John Carrick:  

My Mom and I opened the Sand Mountain Coffee House where people like Jerry Jeff, Guy Clark, Towns, Janice, and hundreds of other amazing talents played. Not long after that I joined the Marines and did that for a while. Lots of fun that was. When I came back I became both a peace activist and a serious drug addict. I bet a lot of you did that too. When the war ended, I gave up on the the anti war stuff, but I continued with my serious schedual A narcotic addiction. I did a lot of music, I was a conductor for Southern Pacific Rail Road, I opened the first club on 6th street in Austin, I had two totaly ridiculous marriages and one great daughter. A year after she was born I went into treatment, got in the program and have remained clean and sober for almost 23 years. I met my life companion and we raised my daughter and had a lot of out door type adventures all over the country. I had a music store in Houston for about 12 years . The last 5 years it was open it was next to Rockafellers at the corner of Washington Ave. and Heights Blvd. When the daughter was grown, my companion and I sold our house in the Heights for way too much money and moved to Wimberley Texas where we lived in a modest log cabin on the banks of the Blanco River. I have continued to play music regularly as a part of my life. I buy and sell vintage guitars a...Expand for more