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Title

The improbable rise of redneck rock : new edition / by Jan Reid ; photographs by Scott Newton.

Author

Reid, Jan

Publication

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2004.

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Details

Description

xix, 379 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Musical magic hit Austin, Texas, in the early 1970s. At now-legendary venues such as Threadgill's, Vulcan Gas Company, and the Armadillo World Headquarters, a host of country, rock-and-roll, blues, and folk musicians came together and created a sound and a scene that Jan Reid vividly detailed in his 1974 book, The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock. The breadth of talent still astounds--Willie Nelson, Janis Joplin, Jerry Jeff Walker, Doug Sahm, Delbert McClinton, Michael Martin Murphey, Willis Alan Ramsey, Kinky Friedman, Steve Fromholz, Bobby Bridger, Billy Joe Shaver, Marcia Ball, and Townes Van Zandt. Reid's book even inspired the nationally popular and long-running PBS series Austin City Limits, which focused attention on the trends that fed the music scene--progressive country, country rock, western swing, blues, and bluegrass among them. In this new edition, Jan Reid revitalizes his classic look at the Austin music scene. He has substantially reworked the early chapters to include musicians and musical currents from other parts of Texas that significantly contributed to the delightful convergence of popular cultures in Austin. Four new chapters and an epilogue show how the creative burst of the seventies directly spawned a new generation of talents who carry on the tradition--Lyle Lovett, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Robert Earl Keen, Steve Earle, Jimmy LaFave, Kelly Willis, Joe Ely, Bruce and Charlie Robison, and The Dixie Chicks.

Series Statement

Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture ; no. 12

Uniform Title

Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture ; no. 12.

Subject

• Geschichte 1965-1975
• Rock music > Austin > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Includes indexes.

Contents

The Gay Place 3 -- A Yodeler and the Queen 17 -- Looking for a Home 35 -- Something to Do with Age 57 -- Austin Manana 73 -- Beer, Cocaine and ... 89 -- Just a Waltz 111 -- The Voice 129 -- The Boy from Alabama 141 -- The Golden Fleece 153 -- The Ballad of Evelyn Goose and Donna Dumbass 169 -- The Quota on Singing Texas Jews 179 -- Irish Texas 193 -- Willie the Lion 215 -- The Day of the Locust 245 -- Outlaw Country 267 -- Good Day for the Blues 287 -- Pendulum 311 -- Legacies 331.

ISBN

0292701977 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003021707

OCLC

• 53138893
• SCSB-12596760

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library