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A New Exhibit Goes Inside the Making of ‘¡Viva Terlingua!’

November 8, 2023 | By Michael Corcoran

When Craig Hillis visited ¡Viva Terlingua! The Big Bang of Texas Music in September, he was more amazed by what he heard than what he saw.

Looking Back to Luckenbach: 50 Years After the ‘¡Viva Terlingua!’ Sessions

August 1, 2023 | By Michael Corcoran

It’s considered one of the albums every Texan should know by heart. But when it was released 50 years ago, ¡Viva Terlingua!

Meet the Grasshoppers Newly Named After Willie Nelson and Jerry Jeff Walker

June 22, 2023 | By Asher Elbein

What’s from Central Texas, makes music, and has a fondness for grass? If you say country music star and Texas treasure Willie Nelson, you’d be right.

The Lost Gonzo Band Talks Jerry Jeff Walker, Austin Music in the ’70s, and Reuniting at Gruene Hall

October 15, 2021 | By Joe Nick Patoski

The old band getting back together again is a familiar trope. But this isn’t any old band.

If It Ain’t Broken

October 14, 2014 | By Michael Corcoran

Jerry Jeff Walker used to say that he doesn’t live in Texas, he lives in Austin.

TH Moment with Jerry Jeff Walker

December 12, 2008 | By Rob Mccorkle

Of all the vaunted singer-songwriters who serenaded the Lone Star State with a rock-tinged country-and-folk sound when Austin was putting down its Live-Music-Capital-of-the-World roots in the 1970s, it is Jerry Jeff Walker who perhaps best wears the mantel of troubadour.

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