Larry Joe Taylor’s 21st Annual Texas Music Festival
Larry Joe Taylor’s Annual Texas Music Festival & Chili Cook Off (also known as the Best Outdoor Music Event in Texas) will be celebrating year 21 in 2009! The 21st annual Songwriter Festival is expanding to a 5-day event scheduled for Tuesday April 21stthrough Saturday April 25th at Melody Mountain Ranch and RV Park.
Nestled in the hills 5 miles north of Stephenville, Texas, the elevation of this 380 acre ranch makes it the 3rd highest point in Erath County allowing for spectacular views of the surrounding countryside. Thousands of loyal fans make the annual pilgrimage and camp on site to enjoy the music and the breathtaking panorama, which alone is worth the price of admission! Melody Mountain is very near the center of Texas making it easily accessible from all of the major metropolitan areas in the state. The ranch has 30 full drive through hook ups, 250 sites with electricity, ample primitive camping, showers, a 7000 square foot indoor facility, and an outdoor covered pavilion with a stage. Nearby, Stephenville, “The Cowboy Capitol of the World” and a community that was included in Norman Crampton’s “The 100 Best Small Towns in America” provides over 800 motel rooms for non-campers and a place festival patrons can enjoy a variety of area restaurants and antique stores and stock up on supplies at the grocery, hardware and discount stores.
Venues for singer/songwriters were almost non-existent 20 years ago. The advent of the Larry Joe Taylor Texas Music Festival and Chili Cook off was an effort to provide a music friendly environment in which both the artists and fans felt welcome and on common ground. The early years found most patrons to be die hard veteran music fans from the 70’s “outlaw” era or avid “chili cooks” who also happened to like original music. Steadily the festival grew and an increasing number of the early outlaw music fans began to attend, often with their young children in tow. To accommodate growing numbers, the site of this festival has moved from it’s original location in Mingus, Texas to Thurber, Possum Kingdom, Glen Rose, Meridian, and now to a permanent home on the hills just outside Stephenville, Texas. Around year number 10, the children who had accompanied their parents in the early years were beginning to come of age. These young adults began bringing their friends and the crowd rapidly became a diverse mix of all ages and backgrounds. During festival number 11 or 12 we felt like everything was coming together for this genre of music. Acts like Pat Green were bringing in the college crowd and guys like Rusty Wier, Ray Wylie Hubbard and Steven Fromholz were helping bring the Progressive Country crowd out of hibernation. The lesser-known singer/songwriters on the bill had the opportunity to perform in front of these large and diverse crowds and develop their own fans. It was almost like the “summer of love”. The older fans were cooking barbeque and chili for the young ones who had arrived with nothing but a three-day-supply of beer, and the young fans were digging the same music and breathing new life into a twelve-year old festival. The festival ultimately became a rallying point for the “new” original country music scene and reached a level of national recognition several years ago when Performing Songwriter Magazine ranked it as one of the Top Four Music Festivals in the state of Texas. The event increasingly gained a reputation for being the springboard for many talented but unknown singer/songwriters and bands as well as staging well known artists from the past and present. “Melody Mountain” seems a fitting final resting place for an event that has always continued traditions year after year of camping out, picking, singing and telling stories around a campfire and showcasing only the best original music in the nation.
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