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A Weekend in the East Texas Town That Invented the Boogie-Woogie
“Attaboy—ya see the road okay?” Robbie Shoults says in his deep East Texas drawl as he sidles up to my ten-year-old son, Crosby, in Shoults’s side-by-side. Crosby, peering a few inches over the wheel, looks dangerously confident. We’ve only just met Shoults and his wife, Tracy, on their 1,500-acre ranch outside Marshall, and he has correctly assessed that the only native-born Texan in our family has a need for speed.Chauffeured by my unlicensed son, we spend the next hour hurdling over ruts and splashing through creeks underneath towering pines, through a pasture of unsuspecting longhorn cattle. Shoults, wearing a straw cowboy hat and chuckling the easy laugh of a well-practiced father and grandfather, pronounces Crosby to be a good driver—“just a little heavy-footed.” In the…The post A Weekend in the East Texas Town That Invented the Boogie-Woogie appeared first on Texas Monthly.