Month: May 2016
Guy Clark, 1978, Austin Opera House
I just got word that Guy died today. Wow.
Guy Clark is as good as it gets, when it comes to songwriting. I’m sorry to hear he’s no longer with us — the world is gonna miss this one… More later as I process this…
Kendrick Lamar 10/30/2015 Austin City Limits
It has been a while since I’ve seen someone who knew how to work a crowd like this guy. He had everyone in the palm of his hand.
Kendrick Lamar @ Austin City Limits 10/30/2015
It doesn’t matter if I think he’s new and young and special. He is all of those things.
Ann Richards 1982 Austin, TX
In ’82 I was hired to do a shoot with Ann Richards, then a Travis County Commissioner. She was running for Texas State Treasurer and needed images. She was a marvelous person, funny, smart, friendly, and thoroughly Texas in every way. She had the slowest, thickest drawl coupled with the quickest wit I’d ever experienced. She was a delight. This is before she was Governor, before all of that.
Here, she was just Ann, navigating us around Austin in her big huge boat of a car, regaling us (Doug Zabel and me) with hilarious stories…