The Texas Quote of the Day finds artist and songwriter Paul Milosovich telling a few stories about the legendary BBQ cook C.B. Stubblefield, aka "Stubbs." "One cold February night in 1980, Stubbs came by my house about midnight. I had seen him a few days earlier and told him I was delivering some artwork to Johnny Cash in Nashville. He said he would like to cook up some "cabrito" for Mr. Cash. Stubbs showed up in a car I had never seen. He explained that "somebody named Chuck" loaned it to him for the trip. It had an 8-track tape player that worked if you wedged in a book of matches underneath the tape. Stubbs had a shoe box full of blues tapes and an 8mm movie camera he got at Huber’s Pawn Shop for $15. "We’re gonna make a movie of this trip," he said. (The movie camera had film in it with some footage of a Mexican wedding in Lubbock which was the "lead-in" to the start of our Nashville trip.) Climbing into the car, I asked Stubbs if he had a map. He said, "No." "Do you know how to get to Nashville?" I wondered. "I think you go through Benjamin," he smiled. We hit a lot of barbecue joints between Lubbock and Nashville and Stubbs was critical of most of it. He liked some we got in Memphis (Leonard’s) and at a 7-11 in Seymour, Texas. He told me about being in the Korean Conflict, driving a truck down a steep hill one night during a blackout, "We had to go over this rickety wooden bridge," he said. "Nobody knew if it would hold our trucks. Paul, it was dark as this," he said, turning off the lights. Stubbs drove about 80mph, generally, and he finished the Korean story hurtling through the blackness somewhere around Texarkana. (Stubbs did cook cabrito for Johnny Cash, slept in Jimmy Carter’s bed at Tom T. Hall’s place, was invited backstage at Opryland, and the $15 movie camera worked fine.) Another time, in winter, Stubbs was driving up to Lubbock from Austin. It was warm when he left Austin, so he wasn’t worried that his heater wasn’t hooked up. A "blue norther" caught him around Sweetwater. The windshield frosted over and his feet and hands started to get numb. Again, it was about 3 am, his favorite time to drive. Stubbs stopped at a 7-11, bought a dozen candles, lit them and spread them out across the dashboard. It must have been an eerie sight to other motorists that night, seeing this long sedan creeping down the highway with a black man peering out through a row of candles. "I had to stop 3 or 4 times to get more candles before I made it to Lubbock," Stubb explained." ------ Paul Milosovich describes life with the warm-hearted, generous soul that everybody called "Stubbs." Shown here: C.B. Stubblefield with Buddy Guy and Stevie Ray Vaughan