Word: crouching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Andrae Crouch brings the gospel to Soledad Prison...
...inmates is a cauldron of latent racial violence. In its 26-year history, 18 inmates have slaughtered one another in the name of black or white supremacy. Last week, as part of a continual effort to promote racial harmony, prison authorities held a concert by Gospel Singer Andrae Crouch, a black. TIME Correspondent James Wilde attended. His report...
...words were sung with a fervor that touched everyone in the hall. The audience ignited with applause. Andrae Crouch and the Disciples, 1977's top gospel group, had triumphed in the "gladiator school"-the inmates' name for Soledad Prison-on the threshold of the new year...
...pervasive atmosphere of violence and tension. One section of the prison unit was still locked up after the near-fatal stabbing of a white inmate on Christmas Day. Several days before the concert, 18 men were confined to the maximum-control unit of the penitentiary for insubordination. When Crouch arrived at Soledad with his multiracial band (four whites, five blacks), the chaplain cautioned them uneasily: "In the event of any disturbance, obey the instructions of the custodial personnel. Don't get excited. Don't get involved...
With one house, a crumbling blacksmith shop, a dance hall and a combination post office-saloon, Luckenbach belongs on an MGM back lot. Its rise began in 1970 when a slow-talking rancher and raconteur named Hondo Crouch bought up half the town, supposedly because of his unhappiness with the saloon's irregular hours. Soon the place was a laid-back, beer-stocked afternoon retreat for country musicians. Among them: Jerry Jeff Walker, who brought old pals like Willie Nelson by for a visit and in 1973 recorded his Viva Terlingua album there...