Waylon Jennings' 1977 hit "Luchenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics Of Love)" turned the ghost town from a Texas hideaway into a country music bucket list stop. You know, everybody's somebody in Luchenbach. No matter if you're grabbing a cold drink at the General Store, taking a picture at the Post Office, or getting ready for live music at the Dance Hall, this little paradise in the Texas Hill Country is where everyone goes back to the basics of love.

"Luchenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics Of Love)"

The classic country tune was written by Bobby Emmons and Chip Moman, Jennings' producer. Moman knew the best way to get Jennings to record a song was to tell him something along the lines of, "you can't have this song, but I want you to listen to it anyway!" Of course, Moman wasn't sure Jennings would want the song anyway because it mentioned the country star by name right in the chorus, along with other artists like Willie Nelson, Mickey Newberry and Jerry Jeff Walker.

Thankfully, Jennings didn't mind singing his own name and decided the song would be perfect for his next record Ol Waylon, the very first country record to advance sales of 500,000 units before the album was ever released and the first country record to debut in the No. 1 position on the Billboard country album chart.

The day Jennings was in Nashville recording, Willie Nelson dropped by unannounced, and Jennings asked him to lend his voice on the recording. Nelson recorded the last verse of the song and even added a few lyrical changes.

The song was released on April 16, 1977, and made Billboard history. It was the first single to debut in the top half of the country chart, coming in at No. 48. It eventually claimed the No. 1 spot just a few weeks later, on May 21, and spent six weeks there.

Guests of the bar in Luchenbach play guitars under some trees in Luchenbach (Texas), USA, 19 March 2013. German is spoken in the middle of Texas. Descendants of German settlers meet at the bar every evening. They speak their German-English dialect to save it from extinction.

The Texas town is now a hub for country music fans. So, spend a day in Fredericksburg and a night in Luchenbach and feel just like Waylon, Willie and the boys!