Author: James Ellis
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Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble’s Final Album
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Stevie Ray Vaughan is the figurehead opposite Willie Nelson in the dichotomy of Austin music, with both men…
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Kinky Friedman – In Memorium
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Yesterday’s unfortunate news of Kinky Friedman’s passing has been difficult to grapple with. He had an oversized personality…
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You have to live it before it can come out of your horn
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Under the Double Ego was Kinky Friedman’s melancholic goodbye note to the music industry. It would be thirty-two…
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The largest heist in city history, a clash with the Crimson Tide, and flying submarines – it’s the holiday’s in Austin, 1964
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All of the stories, quotes, and other anecdotes are from articles published in the Austin American Statesman between…
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You’ve got to have some scars if you want to be a poet
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Ray Wiley Hubbard is one of the cosmic cowboys that made Austin home in the early 1970’s and…
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An Eagle, a Beatle, and a (Black) Crowe
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Co-Starring is an album released by Ray Wylie Hubbard in 2020 and features a collection of artists including…
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The history of Antone’s, Austin’s Home of the Blues
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Life outside the ‘Dillo 1970’s Austin was dominated by the hippie adjacent cosmic cowboys with their long hair,…
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A voice that can peel chrome from a trailer hitch
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Read My Lips is unadulterated Texas Roadhouse blues, and Lou Ann Barton howls into the microphone with what…
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Beyonce is coming for the country crown
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Cowboy Carter is destined to be a landmark album in Beyoncé’s collection, and has the potential to be…
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Austin’s role in producing one of the definitive albums of the the 90’s
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Austin is not the first city you associate with Sublime, but it played a pivotal role in the…
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