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Fredericksburg’s Pioneer Museum continues with its Roots Music series. I got to visit with its next performer—a Texas Music legend. He’s Gary P. Nunn, and anyone who knows Texas Music knows he’s…

“Jack of all trades!” he laughed.

Although he claims to be a master of none, his track record shows otherwise.

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As to his musical roots, they’re surprising.

“Well, I’ve been all over the board. I started out playing Ventures, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and that sort of stuff when I was just a kid" he reminisced.  "‘Course, we went through the 60s and learned how to play all the Cream and Hendrix tunes.”

He made his way to Austin not long before the Cosmic Cowboy music explosion of the early 70s.

"We had fun. We were some of the very first acts to perform on Austin City Limits, and then they picked up my tune”

His tune is London Homesick Blues which Austin City Limits used as thei