‘It’s my people’: Musician Hooker’s in his element in West Texas

TURKEY — Jake Hooker likes to play his music out under the West Texas stars, and plenty of fans of Western Swing and his kind of country songs will flock to hear him in just such a setting — even at the end of a very hot day in the little town of Turkey. “When the sun goes down, under the Texas Stars, that’s where I am the most comfortable,” Hooker said August 19 in a brief pre-concert interview…