Hosted by Jason Mellard, Renee O'Connor, and TSSI · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 14 episodes
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In March 2020, when the world shut down, Eddie Wilson compiled an eclectic list of Austin's artists, authors, movers, and shakers who defined the city's cultural scene in the sixties, seventies, and eighties. In their words, we thread together what made the city they called home, a world renown destination for music, art, and food. Listen to Eddie (Threadgill's proprietor and author of Armadillo World Headquarters), historian Jason Mellard, and our esteemed friends connect on a nostalgic journey down memory lane, with stories of food, music, politics, measuring the true character of Austin, Texas.Music by Jake Andrews MusicContent Warning: adult themesHost, Eddie Wilson - Armadillo World Headquarters founder @ThreadgillsHost, Dr. Jason Mellard - Cultural historian @jasondeanmellardEditor, Renee O'Connor Music Mixing, Matt Carlson @axemanguitarProducer, Renee O'Connor @realreneeoconnorProducer, Sandra Wilson @sandrawilson709Executive Producer, TSSIMusic by Jake Andrews Music @
Jason Mellard, Renee O'Connor, and TSSI hosts Austin Roots, a history show with 14 episodes published.
"Early Club Scenes" with John Toad Andrews Forming The Wigs with Boz Scaggs, The Chelsea with George Kinney, and joining Tracy Nelson & Mother Earth, to his unlikely second career restoring and selling antique ceiling fa
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"Pioneering the Family Traditions" with John Lomax III "So grandfather would lie in bed at night and hear the, uh, cowboys nearby. They would stop off and just spend the night nearby, practically in their yard, and he'd
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"Archiving The History of Austin" with Leea Mechling "Prosperity doesn't always mean dollar signs. Sharing music and sharing art really expands your heart." (Leea Mechling) Leea Mechling grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas,
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"A Cartoonist's View of Underground Characters" with Gilbert Shelton "Chet Helms and Jack Jackson and some others, and then I bought a printing press. It was our idea to print rock posters. That was a big thing at the ti
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"Austin's Early Art Scene" with Danny Garrett "The San Francisco posters sort of resonated with everybody and I mean everyone across the country, across the world. Of course, there was a very strong connection between Au
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"The Contemporaneous Armadillo" with Woody Roberts (January 10, 1941 - May 20, 2023) What does a Top 40 DJ, the Armadillo World Headquarters, a failed but ambitious TV and radio show project, within Austin City's limits,
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"Keeping the Heart in the Music Community" with Emma Little "I think I learned that a lot of the guys who were successful generally had a woman backing them up at home, helping them out. That's the thing is you have to h
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"The Underground Comix Movement" with Dave Moriaty "The cartoons never made any money, in my opinion… we became the default printer for the revolution from the beginning. We printed family dog posters, we printed straigh
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"The Real Deal in Austin Food" with Hoover Alexander Food, Community, and Austin's Culinary Legacy, breaking bread with Hoover Alexander. In this deeply personal conversation, Hoover Alexander shares his journey from Eas
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"The Vulcan Gas Company" with Don Hyde "I never had the idea of making money. That wasn't the point. I don't think there were many clubs anywhere that had that as a premise. Utopia… it was one of the first countercultura
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"Famous Texas Legislation" with Dave Richards "What I remember is Eddie coming by one time and asking Ann (Governor Ann Richards) and I to go with him to see this old armory he'd found. He was thinking of making it into
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"The Austin/San Francisco Connection" with Travis Rivers From underground publishing to music management to technology adoption, Travis Rivers' life exemplifies counterculture entrepreneurship. "I've remarked that my ent
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"Early Folk Singing" with Powell St John Powell St. John (September 18, 1940 – August 22, 2021) Episode recorded in 2020 Wednesday night hootenannies, Peyote, and Janis Joplin, brim the surface of Powell's contributions
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"We have this idea now of Austin being this liberal, communist bastion, but a hundred years ago we were one of the most conservative cities in Texas." - Richard Zelade. Richard Zelade, author of Austin and the Jazz Age,
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Bank burglaries, prostitution, and gambling, the hidden layers of Austin history. "Everybody knew who all the tough guys were... every couple of years there was a new super bad guy." In this episode of Austin Roots, host
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In March 2020, when Threadgill's and the world shut down, we found ourselves in a reflective mood with time on our hands. Eddie Wilson compiled an eclectic list of Austin artists, authors, movers, and shakers who defined
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