The Lost Gonzo Band, which played on some of the most influential albums of Texas music of the early 1970s — backing Michael Martin Murphey and Jerry Jeff Walker — is playing the Luck Reunion 2022 festival Thursday at Willie Nelson’s ranch outside Austin, marking the group’s 50th anniversary.
The performance brings together bandmates Bob Livingston, Gary P. Nunn and John Inmon, along with drummer Freddie Krc, and follows their first reunion show at Austin’s Gruene Hall in October. Murphey will join them on the festival bill.
“It if weren’t for Gary P. Nunn, there might not have been a South by Southwest,” says conference co-founder Roland Swenson, recalling when he first learned to drive in the ’70s and attended Nunn’s shows around Austin — a decade before helping to launch SXSW to showcase music and ideas.
Coinciding with SXSW, the Luck Reunion festival takes place in Luck, Texas, 30 miles northwest of Austin, a movie-set town originally built in 1985 on Willie Nelson’s ranch as the backdrop for a film adaptation of his classic album Red Headed Stranger. For a decade, the festival organizers, Luck Presents, have hosted an all-day celebration of music, food and crafts on the site.
