I was fortunate enough to actually be come friends with the great entertainer Rusty Wier, best known for the song "Don't it make you wanna dance" from the Urban Cowboy movie but known about Texas as a hell of a songwriter, musician and entertainer.

I followed Rusty in the original Cosmic Cowboy scare back in 1974, ran into him again in the 80's, then trough Larry Joe got to really know him and spend time with him in the 2000's.

Rusty passed from this life on October 9th, 2009. One year to the day I would lose my mom on October 9th.

Some of the best Comments I heard after Rusty's passing:
There were Performers, There were Songwriters, there were Entertainers. Then there was Rusty Wier ~ Zack Taylor
One fan or 20,000. Same show every time. ~ Andy Tarrant (Rusty's long time bass player)

Larry Joe was hit really hard by the loss of his good friend Rusty.
He asked me to do a photo shoot at Sunrise in Port Aransas to commemorate Rusty's song "Sunrise in Port A".

Larry wrote and recorded this song in a Live DVD and raised funds to have a sculpture made of Rusty that is ever prominent at Melody Mountain music events and has been loaned to places such as the Saxon Pup in Austin where Rusty held forth weekly for years.
I scoured the sources I had for images of Rusty in most all stages of his career, laid the with Larry's song and this is what I got.

I hope you enjoy.

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