APD Deposes The King

"...According to employees working at Jazz on Feb. 27, local bass-playing street musician..."

March 7, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

King of Sixth Street Deserves to Be in Hall

"...Fame works, but I continue to be astounded that Gerry Van King, aka the King of Sixth Street, remains..."

Jan. 31, 2005 Postmarks

Texas Platters

Jimmy Lafave

"...4 stars -- Christopher Hess GERRY VAN KING..."

April 23, 1999 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Things get so bad in the Live Music Capital of the World that they're citing the 'King of Sixth Street,' Gerry Van King, for busking on the street

"...Long Live the King!..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

TCB

What a sampling of the Austin music scene wants for Christmas.

"...good record deal with national distribution, promotion, a good booking agent, a write-up in Rolling Stone, and a beautiful..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Short Cuts

Festival news from around the globe, as pertaining to Austin's little chunk of it.

"...Riviera, where the only smoke you're liable to be choking on are the plumes emanating from Troma Team's The..."

May 16, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

TCB

A pictorial history of TCB's, and the modern Austin music scene's, formative years

"...GERRY VAN KING: The once and future "King of Sixth..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Street Cred to Burn

The 1996-97 Austin Music Awards

"...to Austin music in 1996: Minus a single transcendent, galvanizing band to rally around, Austin's edgier outposts lost a..."

March 7, 1997 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...Church, recently sent a letter to the Planning Commission asking them to suspend "all necessary rules" in order to..."

March 28, 2003 News Feature

Austin Music Awards Show Performers 1983-2016

Every AMA performance lineup of the past 34 years

"...Band with special guest Stevie Ray Vaughan, Extreme Heat, Van Wilks Band, Chinanine, Concept..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back

"...Perhaps the author was having a bad day and drinking too much and shouldn't be writing "Letters @ 3AM"?..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Column

Dancing About Architecture

To Be Or To Be Not

"...for someone in the music festival. Things are currently looking good for a short (and rare, I might add)..."

March 7, 1997 Music Column

Page Two

"...yes, that the Jimmie Dale Gilmore-hosted tribute to Townes Van Zandt (one is tempted to say the late, great..."

Feb. 21, 1997 Column by Louis Black

Dancing About Architecture

Eyes on the Prize

"...Margaret Moser). In order of appearance, you'll see The King of Sixth Street Gerry Van King, 81/2 Souvenirs, Texas..."

Feb. 21, 1997 Music Column

Page Two

"...good documentary program including Full Tilt Boogie on the making of From Dusk Till Dawn; Tom Thurman's Ben Johnson:..."

March 7, 1997 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

"...features pre-show and between-set music at the bar from"the King of Sixth Street," Gerry Van King, and the show..."

Feb. 28, 1997 Column by Louis Black

Blessed Are the Buttholes

Austin's 1996 in Review

"...got off with a bang by having street singer Gerry Van King, "The King of Sixth Street," busted. The..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...refreshing to come across the snide aside in the Vann/Alarcón feature on ethnic markets: "... if indeed, it can..."

March 7, 2003 Column

Dancing About Architecture

The New Blues Revue

"...the Hard Rock Cafe people, as well as B.B. King's blues club in Los Angeles, has elected to open..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

1996-97 Austin Music Awards

"...Beavis and Butt-head creator Mike Judge (l) really is King of the Hill, as he demonstrated with comedian Johnny..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

1996-97 Austin Music Awards Wednesday, March 12 Austin Music Hall, 7:55pm sharp

"...Pre-show entertainment by Gerry Van King and Kerry Awn..."

March 7, 1997 Music Feature

Austin-Made Comedy Home Free Is Taking Homelessness Seriously

How a chance encounter in 1997 keeps changing lives

"...Professor. Alongside figures like Leslie Cochran, Jennifer Gale, and Gerry van King, aka the King of Sixth Street, "he..."

Oct. 27, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Through the Plexi-Glass: Last Days at the San José

Liz Lambert's self-portrait of Austin's complex gentrification

"...have had a longer moment, like legendary street musician Gerry Van King, aka the King of Sixth Street. Some,..."

March 23, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

After a Fashion

Hangin' with your Style Avatar, the B-52's, Pam Des Barres, Miss Kitty, and mo' – oh, and some ho's … San Ho's that is …

"...Madonna holding her crying children, telling us how we're taking food out of their mouths every time we download..."

March 19, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Naked City

Breaking news briefs from Austin and elsewhere

"...on T.A.B.'s petition to quash the DA's subpoenas. See "Picking Up the Tab,"...."

March 28, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

TCB

Permits, or lack thereof, cause a huge to-do between FactoryPeople, SXSW, and various city agencies, while musicians spin some hot-rod yarns and the King of Sixth Street abdicates his throne

"...bases by having police officers on the door and talking with them about what we needed to run the..."

March 30, 2007 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Anybody's Home?

The Texas Documentary Tour: Liz Lambert's 'The Last Days of the San José'

"...been much of a father for some time now; Gerry Van King, familiar to Austinites as the guy who..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Dancing About Architecture

This Is the Week That Is

"...will get into the 1,300-seat venue (trivia contest, raffle, chain-smoking competition), there's still no immediate action you can take..."

March 19, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

25 X 25

"...Spankers, NOOK, Afrodite, Jon Dee Graham, Ike Eichenberg, Fantasma, Gerry Van King, Manuel "Cowboy" Donley, The Gypsies & Karuna,..."

June 5, 1998 Screens Feature

I'd Much Rather Be With the Girls

What a box set should be:'One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found'

"...wonders. Hence, we get Twinkle, Twiggy (!), Nita Rossi, Sylvan, Mally Page, and Little Frankie from the other side..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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