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Jim Lutz

Some see the glass as half full. Others see the glass as half empty. I see the glass as being twice

About Me

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Guitarist in Austin Texas, keeping busy working with a few different singers and bands such as Cornell Hurd, Bret Graham, The Can't Hardly Playboys, Billy Dee, Jack and the Jillted and various and sundry other artists over the years including Johnny Bush, Johnny Rodriguez, Hank Thompson, Dotsy, and others. I also teach guitar every week. Life is good and I am grateful for all I have. About me? Like every other human, I'm just a flash in eternity. I'm here for a relatively few short years on earth, and I'm trying not to waste too much time being negative or hurtful. My life is in music, and I use the guitar as my medium. If I could go back and start over on an instrument, I might choose to use the piano, or saxophone. The guitar is the peoples medium. It seems everyone plays guitar. I'm just another one. I play some styles very well, I stink at others. That holds true for lots of things in my life. Some things I've learned pretty well, some I just can't get. I'd like to think I'm still growing and evolving as a person. I am married to my very best friend in the world. She makes me so delightfully mad every day. She also plays bass and I really dig gigging with her, because I can look across the stage at her and she will make a face at me and almost make me lose my place. Plus, if she's on the bass, I know I can trust that the right changes will be under my guitar playing, and that is always a great thing for a guitar player to feel. People tell me I'm hard to get to know, but believe me it's worth it.

My Interests

Interests? Enjoying my life. Enjoying good music. Tolerating bad music. Observing people in an amateurish sociological sort of way. Meeting good people. Tolerating bad people. Reading, watching the NFL and rooting for the Packers. Travel, coffee, sleep. Our Dogs. All dogs. I’m a Dog From Every Town, by the way. Playing guitar. Fixing guitars. Making guitars play and feel good. Guitars make me feel good too. Life works like that. Talking about politics and religion, what is wrong with both, and what to do about it.

I'd like to meet:

Lots of people I'd like to meet, most of them are no longer among us. Hank Williams, Barney Kessel, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Will Rogers, FDR, Charlie Christian, Eldon Shamblin....

Music:


I dig real Country Music, Bakersfield Twang, Hillbilly, Bluegrass, Jazz from the 40's through the 60's, Blues, Swing, Western Swing, R & B, Cajun, Zydeco, any music that has a good groove and a discernible melody and shows some taste.

Movies:

Lots of movies I'd watch repeatedly I guess. Sling Blade, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, pretty much any of the Coen Brother movies are good for multiple viewings. Back To The Future, The Shawshank Redemption, movies adapted from John Irving novels - Garp, Hotel New Hampshire, Cider House Rules, Door In The Floor - old classics like Bogart/Bacall stuff, westerns and war movies I saw as a kid - all the John Wayne stuff. I'm pretty eclectic on movies. I also like some artsy stuff, like Run Lola Run, movies like that. I like thrillers, suspense, drama, but not horror, or sci-fi or any of the modern stupid comic stuff. Not a fan of mean humor or dumb stuff. Dumb is dumb, and mean is just mean. I can do better than that...

Television:

I try not to get caught up in watching too much TV . The older I get, the more depressing TV becomes. TV is like a window into our cultural psyche and it's painful to see what we're becoming as a culture. It perpetuates a feeling of helplessness and causes anxiety, and I say 'no thanks' to that.

Books:

Shelves full of them. Stacks and piles and boxes filled with books. John Irving novels (most all of them), James Michener mini-epics, Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (and I happen to know a real life Ignatius, lucky me), When Pride Still Mattered by David Maraniss, Roy Buchanan American Axe by Phil Carson, Skydog the Duane Allman Story by Randy Poe, The World of Mike Royko by Doug Moe, Sing Your Heart Out Country Boy, by Dorothy Horstman, Steinbecks Grapes of Wrath and Sinclair's The Jungle, read most of Ayn Rand....

Heroes:

My Dad and Mom, Karen, my son and my daughter. I admire, respect and learn from them daily.

My Blog

Tales From Wisconsin, Vol. 2

Shortie Points, Snowshoes and Agnostic Rifles We stopped at a yard sale the other day on our way to the park.  We were on a hunt for some extra lawn furniture, some chairs or loungers to relax on...
Posted by Jim Lutz on Wed, 16 May 2007 10:41:00 PST

Tales From Wisconsin, Vol. 1

The Hole To Nowhere 1972.  I turned 16 in January, and got my first car within two weeks.  It took that long because I couldn't get my drivers license right away, I had to wait to take my ex...
Posted by Jim Lutz on Mon, 14 May 2007 11:21:00 PST

The Vast Wasteland

The Vast Wasteland&Television.    I've come to accept the fact that television is a hundred channels of mindless drivel.  One network comes up with some successful gimmick program and ...
Posted by Jim Lutz on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:46:00 PST

What the hell is it about potatoes in Texas??

I'm serious.  What is this deal with messing with potatoes?    I mean, what could be better than a nice simple side of mashed potatoes next to your meatloaf, or chicken or whatever...
Posted by Jim Lutz on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 05:51:00 PST

Well Well Well.....

.....who would have thought this crazy old man would ever join the 21st century and find himself on MySpace.   Bear with me as I navigate the web, casting opinions, thoughts, and general hol...
Posted by Jim Lutz on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:51:00 PST