Hearing was Rusty Wier’s last sense to go, so although he was nearly unresponsive when surrounded by relatives and friends, including Jerry Jeff Walker, at his son Coby’s house in Driftwood on Thursday night, Wier tried to raise up his head when the group sang “Incredible Grace.” By the next morning, the Austin musician, who had a hit when Bonnie Raitt covered his “Don’t It Make You Wanna Dance” on the soundtrack to “Urban Cowboy,” was dead after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 65. “There’s this myth about the hippies and the rednecks meeting at the Armadillo (World Headquarters) and passin
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