Despite the fact that I am no kind of dancer, I am an absolute Texas dancehall enthusiast. Martina took this picture of the extremely photogenic Greenwood Dancehall and Saloon in Bluff Dale. The building, erected in 1897, was originally a mercantile store up at Chalk Mountain, and a couple of decades later it was dragged to Glen Rose to serve several other commercial functions before finally coming to rest in Bluff Dale in the 2000s. After seeing the place, I told a buddy that it was somewhere between Gruene Hall and Luckenbach, which is funny considering that after looking online I saw that other folks had the same impression. This, of course, is about as fine a recommendation as a music venue can get, and the owners clearly pay homage to these two venerable halls. For example, old Texas license plates are used to cover holes in the floor a la Gruene Hall, and the Sunday picking circle comes straight out of the Luckenbach playbook. And heck, there are even boots hanging from the ceiling like at John T. Floore's Country Store in Helotes. This place is like a Texas dancehall greatest hits album.
Being no kind of dancer, I thought I would share a link to Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis' cover of "No Kinda Dancer" by Robert Earl Keene. They are playing at one of my favorite venues, the Continental Club Gallery in Austin.
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