Soap Creek Reunion

Sunday, Oct. 14 @ La Zona Rosa, 5pm

Oct. 12, 2001 Music Feature

Groover's Paradise

Those were the days …

"...heart of Austin's music community in the early Seventies, Soap Creek Saloon was its soul. The rundown shack of..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Real Greezy

Greezy Wheels, back from the dead (the Seventies).

"...the last 50 yards of dirt road to the Soap Creek Saloon was usually the most precarious, not including..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Cleve Hattersley

Wasted Days, Wasted Nights

The night in 1974 when Doug Sahm brought Freddy Fender to Soap Creek to play

"...was the night Doug Sahm brought Freddy Fender to Soap Creek in early 1974. Five years earlier, Doug had..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Temple of Angels, a DJ Chicken George benefit, a Soap Creek Saloon reunion, and more recommended shows

"...Mazarn, Jonathan Horne, and Thor Harris.  – Michael Toland Soap Creek Saloon Reunion ShowSagebrush, Sunday 27..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Margaret Moser Tribute: Ray Benson

Soap Creek Saloon on a 10-cent tequila night

"...I remember meeting Margaret at the Soap Creek Saloon on a 10-cent tequila night. That musta..."

June 30, 2017 Music Feature by Ed Ward

Jingle Bell Rock and Blues

Two legendary Austin bands reunite for the holidaze.

"...on Red River nightly. They played my reception at Soap Creek Saloon after my first wedding in 1978, when..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Too Dumb to Die

A profile of Austin's longest-running musical parody, the Uranium Savages.

"...and were hired as the house band at the Soap Creek Saloon from 1975 to 1985, surviving the club's..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

India Ink

Making posters for Soap Creek

"...I've heard of Soap Creek referred to as "the best time you ever..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Kerry Awn

Marcia Ball's Cheers

"...appropriate way to sum up the essence of the Soap Creek Saloon, Marcia Ball likens it to the fictional..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

One, Two, Tres, Cuatro: Roadie

The shot about midway through 'Roadie' that travels from her sparkling shoes slowly up to her beaming face – that's Margaret Moser.

"...shoot for Outlaw Blues took place at the old Soap Creek Saloon, which is the name to distinguish it..."

March 2, 2012 Music Column by Margaret Moser

Okie Dokie Stomp

Clifford Antone didn't invent the blues, he immortalized them

"...Places like the Broken Spoke, Armadillo World Headquarters, and Soap Creek Saloon were already burnishing national reputations. The latter..."

May 26, 2006 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

American Boy

Chris Isaak's drummer Kenney Dale Johnson: From Soap Creek to Showtime

"...from Irvine, Calif., to reminisce about his journey from Soap Creek to Showtime...."

July 5, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Life A.D.

Former Austin Sun writer Bill Bentley says a prayer for Doug Sahm

"...playing around Austin, at the Armadillo and his home-away-from-home Soap Creek Saloon, his sets were the kind that made..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

A World in Which All Worlds Fit

"...Rail is now a Wendy's parking lot. The legendary Soap Creek Saloon, an artist hangout famous for good music,..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Will a Matchbox Hold My Clothes?

Letters at 3am

"...1980, in Austin, up on North Lamar, at the Soap Creek Saloon. It was a much smaller town then...."

March 20, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

The Scene Is Gone But Not Forgotten

The Evolution of Austin's White Blues

"...some of the famous ones at the Ritz and Soap Creek, who would bring in Son Seals, Sonny Terry..."

Aug. 9, 1996 Music Feature

Coach's Corner

Always pick the team with the most to play for.

"...introduces "Groover's Paradise" by talking about wasted nights at Soap Creek Saloon. Doug Sahm's dead? The hair on my..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

General Jackson

Artist and historian Jack Jackson remembered by those who knew him well

"...met him one sultry July night in 1976 at Soap Creek Saloon, right after I started working for the..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Arts Feature by Margaret Moser

Roadside Playboys and Texana Dames

The Hancock Family's long, strange, supernatural musical journey

"...Hancocks when they played their first auspicious gig at Soap Creek Saloon was astonishing...."

Dec. 31, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Dancing About Architecture

More Austin music news

"...Speaking of events performing beyond expectations, the Soap Creek reunion at La Zona Rosa on Sunday proved..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Dead Club Crawl

Club hopping through Austin's musical past.

"...the bar; the place turned out to be the Soap Creek Saloon. A cowboy-hatted Billy Bob at the door..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Musicians on the Menu

In concert or in the kitchen, these locals have the chops

"...aforementioned awards. Joni Constantine tended bar at the original Soap Creek Saloon, and the two met when the Cobras..."

May 12, 2006 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

The Town Was Hoppin'

Austin's music scene of the Fifties lives on in Ray Campi

"...fame during the Sev­en­ties as the home of the Soap Creek Saloon...."

March 30, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Substance and Whimsy

The Never-Too-Serious Epicureans of Austin

"...THCWAFF is the brainchild of Fall Creek Vineyards owners Ed and Susan Auler, who hatched the..."

April 4, 1997 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Austin Punk Chronicles: The Shock of the New – The Violators and the Skunks Invade Raul's

14 days after the Sex Pistols break up and mainstream media declares punk dead, Austin's scene begins at a Tejano bar on the Drag in Chapter 5, Part 1 of the "Austin Punk Chronicles"

"...bands opening for Tubes-style theatrical satirists Uranium Savages at Soap Creek Saloon on New Year's Eve 1977. This stemmed..."

Aug. 5, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

This Changes Everything: Austin Witnesses to Sex Pistols' Chaotic Randy's Rodeo Show Go Home and Start Bands

UK instigators blow the roof off San Antonio dance hall in Chapter 4, Part 2, of the “Austin Punk Chronicles”

"...doses of peppermint schnapps, as he avoided bathtubs and soap like a nice, warm cup of bubonic plague. He..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

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..."

April 27, 2021 Music Post by Bill Bentley

How a Collaboration Between Roky Erickson and Doug Sahm Became Part of the Blueprint for Punk Rock

Chapter one of the Austin Punk Chronicles concludes with two local legends setting the stage for a global music revolution

"...remember Doug bringing Roky up to his house behind Soap Creek Saloon, this beautiful two-story house on five acres..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Margaret Moser Tribute: Shawn & Shandon Sahm

Beautiful Texas sunshine

"...Shawn: Soap Creek Saloon was the Sahm kids' day care center...."

June 30, 2017 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

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