USA 2015
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This 'Texas Roadtrip' in november was supposed to be all about Americana music, but I found the number of live gigs I was able to attend disappointing. With only two weeks available and most music played in the weekends, I had known it might be so. Fortunately there was the 'history trail' for music too, so in the end things turned out not so bad. |
 At first I found Austin an ugly place! The mood I was in was effected by a sore tooth (a visit to the dentist solved that) and getting us across town was a pain too. The I-35 cuts right across Austin, with dominating, ugly & colossal ramp on & -offs, our motel was way up north and we found we needed to be south most of the time; that I-35 looked handy but was often totally congested; and the weather turned to cloudy and rain. But gradually my mood changed for the better.
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Willie Nelson is God here, or at least a Super Hero. I love his music. Austin has been going through a building boom these recent years and is doing well. When someone asked me for some money to get some breakfast, I gave him my spare change; but he threw it on the ground.
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I love visiting libraries, large or small, I sort of 'collect them' (make a few defining pictures, see My Flickr account). So I had put the LBJ Library on my list for things to visit in Austin. I wasn't prepared for the extensive museum!
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"A major influence was Clifford Antone and the namesake blues club he founded in 1975, at the age of 25.
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We tried finding the Botanical Gardens in Austin , but that was poorly signposted. My satnav brought us to |
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Photos © R.Leeuw
