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'''Five children''':<br>

'''Five children''':<br>

Tommy Joaquin Hancock<br>

Tommy Joaquin Hancock<br>

'Traci Lamar Hancock<br>

Traci Lamar Hancock<br>

Conni Hancock<br>

Conni Hancock<br>

Two others, names missing<br>

Two others, names missing<br>

After military service as a paratrooper and policeman at the end of [[World War II]], he performed with the Cotton Club band in his native [[Lubbock]]. The band was named the Roadside Playboys, “connoisseurs of hillbilly swing,” according to Curtis lee Peoples (born 1967), the archivist of the Crossroads Music Archive at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library in Lubbock. After a fire, Hancock opened another Cotton Club in the 1960s and then a third Cotton Club after still another fire. His club was a place for [[cowboy]]s and the counterculture, according to the Texas State Historical Association.<ref name=laj>{{cite web|url=https://www.lubbockonline.com/entertainment/20200102/godfather-of-west-texas-music-tommy-hancock-dies-at-90|title='Godfather of West Texas Music' Tommy Hancock dies at 90|publisher=''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=January 2, 2020|author=Sarah Self-Warbrick|accessdate=January 18, 2020}}</ref>

After military service as a paratrooper and policeman at the end of [[World War II]], he performed with the Cotton Club band in his native [[Lubbock]]. The band was named the Roadside Playboys, “connoisseurs of hillbilly swing,” according to Curtis lee Peoples (born 1967), the archivist of the Crossroads Music Archive at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library in Lubbock. After a fire, Hancock opened another Cotton Club in the 1960s and then a third Cotton Club after still another fire. His club was a place for [[cowboy]]s and the counterculture, according to the Texas State Historical Association.<ref name=laj>{{cite web|url=https://www.lubbockonline.com/entertainment/20200102/godfather-of-west-texas-music-tommy-hancock-dies-at-90|title='Godfather of West Texas Music' Tommy Hancock dies at 90|publisher=''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=January 2, 2020|author=Sarah Self-Warbrick|accessdate=January 18, 2020}}</ref>

Hancock was an early supporter of acts like [[Buddy Holly]], [[Waylon Jennings]], Sonny Curtis, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock (no relation), and the second-generation Maines Brothers Band. He and his wife, the former Charlene Condray (born 1938), a native of Morton in Cochran County, also in West Texas, and their children left Lubbock in the 1970s. After numerous moves, they settled in 1980 in [[Austin]]. The family toured for years as The Supernatural Family Band. Charlene Hancock and daughters Traci Lamar and Conni later performed as The Texana Dames.<ref name=laj/> They also had a son, Tommy Joaquin Hancock (born 1961), a resident of Austin.

Hancock was an early supporter of acts like [[Buddy Holly]], Waylon Jennings, Sonny Curtis, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock (no relation), and the second-generation Maines Brothers Band. He and his wife, the former Charlene Condray (born 1938), a native of Morton in Cochran County, also in West Texas, and their children left Lubbock in the 1970s. After numerous moves, they settled in 1980 in [[Austin]]. The family toured for years as The Supernatural Family Band. Charlene Hancock and daughters Traci Lamar and Conni later performed as The Texana Dames.<ref name=laj/> They also had a son, Tommy Joaquin Hancock (born 1961), a resident of Austin.

Hancock was also a dancer. In 1998, he published a book “Zen and the Art of the Texas Two-Step." Some called him “Lubbock’s original [[hippie]]” and used [[LSD]], according tto a 2004 profile in ''The Austin Chronicle.''<ref name=laj/>

Hancock was also a dancer. In 1998, he published a book “Zen and the Art of the Texas Two-Step." Some called him “Lubbock’s original [[hippie]]” and used [[LSD]], according tto a 2004 profile in ''The Austin Chronicle.''<ref name=laj/>