Foremost is an aggressive booking policy that presents live national and local talent two hundred nights a year, with enough variety to satisfy even the most hard-core music lovers... It makes perfectly good sense to me, for instance, to present Bill Monroe one night and Ravi Shankar the next, Fats Domino after that, then Mighty Clouds of Joy or Jerry Jeff Walker, and then a Sunday performance of Stanley Hall's Austin Ballet Theatre. Show me another club or concert hall as adventurous as that.
...even though they were raised on rock, their Texas roots were undeniably country and western. Bob Wills, George Jones, and Ernest Tubb were as important to the culture of the state's youth as were Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, and Bob Dylan.
Joe Nick Patoski
Texas hippies enjoyed their rock 'n' roil and marijuana as much as their California counterparts did, but like their mamas and daddies they dug their beer and hillbilly music too.
EXPLOREIn Austin, the art was just as important as the music. When you put the two together, it really made big, serious juju magic.
EXPLOREStoryArk grew out of a website we built for the Texas Coastal Bend Collection, a documentation of the ranching culture in South Texas (Black cowboys, Vaqueros and the Irish immigration). The site houses 1,400 hours of audio interviews, 9,000 photographs, 4 books, journals, maps, and other historical ephemera all cross-linked using the StoryArk platform.
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