Thursday, April 29, 2021

To the Republic ~ Lone Star Book Blog Tours Playlist & Giveaway!

TO THE REPUBLIC
The Republic Series, Book One
BY BRUCE CLAVEY

Publication Date: October 26th, 2020
Pages: 394 pages
Categories: Hispanic American Fiction / Political Fiction

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A novel for our times. A saga for the ages.

On the eve of passing landmark immigration legislation, the entire Texas Senate and its native Tejano leader, Diego Reyes, vanish suddenly from Austin. When news of the disappearance hits West Texas, cowboy Del Woodward isn't shocked. He knows exactly where the lawmakers are, but he's not telling. Woody's been down on his luck, and a shady bargain he's made puts him tight in the squeeze of Marcos Cepeda, north Mexico's ruthless drug lord. And Cepeda's furious with this new stall in the bill. It's got a loophole he can exploit to add another quarter million square miles of exclusive turf to his cartel—but that territory goes back up for grabs if leader Reyes can't pass the bill before the Senate session expires in mere days. The brutal kingpin wants what he's bought and compels Woody to step up. How the cowboy swings the vote isn't important to Cepeda, but this sure is: if Woody breathes so much as a word of reluctance, it'll be his last. The prize is Texas, nothing less. It's real, and it's on.

The Republic Series launches from true pages of the Lone Star frontera story into a hauntingly modern arena of trade, trafficking, and tradition on the Rio Grande in To the Republic: BOOK ONE.
An Amazon #1 New Release in History of U.S. Immigration

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Author Bruce Clavey shares the music that inspired (and inspires)

protagonist Delbert Woodward of To the Republic

If Del Woodward doesn't cop to any rhyme or reason in the music he loves, it's because he doesn't see it. Not so for diner patrons who gaze across the table as he flips through jukebox cards and plunks quarters into the box; they just marvel at how his selections thread the cardinal points of the Lone Star musical map. Friends find Woody's Texas in that wide open yonder between Asleep at the Wheel and ZZ Top, LaGrange and Luckenbach, Waylon and Willie.

Woody won't turn off a good country song, but he can tell you the western artists that inspired any of the Billboard greats. If he had to grab one CD on a mad dive from a burning car, it'd be the gunslinging, desert-wandering, bronc-busting ballads of Marty Robbins. Saturday nights now and then, he'll cross into Ojinaga to visit the little taqueria that's roamed by mariachi who serve up melancholic melodies of señoritas refusing to be won. They put Woody in the mind of his Aracely, the Austin woman who stole his heart some years back, only to toss it out the car window. Woody can't say as he's still got her or she's got away; that's a song in itself. But it's the kind of troubles the good Lord and his humble servant, Don Julio, made añejo tequila to help folks sort out. Woody will sip a little in the wee hours when the norteño and sierreño airwaves trickle up from the deep south and into the hiss of his ranch house radio.

So, here's a little lineup of tunes Del Woodward has come by every which a way. Shuffle if you like, but if you leave the deck stacked how it comes, you'll hear what he calls his Dawn-to-Dusk, Day-in-the-Life-Of. Some are gems he first heard in the glory days of K-tel vinyl; others are classics from a handful of artists he's actually been pleased to meet. A few of them he just always seemed to know. Just don't let that classical Rossini composition in slot #2 cross your eyes too bad; over the years, many a dude has unwound his cayuse to the 200-year-old barnbuster.

PLAYLIST SELECTIONS

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Song

Performer

Album

1

Our Last Days As Children – From “Friday Night Lights” Soundtrack

Explosions in the Sky

Friday Night Lights (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2

The Lone Ranger Theme (William Tell Overture)

John Morgan Orquestra (Gioachino Rossini, 1832)

El Cine Del Oeste

3

Tumblin’ Tumbleweed / Cool Water

Rex Allen Jr. & Rex Allen Sr.

The Singing Cowboys

4

You’re from Texas (Live)

Asleep at the Wheel

Asleep at the Wheel (Live)

5

(Ghost) Riders in the Sky

Johnny Cash

Silver

6

Big Bad John

Jimmy Dean

Jimmy Dean’s Greatest Hits

7

Tu Enamorado

Jose Alfredo Jimenez

Las 100 Clasicas Vol. 1

8

On the Road Again - Live

Willie Nelson

The Essential Willie Nelson

9

Route 66

The Time Jumpers

Jumpin’ Time

10

Whip Out A Yodel

Wylie & The Wild West

Bucking Horse Moon

11

Every Which-a-Way

The Quebe Sisters Band

Every Which-a-Way

12

El Paso

Marty Robbins

Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

13

Ride Cowboy Ride

Rex Allen Jr. & Rex Allen Sr.

The Singing Cowboys

14

Narco Cholo

Lupillo Rivera

Tu Esclavo y Amo

15

Highwayman – Live at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY – March 1990

The Highwaymen, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson

Live – American Outlaws

16

La Grange

ZZ Top

Hi Five: ZZ Top

17

North to Alaska

Johnny Horton

Johnny Horton’s Greatest Hits

18

Trail Drive - Live

Sons of the San Joaquin

Live at the Western Jubilee Warehouse

19

Honeysuckle Rose

The Time Jumpers

Jumpin’ Time

20

Cattle Call

Don Walser, The Pure Texas Band

Texas Legend

21

Las Gaviotas

Antonio Aguilar

Antonio Aguilar Con Tambora

22

Don’t Fence Me In

Gene Autry

Columbia Historic Edition

23

Goin’ Away Party

The Quebe Sisters Band

Every Which-a-Way

24

Cool Water

Marty Robbins

Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

25

Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)

Waylon Jennings

Ol’ Waylon

26

Places in Texas

Shake Russell

What This Heart Holds

27

Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain

Willie Nelson

Red Headed Stranger

28

So Long to the Red River Valley

Sons of the Pioneers

Symphonies of Sage

29

Yo Quiero Ser

Vicente Fernandez

Historia de Un Idolo

30

Cowboy Night Herd Song

Roy Rogers

An Old Cowhand

31

Santa Fe Lights

Sons Of The San Joaquin

Way Out Yonder

32

Prairie Echoes

Foy Willing, Riders of the Purple Sage

Tumbling Tumbleweeds (10 Timeless Western Songs)



Bruce Clavey of Round Rock, Texas writes with a passion for exploring the Latin heritage tucked in cultural corners throughout Texas, Mexico, and Central America. In 2017, Clavey's research into perspectives on state history led to his onsite rediscovery of the Mexico City dungeon where the colonial "Father of Texas" was imprisoned, documented in his book "The Inquisition of Stephen F. Austin." His interest to illuminate compelling historic junctures brought the creation of several feature dramatizations for state museum in-exhibit performance. Clavey's release of Book One of The Republic Series in 2020 begins the journey of Texas and Mexican characters who confront the pressure points at today's vibrant river border, a land that has functioned for centuries as both international gateway and barrier.



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THREE WINNERS each receive a prize pack including: Autographed paperback copy of To the Republic; unisex tee with the "Texas Forever" design; baseball cap stitched with the "Texas Forever" design; ceramic lapel pin with the "Mano de Tejas" design; vinyl 5” decal with the "Mano deTejas" design.

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2 comments:

  1. Kristine, thanks for today's warm Hall Ways Blog ¡bienvenidos! for me, Woody, and To the Republic!

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    1. You are most welcome! A pleasure to host your fabulous book & playlist! I look forward to reading the book.

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