‘Luckenbach, Texas’ A Reason To Smile DAN RATHER AND TEAM STEADY JUN 2 Credit: Getty Images I want to take a moment to thank you for supporting this effort. We have many new followers and subscribers to Steady, which is appreciated and humbling. I’m grateful you are choosing to join us, and we hope to make it worth your while.  This has been a good week for democracy, for justice, and for the rule of law. We’ve gone through some tough times and endured some dark days, and while I don’t necessarily consider it a cause for celebration, the decision by a brave group of New York jurors is uplifting and encouraging. The noise from MAGA has been loud and unrelenting. That should tell you something. The verdict struck a nerve.   Here’s something to help drown out the noise. It has no historical or musical significance to celebrate this week — I just like it. I hope you do too.  Four great country artists appeared together as The Highwaymen back in 1990. Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson — that’s a lot of talent on one stage. The song, originally released by Waylon in 1977, quickly became a number-one hit. It tells of a couple’s painful “rise to high society” and asks why “don’t we get back to the basics of love?” Waylon’s idea to solve their problems is to move to Luckenbach, which is a real town, no bigger than a minute, in the Texas Hill Country. Please feel free to sing along, and I hope it brings a smile.