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All names that I recall. Weird thing was that Balcones Fault actually got a record deal, released an album, then disappeared. We wrote a feature story about that for Buddy magazine. Thought they were gonna hit it big.

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They had a big agency, William Morris, I think, behind them.

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Thank you for the frame of reference. When I lived in Austin, all these names were all floating around in the air! This was helpful!!

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Michael, What about Alvin Crow and The Pleasant Valley Boys? Over 50 years playing at the Broken Spoke. I can’t recall another band who has been together that long.

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Great band. Opened for Springsteen in '74 and, by the crazy response from the Dillo crowd, made him wonder what the hell he'd gotten himself into. But who do I replace? There can be only one band of the year (sometimes two). Let me think about it.

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Brownout rulez.

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