Old codger.
I called in one time to ask about when Rodney Crowell would be playing in Austin and my phone dropped the signal and he made a disparaging remark about callers hanging up on him. I called back in about 2 minutes later and he told me I should have been listening already and that Rodney Crowell would not be performing in Austin for at least the next year.
This seems like platitudes, but he was a curmudgeon.
I'll always remember that.
My dad thinks Sammy is a huge hippy because of my uncle that went to tu back in the early 70s, but he listened to him pretty much every day. He always liked to grumble about what Sammy had to say. That's a piece of Austin that you can't replace.