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AFTERNOONS WITH DARRELL
Wright completes book on songwriter Staedtler
Dana Wright shows off an enlarged photo of songwriter Darrell Staedtler from 1962, when he performed at Evan’s Auditorium in San Marcos. Wright recently finished her book on the Llano songwriter, Saving Stories: Afternoons with Darrell. It is available locally at Texana Outfitters and online at www.danaknoxwright.com.
John Verser

For a string of summer weeks starting four years ago, Dana Wright and Darrell Staedtler met once a week in a small music studio on the north side of the Llano River. Staedtler, wearing his standard baseball cap as he sat in a large, swallowing, mustard yellow wingback chair, and Wright, sitting on a tiny piano bench, talked country music and life as the old songwriter told stories about luminaries such as George Strait, Patsy Cline and other famous stars.

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