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Article by Steve Crozier

Area resident and country singer-songwriter Darryl Lee Rush was chatting with a Nashville record producer type recently. The record producer was gushing about “The Austin Sound.” Darryl shot back, “That’s nothing. You should hear The Lakewood Sound!”

Rush had made up “The Lakewood Sound” on the spot, but after thinking it over, he muses that it might have legs. “Where else in Dallas would you find such a concentration of musicians?” he asks.

Where else indeed. But Rush adopted this neighborhood. He was born near the Gulf coast near the cotton and milo fields of south central Texas.

Lessons for fruitcake

There wasn’t much to do in Markham, Texas, where Rush grew up, so music became an important part of his life early on In the sixth grade he started learning the guitar from the uncle of a friend, a narcoleptic bluegrass guitarist. Known to Darryl and the other citizens of Markham only as “Uncle Neg,” the guitarist had quite an impact on young Rush. And the price was right. In return for weekly lessons, Rush’s mother made Uncle Neg a fruitcake once a year in payment.

“Uncle Neg’s narcolepsy was a little disconcerting,” says Rush. “We’d head down to the store with Uncle Neg at the wheel and he’d forbid me to talk to him. He was afraid I’d make him laugh, his blood pressure would go up, and pretty soon he’d be asleep at the wheel.” But the man could play, and he taught Rush well.

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