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    family and friends


Rosemary Krust
William Hardy and Katherine Plummer
Bianca DeLeon
Texas singer-songwriter

Electric Gypsy Guitars
Teye’s handcrafted guitars
Nashville Portraits
Jim McGuire
Nashville’s legendary photographer
Niles Fuller Niles Fuller
Photographer/historian of the great days of the Austin music scene
Old Quarter
Rex Bell’s place in Galveston,
"where lyrics still count"
"If you cut cards with Rex, and you get a three, he'll get a two. You know what I mean?" Townes Van Zandt 

Sterling Images Online
Andrew Sterling
Austin photographer extraordinaire
Jet Whitt
Outsider art, jewelry, mojo charms

The Krayolas
The San Antonio sound
Radoslav Lorkovic
Master musician

Andy White
Belfast troubadour
Eric Taylor
The real deal

Photo by Marco Bakker

Ruthie & The Wranglers
East Coast honky tonk music
Don Burgess
Architectural photography

music

Albert Ayler
 
Captain Beefheart
 
Nick Cave
 
Guy Clark
 
Ornette Coleman
 
Miles Davis
 
Richard Dobson
 
Bob Dylan
 
Steve Earle
 
Joe Ely
 
Roky Erickson
 
Alejandro Escovedo
 
John Fahey
 
Folkways Records
 
60s Garage Bands
 
Garage Hangover
 
The Gourds
 
Jon Dee Graham
 
Malcolm Holcombe
 
Hot Tuna
 
Bill Kirchen
 
Augie Meyers
 
Meat Puppets
 
Rich Minus
 
Gurf Morlix
 
David Olney
 
The Pogues
 
Quebe Sisters
 
Django Reinhardt
 
Revenant Records
 
Keith Richards
 
Doug Sahm
 
Shawn Sahm & The Tex-Mex Experience
 
Sexto Sol
 
The Slits
 
Patti Smith
 
Sonic Youth
 
Stones/Bleed
 
Stones/Exile
 
Joe Strummer
 
Sun City Girls
 
Townes Van Zandt
 
Tom Waits
 
X
 
Yazoo Records
 
Neil Young
 
Frank Zappa
 

art/film/writing

Stanley Booth
 
Charles Bukowski
 
William Burroughs
 
Harry Crews
 
Criterion Collection
 
R Crumb
 
William Faulkner
 
Peter Greenaway
 
Hatch Show Print
 
Jack Kerouac
 
David Lynch
 
Henry Miller
 
Flannery O'Connor
 
Harry Smith
 
Sixties Posters
 
Hunter S. Thompson
 

places

The American Southwest
 
Antone’s Records
 
The Birchmere
 
The Broken Spoke
 
Fur Peace Ranch
 
Gruene Hall
 
Historic Hotels
 
Jovita's
 
Las Manitas
 
The Oaks
 
Nightclub 9:30
 
Tesoros
 

food and drink

bacon

Bacon of the month club
 
History of smoked meats in America
 

barbecue

Ruby's BBQ on Guadalupe, Austin, TX
 
Artz Rib House, Austin, TX
 
Interstate Bar-B-Q, Memphis, TN
 
Taste of Texas Barbecue, Taylor, TX
 
Legends of Texas Barbecue Cookbook
 
Texas Monthly Best BBQ in Texas
 
Texas-style barbecue
 
Texas BBQ Trail
 
Smoke & Spice: Cooking with Smoke, the Real Way to Barbecue
 

bourbon

Bourbon resources
 

old things

Old guitars
 
Old houses
 
Old typewriters
 
our house