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"Eddie's story is by turns hilarious, informative, and the living spirit of its age...[He] piles the most unlikely anecdotes on top of one another, creating a land of enchantment and an order of chemically altered consciousness that rescues an era I'd thought not so much lost as forgotten. Not only…
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I met Eddie Wilson in the early 2000s, and hearing his stories over a meal at his restaurant Threadgill’s (the spot where Janis Joplin got her start) put me on the road to becoming a Texas music historian. With a glint in his eye, he would describe the unbelievable goings-on at the Armadillo World Headquarters, the Austin venue he created in 1970: Willie Nelson’s transformation on finding hippie audiences, Bruce Springsteen trying to prove himself in Central Texas, Australian rockers AC/DC in their first American appearance, live recordings of Frank Zappa and Freddie King.
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