1971年，自封市长汉多·克劳奇将这座得州小镇变成了乡村音乐明星的乡间休憩胜地。
In 1971, self-appointed mayor Hondo Crouch turned the Texan town into a rural respite for country stars.
很快，它因登顶排行榜的歌曲而名留青史，并成为简朴美国生活的一个象征。
1973年夏，美国乡村歌手杰里·杰夫·沃克来到人迹罕至之处，录制他日后成为经典的名作《¡Viva Terlingua!》。
Soon it was immortalised in chart-topping songs – and became a symbol of a simpler American life In the summer of 1973, the US country singer Jerry Jeff Walker was in the middle of nowhere, recording his soon-to-be-classic album ¡Viva Terlingua!.
在得克萨斯州卢肯巴赫、奥斯汀以西70英里的一座旧舞厅里，人群挤得水泄不通。一根延长线从舞厅一直延伸到外面的录音车上。
A crowd was packed to the rafters in an old dancehall 70 miles west of Austin, in Luckenbach, Texas. An extension lead ran from the hall to a recording truck outside.
那天夜里众人散去后，沃克站在街头，对卢肯巴赫自封的市长汉多·克劳奇说：“不知道我们刚才做了什么。”
After everyone had gone home that night, Walker stood in the street and said to Hondo Crouch, Luckenbach’s self-appointed mayor: “I wonder what we just did.”
两年前，克劳奇买下这座小镇时，镇上只有三个人——而根据2021年最近一次人口普查，这里又恢复到了同样的数字。
When Crouch had bought the town two years prior, its population was just three people – and according to the most recent census in 2021, it’s back at the same number.
然而在20世纪70年代，随着沃克及其同行纷纷前往，这座破旧不堪的小镇却繁荣起来，卢肯巴赫也成了乡村音乐最重要、同时最出人意料的中心之一。
But in the 1970s, this ramshackle town thrived as Walker and his peers headed there, and Luckenbach became one of the most improbable yet important centres for country music.