James R. White

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  www.LittleRickyPerkins.com/lrMedia.htm - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/31/2008    Last Visited: 5/31/2008  

  Rick, Del Pushert, Elvis' Sax player; James White, owner of the Broken Spoke; and the late great Clifford Antone.

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  www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/12/21 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/21/2007    Last Visited: 12/21/2007  

  For 25 years, James White has given various versions of the same welcoming speech to patrons of his iconic Broken Spoke honky-tonk.
  
  Speaking with the fervency of a Baptist preacher, he tells them where they are, what the Broken Spoke stands for, and one thing in life they can count on: "We ain't changing nothing."
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  Despite development plans, the Broken Spoke will won't change, says bar owner James White, front, with developers, from left, Jon Andrus, Art Carpenter and Brett Denton.
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  Performers including Willie Nelson, Ray Price and owner James White have performed at the Broken Spoke, which opened in 1964.
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  'We don't like a whole lot of change, but this is something we think is a positive,' said Broken Spoke owner James White.
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  White has no plans to change his speech despite the fact that the South Lamar Boulevard boot-scootin' spot and approximately 7 acres around it soon will be sold to developers with plans to build 300 apartments, a multistory parking garage and retail shops.
  
  Ardent Residential, Direct Development and White all say the project will not change the rustic red building or the dirt parking lot and oak trees in front.
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  The Broken Spoke has remained almost unchanged since White opened it after leaving the Army in November 1964.The dark, rambling unpretentious honky-tonk quickly attracted a following of two-steppers and country music lovers of all ages.
  
  The small stage just above the dance floor has hosted such well-known musicians as Bob Wills, Willie Nelson, Ernest Tubbs, Ray Price and George Strait, and regularly features local acts such as the Derailers, Jerry Jeff Walker, Dale Watson and White himself.
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  "We don't like a whole lot of change, but this is something we think is a positive," White said.

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  www.austin360.com/music/content/music/stories/2007/11/1 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/31/2007    Last Visited: 10/31/2007  

  James White, owner of the Broken Spoke where the originally named Geezinslaw Brothers play monthly, said he remembered the first time he saw the Geezinslaw Brothers perform , on a flatbed truck in 1954 at the opening of the Twin Oaks shopping center in South Austin.
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  "It's just a lot more fun when Sammy's on there," White said.
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  Off stage and off the air, White said, Allred revealed a quieter persona.

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  www.madisoncamerunning.com/Trooper/miller.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/10/2007    Last Visited: 9/29/2009  

  It was 1972 and Troopers Jerry Miller and James White arrive at the Connersville Post, fresh from the Indiana State Police Training Academy.
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  Trent, it was used on patrol duties in 1972/73 by his close friend, Trooper Jim White and later became the target of Jerry's dream to own and restore it for parades and display.
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  2006 Claude Trent, Jim White & Jerry Miller
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  1972 Troopers Jim White & Jerry Miller

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  Alvin Crow on LoneStarMusic.com - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/25/2008    Last Visited: 1/9/2009  

  Alvin Crow and James M. White - Austin American-Statesman - 12/5/2006

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  Board and Staff - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/2/2009    Last Visited: 11/2/2009  

  James White

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  Broken_Spoke_Legends - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/24/2005    Last Visited: 12/25/2006  

  Click HERE for Kenneth Brian and James White, Owner of the Broken Spoke in Austin, Texas!
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  In 1964, James White pondered what to do with his life after his Army stint.He loved country music as a kid and remembered the old Dessau Hall (with a tree growing in the middle of the dance floor), the Moosehead Tavern in Oak Hill and the Barn on North Lamar.James saw a need that he could fill.He liked a radio show called "Broken Arrow", liked wagon wheels and so the "Broken Spoke was named.On September 26, 1964 building started and on November 10 the "Broken Spoke" opened with 300 people there to see that it got off to a good start.By 1966 James was able to book his childhood hero, Bob Wills while other big names followed: Ernest Tubbs, Roy Acuff, Hank Thompson, Tex Ritter, Ray Price, Kitty Wells, Grandpa Jones, Willie Nelson and George Strait.While these stars have all moved on, Willie still stops in for chicken fried steak.James has displayed talent as a song writer and singer.The "Broken Spoke Legend" song which he wrote is on the Alvin Crow album "Pure country".His love for Country Music has graduated from singing in the shower and writing songs while driving down the road in his pick-up truck, to forming the Broken Spoke Company with Alvin Crowe, and to singing at the Spoke with many of the talented performers who have graced the Broken Spoke stage.He's been privileged to sing with Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and Sons of the Pioneers just for starters, but he sings weekly with all the regular multi talented bands which play at the Broken Spoke.As part of the celebration of their 25th anniversary which was 10 years ago, the Spoke set aside a room for memorabilia called "The Tourist Trap Room" with photos, hats and other items related to Country music.The Broken Spoke is a Texas treasure and an Austin tradtion appreciated around the world and has been featured many times on Austin City Limits, a famous TV show on PBS.The Spoke has some of Austin's very best local talent such as Alvin Crow, Gary P. Nunn, Sam and Son, better known as The Geezinslaw Brothers, Don Walser, Jerry Jeff Walker, The Derailers, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Chris Wall, and Dale Watson just to name a few.James likes to pride himself on continually booking the best acts that represent the true music that is live Country band music.

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  Goodbye, Clifford - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/4/2006    Last Visited: 6/6/2006  

  Crow and his band Hardcore Country held down the second slot, playing country classics, including Hank Williams' "Hey, Good Lookin' " with Broken Spoke owner James White on lead vocals.

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  Greene County Online - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/2/2003    Last Visited: 7/2/2003  

  Greeneville resident Stellania White, whose husband, James White, is a member of the Washington County-based National Guard unit, said this morning that family members have been told that an airplane carrying the local soldiers is scheduled to arrive at Ft. Campbell about 10 p.m. Saturday.
  
  Mrs. White said she and several of her husband's relatives, in addition to the families of other Greene County guardsmen, are planning to travel to Ft. Campbell on Saturday to be present when members of the 730th Quartermaster Company arrive.
  
  She also said families of the local guardsmen have been told that the unit likely will have to remain at Ft. Campbell for about a week before they are allowed to return to their home base in Washington County's Gray community.
  
  In mid-June, Mrs. White said she had been told that unit members would drive, or be bused, back to their armory in Gray from Ft. Campbell.
  
  She said a welcome-home celebration is expected to be held in Gray when the unit returns there.
  
  In mid-June, she said, the 730th's numbers had dwindled to only 83 men and women, who were then in Kuwait, following military service in Iraq.
  
  A number of 730th Quartermaster Company members had already been sent home because of illnesses and injuries, she said.
  
  James White, a fuel specialist who drove a 5,000-gal. fuel tanker during the war in Iraq, was injured during fighting in Baghdad when another vehicle struck one of his tanker truck's rear-view mirrors, throwing glass fragments into his face and one of his hands, according to his wife.
  
  "He had to have minor surgery on his hand," she said.
  
  She noted that, until he was called to active duty in late January, her husband had been a teacher's aide at Chuckey-Doak High School and the driver of Greene County School Bus No. 19.

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  Honky Tonk Texas, USA - CD-ROM - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/23/2005    Last Visited: 9/3/2009  

  Featured are: Poodie Locke , longtime road manager for Willie Nelson; Hondo Crouch, founder of Luckenbach, Texas and the Luckenbach dance hall ("...everybody's somebody in Luckenbach..."); James White, founder and operator of the Broken Spoke dance hall in Austin; David Reese, patron of the progressive country movement and longtime friend of Willie Nelson; Manny Gammage, the famous Texas hatter;and Ben Dorcy, valet and confidant to John Wayne, Patsy Cline and Willie Nelson.

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