I'd seen such an ad, but didn't know the date. So the Betsy/Bill version came first. I wasn't aware of that. In any case, besides seeing Chuck & Julie play with Kenneth from when I first arrived in Austin, before Mullet I primarily knew them from spending time with them in some small studio on Burnet right after the Jubilee, making copies of my tapes for Kenneth. I'm certain the Mullet with Denny was fall '71, both because of my graduate school transcript and remembering "Maggie May" always playing (and annoying).
I've recently stumbled across the two single releases by Kenneth with Chuck and Julie from '69 and '70---very undocumented, it seems, on "One & Only HOOT" Records ("waiting for a train" b/w "coming back to texas" and " st louis blues" b/w "our song". The last is credited to Chuck Joyce. I'll try to figure out how to get them repro'd digitally, and let you spread their good cheer!
Back in 1961 the scene was Erine"s Chicken Shack with the dime size dance floor. I was hard to figure but there I found the whole town. Bo Diddly- "You can't judge a book by looking at the cover-I look like a farmer but I am a lover. People from all walks and races. The best to all
1. $300,000 in 1971 would be about $2,264,000 in 2023 -- close to $300,000 an acre, cheap for Austin-area lakefront.
2. I wish you'd do an in-depth on King's Village. One of the many places I saw ZZ Top over the years, I also saw Colorado's Sugarloaf (Green-Eyed Lady) there.
In the fall of 1971, Mullet was Chuck, Julie, Denny Freeman and me. https://notes.technologists.com/notes/2021/04/28/remembering-denny-freeman-and-1971/#Mullet
I added this: "with guitarist Denny Freeman and bassist Charles Sauer in the final version."
Thanks for the great Denny Freeman side trip articles. Some great reading and memories.
I'm seeing newspaper ads for Mullet with the Joyces and Betsy Marshall from March '71.
I'd seen such an ad, but didn't know the date. So the Betsy/Bill version came first. I wasn't aware of that. In any case, besides seeing Chuck & Julie play with Kenneth from when I first arrived in Austin, before Mullet I primarily knew them from spending time with them in some small studio on Burnet right after the Jubilee, making copies of my tapes for Kenneth. I'm certain the Mullet with Denny was fall '71, both because of my graduate school transcript and remembering "Maggie May" always playing (and annoying).
I've recently stumbled across the two single releases by Kenneth with Chuck and Julie from '69 and '70---very undocumented, it seems, on "One & Only HOOT" Records ("waiting for a train" b/w "coming back to texas" and " st louis blues" b/w "our song". The last is credited to Chuck Joyce. I'll try to figure out how to get them repro'd digitally, and let you spread their good cheer!
Love the Threadgill’s article, did not have any idea about the history. Thanks for sharing.
A great story here even without Janis in it; folding in more rare insights into who Janis was is such a lovely bonus!
Back in 1961 the scene was Erine"s Chicken Shack with the dime size dance floor. I was hard to figure but there I found the whole town. Bo Diddly- "You can't judge a book by looking at the cover-I look like a farmer but I am a lover. People from all walks and races. The best to all
1. $300,000 in 1971 would be about $2,264,000 in 2023 -- close to $300,000 an acre, cheap for Austin-area lakefront.
2. I wish you'd do an in-depth on King's Village. One of the many places I saw ZZ Top over the years, I also saw Colorado's Sugarloaf (Green-Eyed Lady) there.
This has got more on Kings Village
https://michaelcorcoran.substack.com/p/austins-greatest-undiscovered-band