TEXARKANA MAGAZINE
“I grew up out where the ditches were. You could find a culvert and tie bacon on a string and catch crawdads. We had horses and cows. On Saturdays my brother and I would work with my dad on rental properties. I helped roof my house. I rode my bike to school and had a chain to lock it to the bike rack.” “We lived on Sleepy Hollow and there was a patch of woods behind it that all of us kids thought we owned. When we first moved there, I met three guys up in a treehouse and they told me they’d teach me how to be a ninja. (I never became a ninja.)” “My next-door neighbor was Brad Johnson and one of the best nights of my life was sleeping in a tent in his backyard and hearing Bryan Adams “Summer of ’69” with a fire burning that we made. It was awesome. We were living. There were so many friends that were in the neighborhood, and if we weren’t in the woods shooting BB guns or throwing dirt clods, we were in someone’s front yard playing football until whoever owned the football got mad and took their Nerf ball home, game over.”
FROM DAVID TO CROWDER BY KARA HUMPHREY PHOTOS COURTESY OF DAVID CROWDER A bove is a familiar story with similarities to which most kids who grew up in this area during the 80s and 90s can relate—a childhood filled with the simple, charming things that make Texarkana’s Generation X long for the good ol’ days. But this particular story belongs to five-time Grammy nominated, 13-time Dove Award-winning artist, David Crowder. His life beyond these backwoods and crawdad holes has taken twists and turns he never expected, and his impact and career have touched countless fans worldwide.
Trucker hats and a beard that rivals those of ZZ Top members are his trademarks. However, his musical style is a little harder to pin down. From album to album, his music shifts and evolves, surprising listeners and drawing in people with a variety of preferences.
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COMMUNITY & CULTURE
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