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Bill Anderson
Bill Anderson made his mark as guitarist for blues-punkers Poison 13 in the Eighties; subsequent bands include Ballad Shambles, Hand of Glory, Joan of Arkansas, Big Foot Chester, and the Meat Purveyors, his current project.
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Lemon Jefferson (1893-1929), born in Couchman, was the first successful country-blues artist, no easy task for the blind singer-songwriter. Jefferson played in Deep Ellum during its heyday before heading to Chicago.
Henry "Blues Boy" Hubbard
Henry "Blues Boy" Hubbard is the king of Austin Eastside guitarists. A Bergstrom AFB mechanic during the Fifties who found his love playing the Victory Grill, Hubbard also played the Show Bar, Charlie's Playhouse, and Ernie's Chicken Shack as leader of the Jets in the Seventies. He still performs when called upon.
Carolyn Hester
Carolyn Hester found herself on the cover of Time in the late Fifties, as a figurehead in folk music. A contemporary of Joan Baez and Bob Dylan in the Sixties Village scene, Hester was an influence on Nanci Griffith, with whom she sometimes performs.
Charlie Prichard
Charlie Prichard helped define Austin's reputation in the Sixties as guitarist for Conqueroo, whose soaring psychedelia meshed with Shiva's Headband and Golden Dawn beautifully. Prichard most recently played and recorded with Jerry Lightfoot.
Chris Gates
Chris Gates pounded bass for Austin's seminal punk-funk group the Big Boys and with fellow HoF nominee Bill Anderson in Poison 13 in the late Seventies and early Eighties. Later groups include Junkyard and the all-star outfit Choreboy in the Nineties.
Clifford Scott
San Antonio born Clifford Scott (1928-1993) wears the mantel of Texas Tenor along with Lone Star saxophonists Ornette Coleman, Booker Ervin, King Curtis, and David "Fathead" Newman, having blown with Mount Rushmore immortals Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, John Coltrane, and T-Bone Walker.
Ernesto Saldaña
Ernesto Saldaña, aka Ernie Durawa, was born on San Antonio's Westside in 1942, and in the following six decades devoted himself to keeping Doug Sahm's beat, beating said drum in the Texas Tornados as well. He continues locally with the Latin swing of his Los Jazz Vatos.
Ernie Mae Miller
Ernie Mae Miller was Austin's most popular pianist in the Sixties, a regular at the New Orleans Club when the 13th Floor Elevators were there, yet she started out playing sax in the Forties with the all-girl outfit the Prairie View Coeds. Miller occasionally performs at private functions.
Frank Pugliese
Frank Pugliese, charismatic lead singer for San Antonio's Sons of Hercules, gets to claim that rarest and most prestigious of rock credentials. His band, the Vamps, opened for the Sex Pistols at their infamous Randy's Rodeo gig and he can Pony with the best of them.
Gary Chester
Guitarist Gary Chester took the torch from Gibby Haynes in the late Eighties when he formed Ed Hall. One of the premier bands of the Trance Syndicate label, Ed Hall broke up in the late Nineties; Chester now plays with Pong.
George Kinney
George Kinney's Golden Dawn was as well known as its better-remembered contemporaries the 13th Floor Elevators. The band's recordings are treasured by psych rock collectors. Kinney still performs with Golden Dawn.
Gurf Morlix
Gurf Morlix, an Austinite since 1975, is best known for his production work with Lucinda Williams, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and Slaid Cleaves, but his pair of low-down solo albums, 2002's Fishin' in the Muddy and 2000's Toad of Titicaca, demonstrate why this guitarist/singer-songwriter is so good behind the console: he knows what it takes to be in front of it.
Hector Muñoz
Behind every great rocker -- in this case Alejandro Escovedo -- is a rolling stone, in this case his drummer-for-life Hector Muñoz. You wouldn't want Al to be your dog without True Believer Muñoz pounding like the rest of the Stooges behind him.
Herb Steiner
Herb Steiner is to Austin pedal steel players what his longtime collaborator Cornell Hurd is to the local country scene: essential. With a résumé spanning from Linda Ronstadt's Stone Ponies in the Sixties to Michael Martin Murphey, Asleep at the Wheel, Johnny Bush, Wayne Hancock, Dale Watson, and the Derailers, Steiner has laid down more steel than Amtrak.
Ian McLagan
Ian McLagan, who relocated to Austin in the mid-Nineties, was a Londoner when it mattered, anchoring the Faces with his Hammond B-3 and electric piano swells, and later touring with the Stones, Dylan, and Bonnie Raitt. His Saxon Pub mainstay, the Bump Band, proves Mac is the Man.
Johnny Gimble
Johnny Gimble, 77, the "King of Swing Fiddle" has a National Heritage Fellowship Award to prove his stature as one of the finest country musicians ever. The Tyler-born fiddler is still best known for his tenure with Bob Wills, and continues to make vital music today.
Leadbelly
Leadbelly, born Huddie Ledbetter (1888-1949) in Louisiana, grew up in East Texas and playing in Deep Ellum and Houston in the Teens and Twenties. Leadbelly's music was his get out of jail free card when the Lomaxes recorded him in prison with songs like "Midnight Special" and "Good Night Irene."
Norman Odam
Lubbock-born Norman Odam is better known as Legendary Stardust Cowboy, a one-hit wonder whose 1968 single "Paralyzed" landed him on Laugh-In. A genuine cult figure who occasionally records, "Ledge" is acknowledged as the godfather of psychobilly.
Mike Buck
Drummer Mike Buck was an original member of both the Fabulous Thunderbirds and later the LeRoi Brothers. Buck, who is a noted collector of Texas recordings, has a distinctive shuffle style often sought for recording by the Texas Tornados and Toni Price.
Oscar Moore
Oscar Moore (1916-1981), during his tenure with Nat King Cole, "bridged the gap between Charlie Christian and T-Bone Walker on a Texas guitar continuum that extends to our present post-SRV era." 'Nuff said.
Teddy Wilson
In the pantheon of jazz, 88 magic keys were distributed among the Piano Kings, and Austinite Teddy Wilson's (1912-1986), bestowed for his early accompaniment of Billie Holiday alone, rests next to his bronze bust in the All-Music Hall of Fame.
Terri Lord
Terri Lord hit the skins in Austin playing drums for a variety of bands, most popularly the Jitters, and won Best Drummer in the first Music Poll. Lord has arranged and produced music for artists from Gretchen Phillips to Debbie Harry, but is best known for her tenure in Nineties alt-rockers Sincola.
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