The Wilson Street cottages and adjacent apartments have served as home for hundreds of musicans and music-industry folks for more than two decades. Here’s a partial list of music-minded residents who made their homes in the little rental community off Cumberland Road in South Austin:

Current

Ray Bonneville

Charlie Faye

Jess Klein

Tim Maher

Darwin Smith

Walter Tragert

Miss Lavelle White

Past

Phyllis Arp

Rob Bernard

Amy Boone

David Carroll

Billy Dee

Jo Rae Di Menno

Theresa DiMenno

Cole El-Saleh

Blaze Foley

J.D. Foster

Travis Garaffa

Jon Greene

Ronnie Lane

Ken Lieck

Matt McCormack

Scrappy Jud Newcomb

Karen Poston

Brendan Ryan

Walter Salas-Humara

Seela

Suzanne Sherwin

Sick

Susanna Van Tassel

David Waddell

Carolyn Wonderland

The Damnations

The Gourds

The Silos

The Wagoneers

Friends of Wilson Street

Will Sexton

Alejandro Escovedo

Dana Smith

John Morthland

Roky Erickson

Power Snatch

Websites

Wilson Street Cottages Project on Facebook

Wilson Street Cottages on MySpace

MySpace blog

This article appears in August 13 • 2010.

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