Popular music -- Writing and publishing
Found in 2836 Collections and/or Records:
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’.
10 unidentified CDs/DVDs
10 VHS cassettes, “1A,” “1B,” “2A,” “2B,” “3A,” “3B,” “4A,” “4B,” “5A,” “5B” Possibly Live from Cibolo Creek Country Club
11 unidentified CDs/DVDs
“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.
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)
40 Points. 40 Points (CD) [Willie Nelson guest vocalist], undated
45 rpm Records, 1977 - 1980
This series consists of five subseries: 45rpm Records, Cassette Tapes, Compact Discs, VHS Tapes, and U-Matic Master Tapes.
“69 T-top Vette” (loose pages)
Series II, “Lyrics for Singles, Unrecorded Songs, and Unidentified Songs,” contains 94 folders of lyrics for released as singles or that have yet to be recorded or released. Songs are separated into their own folders, and labeled either by song title (if known) or by a key phrase or line that either “opens” the song or appear to be thematically significant.