To C-Boy, With Love

Continental Club maverick Steve Wertheimer pays tribute to his mentor – with a nightclub

"...went to a West Campus blues club called the Rome Inn. In time, he became protégé of the old..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Blue Monday

Antone's Blue Mondays continues, 25 years later.

"...be playing with the Monday Night Blues Band and grinning happily between songs. When O'Brien calls up singer Lou..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Fire at Texas French Bread Ravages Storefront

Beloved restaurant was housed in a building rich with music history

"...supper club that eventually evolved into a nightly farm-to-table dinner featuring light, simple French country fare comparable to what..."

Jan. 25, 2022 Food Post by Melanie Haupt

Rock Around the Biological Clock

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

"...was on the phone and my son was just beginning to form sentences, and he said, "When are you..."

May 7, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Dead Club Crawl

Club hopping through Austin's musical past.

"...teenager just before doubling over and leaving his liquid dinner on the alley floor. Wearing jeans and a T-shirt..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

The Geranium Cabbages

Accompanying piece to the Uranium Savages, in which author Margaret Moser founds her own parody band, the Geranium Cabbages.

"...Woody Hills Co-op out at the old Bull Creek Inn. It was more of a comedy act with some..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

First Concert: Steve Wertheimer

Continental Club and C-Boy’s Heart & Soul owner revisits Dazed & Confused

"...effect on what I am doing now. Now the Rome Inn and shows I saw there and places like..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Music Feature

Good Memories of C-Boy

"...weekends during the day, then went off to the Rome Inn. Then, when the Rome Inn closed, C-Boy worked..."

Feb. 10, 2014 Postmarks

This Town

The Go-Go's Kathy Valentine takes the Zilker Park train back to her Austin upbringing

"..."I'd go to the Rome Inn and hear Jimmie Vaughan and think, 'I want..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

This Be an Empty World Without the Blues

Sometimes a sandwich – and its maker – is a hero

"...feeling. Sometimes, at night, I'd run into him at Inner Sanctum on 24th Street, his arms full of records..."

May 26, 2006 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Buried Alive in the Blues

The night Austin's Godfather of the blues granted Ed Ward a favor he'll never forget

"...got around to seeing them one evening at the Rome Inn. I was deep into the punk/New Wave axis..."

May 26, 2006 Music Feature by Ed Ward

Con Safos

Keith Ferguson's Legacy

"...I first saw Ferguson with the Fabulous Thunderbirds at Rome Inn in 1976, about a year after they'd formed,..."

May 9, 1997 Music Feature by Dan Forte

Beacon Blues

Since 1970 at the One Knite, Jimmie Vaughan's worn the smile of a blues savior

"...restaurant on 29th Street just west of Guadalupe called Rome Inn began featuring music and gave the Thunderbirds Monday..."

July 16, 2010 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Bob and Joni at TFB

"...The Rolling Thunder Review tour to play at The Rome Inn. It's true! I know because I chased them..."

Jan. 25, 2022 Postmarks

From the Music Desk

On Willie, Billy, Stevie Ray, Blaze, and more highlights from four decades of covering Austin music

"...cautionary tales, and if they die, the world stops spinning for a couple beats, then we look for a..."

Sept. 3, 2021 Features Feature by Michael Hall

Beyond the Horizon with Denny Freeman

Austin lodestar offered the theories of life through a guitar

"...As clubs like Soap Creek Saloon, Bevo’s, Antone’s, Rome Inn, Hole in the Wall, and other nefarious nightspots..."

April 27, 2021 Music Post by Bill Bentley

A New Generation Brings Heloise Gold's "Bird Dream Dances" to Life

Taking wing with the bird dances Gold has been making for 40 years

"...she debuted them in a show at the old Rome Inn space at 29th and Rio Grande (now Texas..."

May 31, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Music Poll Blues

"...built on the many bands that played at the Rome Inn, Antone's, the Victory Grill, and has a statue..."

Nov. 15, 2018 Postmarks

Friends Handle the Heavy Lifting for Kent “Omar” Dykes

Howler hampered by flesh-eating arm disease gets benefit

"...chuckles Kent “Omar” Dykes. “Now, I got the little skinny arms. I look down and go, ‘Wow, whose arms..."

July 30, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Wind Cries Margaret

"...the Raul's scene, we were also both fixtures at Rome Inn and Antone's! With Margaret Moser, nothing of musical..."

Aug. 26, 2017 Postmarks

Bill Ham Had My Back

ZZ Top’s onetime manager made rock & roll history

"...that later morphed into the Moving Sidewalks. Small world syndrome reared its head when I told Ham that Billy..."

June 24, 2016 Music Post by Bill Bentley

Paul Ray’s Magic

Twine Time’s origin story begins with friendship

"...Soap Creek Saloon, the new Antone’s on Sixth Street, Rome Inn, and anywhere music maniacs would gather...."

Jan. 15, 2016 Music Post by Bill Bentley

The Residents

Twelve essential Austin residencies

"...From the Fabulous Thunderbirds burning down the Rome Inn on Monday nights in the Seventies to 2015..."

Nov. 27, 2015 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Culinary Ladies of the Eighties: Judy Willcott

Bread baking hobby led to successful local business

"...When Judy Willcott took some homemade baguettes to a dinner party in 1980, she could not have foreseen that..."

Sept. 11, 2014 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Enjoying and Correcting Corcoran

"...there was nothing Italian about C-Boy's po'boy sandwiches at Rome Inn, but they were mouthfuls of flavor! Back in..."

Feb. 3, 2014 Postmarks

Texas French Bread Bakery & Bistro is Closed for Remodeling

Refreshed dining room, bakery, kitchen, and bathrooms debut next week

"...the building's days as the legendary music venue, the Rome Inn, when removing walls and pulling out drywall. Murph..."

Jan. 9, 2014 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Playback: FREE WEEK!

2014, you're up

"...Parks, the beloved barbecue cook and spirit behind Austin's Rome Inn, where several legendary musicians cut teeth in the..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback

Q: What do you get when you combine the Continental Club, Trophy's, and the Rome Inn? A: C-Boy's.

"...friend, the late C-Boy Parks, who ran the legendary Rome Inn here in an era far, far away. "He..."

May 4, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Cactus Cafe Closing Is Deeply Saddening

"...world,” which started in smaller settings. The Hearnes at Rome Inn. Willis Alan and John Hartford on I-35. Freda..."

Feb. 15, 2010 Postmarks

Sons of Austin

Murph and Ben Willcott develop a new paradigm for the next generation of a beloved family business

"...that had achieved Seventies music-venue icon status as the Rome Inn. Judy bought the building over the protest of..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

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