Austin, Texas is known as the "Live Music Capital of the World" but the music scene is not widely known. To those of us in the area (Austin is 2 1/2 hours to the west of my home) 6th Street is as famous as Beale Street in Memphis, the Grand Old Opry in Nashville or Broadway in NYC. On any given night you can find a wide range of music in the clubs around 6th Street and there have been a couple of bands form from musicians playing in the clubs, some did good and some not so good. Right now there is an up and coming band, The Band of Heathens that is made up of several solo artist that got together on 6th Street and the next thing you know they are becoming pretty popular. To add to the music scene in Austin or maybe it is one of the events that really got the music scene rolling was a show on PBS that featured some new and some established musicians, "Austin City Limits."
I started looking for some of the old shows after watching the Stevie Ray Vaughan Tribute which had the musical portion of the show filmed on the Austin City Limits' stage and thought I would share a few of them here, but first a little info from Wikipedia . . .
Austin City Limits (often abbreviated as ACL) is an American public television music program recorded live in Austin, Texas by Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Public television member station KLRU, and broadcast on many PBS stations around the United States. The show helped Austin to become widely known as the "Live Music Capital of the World," and is the only television show to receive the National Medal of Arts, which it was awarded in 2003.
Initially created to celebrate the music of Texas—featuring western swing, Texas blues, Tejano music, progressive country, and rock n' roll—the series has gone on to feature regional, national and international artists performing a wide range of musical styles, including jazz, alternative country, alternative rock, folk music, and jam band.
The show inspired the creation of the Austin City Limits Music Festival, an annual live music festival at Zilker Park in Austin.
Some of the performances from Austin City Limits have been released as CDs and DVDs in the Live from Austin, TX series. Full episodes can also be viewed online at the show's official website. There is an Austin City Limits store at the Austin Bergstrom International Airport.
On June 21, 2012, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio announced that nearly forty years of Austin City Limits footage will be digitally archived "in perpetuity" at the Museum's new Library and Archives; recordings from more than 800 live performances will be made available to the public.
Now some of the shows . . .
I thought I would start out with The Band of Heathens since I will be seeing them live this weekend at the Gruene Wine & Music Festival in Gruene, Texas at the Gruene Hall, the oldest continually run dance hall in the State of Texas. Gruene is pronounced Green.
[video=youtube;YAeSe0zLyVs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAeSe0zLyVs[/video]
Cheap Trick
[video=youtube;uOYYv_sASx8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOYYv_sASx8[/video]
Roy Orbison
[video=youtube;JgE2IJIu8Pg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgE2IJIu8Pg[/video]
Madeleine Peyroux with Pat Bergeson
[video=youtube;4R2SaFnFh3I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R2SaFnFh3I[/video]
And of course Stevie Ray Vaughan
[video=youtube;R6vUmlT2Q2E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6vUmlT2Q2E[/video]
I started looking for some of the old shows after watching the Stevie Ray Vaughan Tribute which had the musical portion of the show filmed on the Austin City Limits' stage and thought I would share a few of them here, but first a little info from Wikipedia . . .
Austin City Limits (often abbreviated as ACL) is an American public television music program recorded live in Austin, Texas by Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Public television member station KLRU, and broadcast on many PBS stations around the United States. The show helped Austin to become widely known as the "Live Music Capital of the World," and is the only television show to receive the National Medal of Arts, which it was awarded in 2003.
Initially created to celebrate the music of Texas—featuring western swing, Texas blues, Tejano music, progressive country, and rock n' roll—the series has gone on to feature regional, national and international artists performing a wide range of musical styles, including jazz, alternative country, alternative rock, folk music, and jam band.
The show inspired the creation of the Austin City Limits Music Festival, an annual live music festival at Zilker Park in Austin.
Some of the performances from Austin City Limits have been released as CDs and DVDs in the Live from Austin, TX series. Full episodes can also be viewed online at the show's official website. There is an Austin City Limits store at the Austin Bergstrom International Airport.
On June 21, 2012, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio announced that nearly forty years of Austin City Limits footage will be digitally archived "in perpetuity" at the Museum's new Library and Archives; recordings from more than 800 live performances will be made available to the public.
Now some of the shows . . .
I thought I would start out with The Band of Heathens since I will be seeing them live this weekend at the Gruene Wine & Music Festival in Gruene, Texas at the Gruene Hall, the oldest continually run dance hall in the State of Texas. Gruene is pronounced Green.
[video=youtube;YAeSe0zLyVs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAeSe0zLyVs[/video]
Cheap Trick
[video=youtube;uOYYv_sASx8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOYYv_sASx8[/video]
Roy Orbison
[video=youtube;JgE2IJIu8Pg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgE2IJIu8Pg[/video]
Madeleine Peyroux with Pat Bergeson
[video=youtube;4R2SaFnFh3I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R2SaFnFh3I[/video]
And of course Stevie Ray Vaughan
[video=youtube;R6vUmlT2Q2E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6vUmlT2Q2E[/video]
