Showing Records: 1 - 20 of 1908
1 Copy, signed
Newspaper articles, SXSW and ACL programs, and drafts for the John T. Davis archive. This collection includes a wide expanse of Davis’s articles from 1980-2010, including articles from Davis’s music review column in the Austin-American Statesman. This collection also contains official SXSW and ACL music and program guides, as well as drafts of Davis’s comprehensive ACL book, Austin City Limits: 25 Years of Music.
1 Copy, unsigned
Newspaper articles, SXSW and ACL programs, and drafts for the John T. Davis archive. This collection includes a wide expanse of Davis’s articles from 1980-2010, including articles from Davis’s music review column in the Austin-American Statesman. This collection also contains official SXSW and ACL music and program guides, as well as drafts of Davis’s comprehensive ACL book, Austin City Limits: 25 Years of Music.
1 snapshot labeled “Box Blind, Archer County, 2008”; Promo photo of James McMurtry dated 1987, taken by Kathleen Hudson at Leon Springs Cafe in Leon Springs, TX; 13 B/W photo prints of James McMurtry and band from performances, undated
1st ACL Fest, 2002
Newspaper articles, SXSW and ACL programs, and drafts for the John T. Davis archive. This collection includes a wide expanse of Davis’s articles from 1980-2010, including articles from Davis’s music review column in the Austin-American Statesman. This collection also contains official SXSW and ACL music and program guides, as well as drafts of Davis’s comprehensive ACL book, Austin City Limits: 25 Years of Music.
2 HD floppy discs: “Raid” and “Songs 2” (loose) , undated
Box contains DATs for “Saint Mary of the Woods,” CD safety mixes for “Live in Aught-Three,” CD mixes for “Childish Things,” and audio reel from 1987 “Homeless Project” (“James’ first paid recording project), blank audio reels, 2 floppy discs, a CD of “The Old Part of Town,” and 1 DAT containing “Where’s Johnny” and “I’m Not From Here”
2 notepads with lyrics for “Melinda,” “Levelland,” “Fuller Brush Man,” and unknown (“Quit the race …”)
2 notepads with lyrics for multiple songs, including Unknown: “You’re not from around here …”; Unknown: “Attention K-Mart shoppers …”
Series III contains folders of legal-sized notepads, each containing lyrics and/or notes for multiple songs. Song titles (or first lines/key phrases) are listed on each folder.
2 notepads with lyrics for “Right Here Now,” “Iolanthe,” “Shift Your Gaze,” and unknown (“Something’s in the air”)
2 notepads with studio notes for album It Had to Happen
“2 Storage Set A” and “2 Storage Set B” [3 Floppy Discs]
Newspaper articles, SXSW and ACL programs, and drafts for the John T. Davis archive. This collection includes a wide expanse of Davis’s articles from 1980-2010, including articles from Davis’s music review column in the Austin-American Statesman. This collection also contains official SXSW and ACL music and program guides, as well as drafts of Davis’s comprehensive ACL book, Austin City Limits: 25 Years of Music.
3 notepads with lyrics for “Down Across the Delaware,” “Shift Your Gaze,” “Off and Running,” “Fuller Brush Man,” “Rachel’s Song”
4 Notepads with lyrics for multiple unknown songs, including Unknown: “Pieces of the picture”; Unknown: “Ramble about …”; Unknown: “Never trust what the grown-ups say …”; Unknown: “I could send you flowers …”
Series III contains folders of legal-sized notepads, each containing lyrics and/or notes for multiple songs. Song titles (or first lines/key phrases) are listed on each folder.
4th B Way
The promotional material series is predominately made up of photographic and printed material sent to Patoski from music, television and film production companies, record companies, and talent agencies. Other promotional materials in this series include catalogs, newsletters, festival advertisements, press releases and ephemera all relating to the music industry.
4th of July Picnic, bumper sticker, photos, fliers, press release, clothing, 1979
This series contains posters, programs, flyers, product tie-ins, photos, film pressbooks, articles, clippings, T-shirts, and jackets. The material provides a general picture of the marketing done for Nelson and his band. The product tie-ins with such brands as Wrangler jeans and Country Time lemonade make use of Nelson's popularity and country image.
6 photographs of Susanna Clark including a picture with Rodney Crowell, undated
This series is composed of five subseries: Correspondence, Personal Materials, Photographs, Artwork, and Awards.
8 ½ Souvenirs
Additions to the John T. Davis Accessions include his extensive subject files, arranged alphabetically by artist. Contents vary, but typically include promotional photographs, Davis’ writings and interview notes, press releases, newspaper clippings, and other ephemera. Not everything in the folders is listed below, but when they exist, photos, interviews, and select items are noted. Folders titles are Davis’.
“12 O’ Clock Whistle” (loose page)
"20 year column", August 1995
Newspaper articles, SXSW and ACL programs, and drafts for the John T. Davis archive. This collection includes a wide expanse of Davis’s articles from 1980-2010, including articles from Davis’s music review column in the Austin-American Statesman. This collection also contains official SXSW and ACL music and program guides, as well as drafts of Davis’s comprehensive ACL book, Austin City Limits: 25 Years of Music.
20th Century Records
The promotional material series is predominately made up of photographic and printed material sent to Patoski from music, television and film production companies, record companies, and talent agencies. Other promotional materials in this series include catalogs, newsletters, festival advertisements, press releases and ephemera all relating to the music industry.
26 B/W photo prints, photographer and date unknown (mostly “live,” mostly of just McMurtry but some with band); 1 color snapshot dated Jan. 1992, Orange County, Calif. with notation on back: “Termination of the Bottom Line’s ‘In Their Own Words’ Tour’” with James McMurtry, Marshall Crenshaw and six others James McMurtry’s Texas Driver’s License, expired 1997, along with Temporary driver’s permit (stapled together)
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