1411 LAVACA ST.

FORMER LOCATION OF: CASTLE CREEK

HEYDAY: 1970-73

“I wouldn’t want to call Castle Creek a folk club; we sometimes had acts like Little Feat and Muddy Waters, but we were definitely a listening club. I used to go around every night and ask people to stop talking; if they didn’t we’d kick ’em out. I’m a lyric freak and we had some of the best songwriters in the world like John Prine, Willie Nelson and Steve Goodman. Then, we also had bluegrass players like Earl Scruggs and Doc Watson. One night Jerry Jeff Walker asked me if a friend of his from Florida could play for five or 10 minutes and it turned out to be Jimmy Buffett. He came back and played many times and just loved the place. In fact, when Buffett plays Southpark on Sept. 21, I bet you anything he mentions Castle Creek from the stage. He always does.”

TESTIMONY FROM: local impresario Tim O’Connor, who co-owned Castle Creek with Doug Moyes before leaving to work for Willie Nelson, whom he met at the club, in ’72.

FOOTNOTE: Before Castle Creek, the location was home of the Chequered Flag. Afterward, it housed the Comedy Workshop, where Bill Hicks was a regular.