you need to make sure that you come back the second time and get the Charlie show,” Romano says. The music that plays at Wok Star is uniquely theirs. Their ever-growing 34hour playlist is private on Spotify and run by Romano’s 13 year-old daughter, Mia, who attends the Episcopal School

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of Dallas. Over the course of one meal, guests could hear everything from Nirvana and Grandmaster Flash to Taylor Swift and Usher. While they bob their heads to the music, guests are feasting on Wok Star’s drinks, starters and entrees. The menu is authentically Chinese, Romano says. There are four handpulled noodle options. Chef Charlie’s favorite is the Dan Dan La Mian. Classic chicken, pork, beef and seafood options are also sprinkled throughout the menu in the form of fried rice, moo shu and sweet-and-sour. Bao buns and handmade dumplings are other stars of the menu. “It would be a travesty if people came to Wok Star and didn’t order at least one version of dumplings,” says Romano. The menu focuses on full-size entrees, but he is currently looking into

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incorporating dim sum cart ser vice. “ Th e r e’s s o m e m o r e r e search that needs to go into it,” he says. “There’s only a couple of places in this city that do it, so it means we’ve got to spend a lot of time figuring it out.” Wok Star has fully figured out its cocktail menu. Musical references pack the creative d r i n k l i n e u p, w i t h o p t i o n s like the gin-based Radioactive, which comes with smoke bubbles. The I’m Too Sexy is made with Deep Eddy Lime and Sour Patch Kids. And the Like a Virgin Mocktail is made with strawberry, club soda and heavy cream. Romano lo oke d all over the city for the Wok Star site, but settled on The Hill in Lake Highlands. Though interested in opening the restaurant closer to the Dallas North Tollway, out of respect for Royal China’s business, he went for a location across Central Express-

way. He was initially worried that there weren’t many places offering dinner ser vice at the shopping center, but those fears were quickly put to rest. When the restaurant opened for deliver y only, there were nights when they had to stop taking orders because there were too many. And when the doors finally opened in April, the resta uran t was fl o o de d w i t h g u e s t s, i n c l u d i n g o u r neighbors, who praise d the unique atmosphere. “It’s meant for someone to go in there and eat and move their feet,” Romano says, “and remember what it was like to listen to ’80s music when they were growing up.” Wok Star Chinese, wokstarchinese.com, 9 7 2 . 9 6 1 . 1 1 6 8 , 8 0 4 1 Wa l n u t Hill Lane Chef Charlie studied for six months under another chef in China to learn how to hand pull noodles.

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We believe a RIGOROUS EDUCATION goes hand in hand with a childlike sense of WONDER. Our campus gardens, media center, barn, and farm animals help educate our students through EXPLORATION, PLAY, COLLABORATION, and COMPASSION.

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The Lamplighter School is dedicated to igniting the potential of each child. Focused on students in pre-kindergarten through fourth grade, young children are engaged in the joy of learning through intellectual discovery in a nurturing, inclusive, and collaborative environment. At Lamplighter, the student is central and our faculty is extraordinarily skilled at working side by side to nurture each child’s natural curiosity. Lamplighter offers limitless possibilities for learning, including opportunities to solve real problems, develop STEM skills, and benefit from our innovation lab, barn, and gardens. Through age-appropriate intellectual, creative, and physical challenges, our students learn to both lead and work together to support one another. Students at the School emerge as risk takers, problem solvers, and confident leaders. Founded in 1953, today’s 12-acre educational campus has an enrollment of 450 students. Lamplighter delivers serious education wrapped in the wonder of childhood.

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Do n ’t fea r c h a n ge G o d d o es n ’t c h a n ge, b u t we d o

wise friend once asked me, “Matthew, you do know the definition of fear, don’t you?” Before I could reply, they blurted out, “ C H A N G E ! ” C h a n ge i s a l w ay s hard, but it’s especially hard when it feels like the whole world is changing at the same time. As Presbyterians, change is not one of our main character traits. Yo u m ay k n o w t h e j o ke , “ Ho w many Presbyterians does it take to change a light bulb?” “Change?!” Yet, change is at the heart of our faith traditions. We believe in a God who changes hearts, minds and lives! We follow a God who restores relationships and gets to the valley of the shadow of death before we do to catch us when we fall. As Christians, we worship and follow a God who is alive and on the loose in the world by the power of the Holy Spirit. Change is baked not only into the human experience but baked right into the very fabric of our faith. Perhaps that’s why throughout the scriptures, we are told 365 times, “Do not fear/be not afraid.” It’s almost as if we need this reminder every day of our lives. Even though change is in the fabric of our faith, G od doesn’ t change! The God who led the Israelites out of slavery and into freedom is the same God who leads us in the midst of this COVID wilderness. The God who called forth a new vision through the Apostle Paul and the early church is the same God who has been moving

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through this community of faith to gather us in new forms. For God’s very heart wishes nothing short of transformation for each of us. How amazing it is to have a God like that! It was recently reported that seven million Americans quit their jobs las t month. Fur thermore, it is estimated that a quarter of Americans will change careers in the next 12 months. What is clear is we are a people experiencing a massive shift. I f y o u f e e l u n s e tt l e d , t h a t seems about right, given all we have gone through as a people. It is only natural to feel fear and apprehension. But I want you to hear and know this good news: G od is not distant even in the midst of those feelings. Throughout the pages of scripture, we come to know that God is best known and revealed in moments of great change! It’s the great paradox of faith. So, may we be a people who have eyes to see and hearts to feel how the living G od is working through us in this time. With great hope, Matthew

Rev. Matthew Ruffner is the Senior Pastor at Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church. He is a husband to Sarah Ruffner and a father of two. You can follow Matthew on Instagram at @ thisismatthewruffner and visit phpc. org to watch the church’s live stream and listen to sermons.

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Two Hockaday students helping youth find futures in the arts Story by RENEE UMSTED | Photography by JESSICA TURNER

WHEN MADELEINE CHEN WAS 8, her mother enrolled her in contemporary and jazz dance classes. She’d been struggling with confidence, but dance provided a way to make friends and express her personality. Elizabeth Echt found music to be a method of self-expression. She began playing violin at 6 years old. Now, she sings and plays guitar, piano, drums, mandolin and bass. A couple of years ago, she joined a band called Love Club. “That atmosphere really helps you build your confidence level and express yourself,” Echt says. Chen and Echt, both sophomores at The Hockaday School, wanted to help other young people like them. Dance and music were so transformative in their lives. They knew the arts could change others, too. “We just kind of saw all the harsh expecta-

tions in society, and what really helped us combat those feelings was going into fine arts, finding another outlet to express ourselves,” Chen says. Last year, they decided to create a nonprofit, Visions for Confidence, and have already been able to provide scholarships for students pursuing the arts. One recipient was able to get started on a professional dancing career, while another used the funds to enroll in a competition, where she won a $100,000 scholarship to attend Pace University. In addition to providing scholarships, Echt and Chen teach music and dance classes to students who can’t access other instructional opportunities. For example, Chen, who competed in Youth America Grand Prix’s world finals last spring, taught a ballet camp at HappyFeet Dance School. In September, Echt and Chen planned to volunteer at Rays of Light, an organization that offers respite care to families of children with special needs. “We didn’t really know what the basics were of a nonprofit,” Chen says. “We just knew that we wanted to do something and we wanted to help people.” The first step they took was fundraising. Initially, they tried selling some of their old dresses on eBay. When that wasn’t successful, they started selling on the side of the road, and now they accept and sell gently used clothing donations. Recently, they had a pop-up at Traders Village, and Echt took a job at TBC Consignment to learn more about the resale process. Echt and Chen are working with another Hockaday student who donates profits from embroidered items she sells to Visions for Confidence. They also joined Johnson & Johnson’s Matching Gifts program to boost fundraising. So far, they have raised about $10,000. Besides figuring out how to generate funds, Echt and Chen had to create a website. The first one they designed was “horrible,” by their own admission. But they’re feeling much better about version 2.0. “It was a long process to get to where we are today,” Echt says. Echt and Chen are hoping to grow their organization by recruiting people who specialize in other kinds of fine arts and starting a club at Hockaday. “There are a lot of communities right now that we’ve seen that aren’t able to get any resources for fine arts,” Chen says. “And we thought that being able to be a team and work together, that we could reach those communities and help bring fine arts to them.” OCTOBER 2021

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