An Evening at Threadgill’s
NR.
Directed by Tom Herod, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring .

Filmed in 1971 by a bunch of University of Texas film students that included Herod, Daniel Perl, David Schmoeller, Ted Nicolaou, Stuart Dworeck, Fred Homes, and Tom Roberdeau, this restored 22 minutes of film documents a typcial night at Threadgill’s, where proprietor and father of the Austin music scene, Kenneth Threadgill, sang and held forth. Recently restored, this rough student-film footage now constitutes some of the oldest and most precious images of the olden days in the “live music capital of the world.”

This article appears in March 3 • 2000.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.