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Here is my "before, now and after" favorite music artists list :

Jimmy Hendrix
Billy Holiday
Beatles
Elvis Presley
Steve Vai
Albert King
Jeff Beck
Stevie Ray Vaughan (and Double Trouble)
Jimmie Vaughan
Muddy Waters
Buddy Guy
T Bone Walker
John Lee Hooker
Eric Clapton
Roy Orbison
Herbie Hancock
Mark Knopfler
Joe Satriani
Koko Taylor
Daug Sahm
Jaco Pastorius Twin Towers
Charlie 'YardBird" Parker
Louis Armstrong
Jonathan Butler
Richard Elliot
Chris Botti
Diana Krall
Michael Franks
Elvis Costello
Camaron
Keith Jarrett
Ravel
Debussy
Beethoven L.v
Georges Bizet

..and all the artist from Austin Antonies Records:

"Welcome to Antonie's Records the home of the blues since 1972"

http://www.txmusicgroup.com/antones/home.html

http://www.antones.net

QUOTE:

Clifford Antone's place, the club owner's name has always been synonymous with the blues. Stevie Ray Vaughan used to be a regular, and when major blues artists like Buddy Guy, Etta James, or Edgar Winter venture down this way, you can be sure they'll either be playing Antone's or stopping by for a surprise set. The owner's incarceration and the club's relocation to the warehouse district hasn't changed anything -- this is still where you come to hear the bad, sad songs. ("Blues is nothing but good man feeling bad.")

Antone, is known all over the country as the man who helped deliver the blues from obscurity, fifteen years ago he was a lonely urban pioneer with one consuming passion.
"I don't listen to jazz and I don't listen to rock and roll and I don't listen to conjunto very much," he says. "I'm a blues man. Period. There's no play in me." Antone kept importing the blues masters to his club so that young upstarts like the Fabulous Thunderbirds (Antone's original house band) and Stevie Ray Vaughan could absorb their influential styles. By putting the two generations together, Antone catapulted the T-Birds and Stevie Ray to stardom and indirectly sparked a nationwide blues revival. After two moves, his club now seems permanently ensconced in its current location close to the University of Texas campus. Through it all, Antone has never given up on the blues.
With a taste for oversized suits and gangster fedoras, the burly Antone fits his chosen role of blues godfather. In 1987 the Blues Foundation in Memphis gave Antone's club one of its Keeping the Blues Alive awards. Further recognition in the form of a Grammy nomination came this year for harmonica master James Cotton's Live From Antone's, issued on the two-year-old Antone's label.

One man One place a legend every night.

http://www.cliffordantone.com

http://www.antones-homeoftheblues.com.

"The best music I've ever heard was at Antone's and some of the best music I've ever played was there. I really don't know where I'd be today or what I'd be doing without Antone's." Said the late Stevie Ray Vaughan.

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