Rock musicians

Series Description

Artifacts from Sublett's musical career.

Series Description

Articles and stories appearing in the Austin Chronicle: "The Big Tape", "X-15: The 4-Track Walkman", and "Crying on the Shoulder of the Road" (November 24, 1983); "Traveling the Hardboiled Highway", record review: Madonna (March 23, 1984); "How to Make a Record" (November 30, 1984); "Martin Fender & the Flat-Top Kid", short piece on Raymond Chandler for a feature on mystery writers (December 13, 1985).

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Book manuscripts, screenplays, drafts, cartoons, clippings, correspondence, photographs, ephemera, sound recordings, and regalia documenting Sublett's careers as a rock musician and writer. Many of the drafts of Sublett's writings include handwritten annotations by the author. Copies of certain letters to Richard Holland, then-Curator of the Southwestern Writers Collection, have been retained when they shed light on some phase of Sublett's creative life.

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Author Jesse Sublett’s collection of works including his research on his book 1960s Austin Gangsters: Organized Crime That Rocked the Capital; research on a book about gangster Timmy Overton; and a preliminary print of his book Armadillo World Headquarters which was co-written by Eddie Wilson. Also included are posters for his band, The Skunks, and various other posters to events where Sublett appeared, 2003-2016.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Author Jesse Sublett’s collection of works including his research on his book 1960s Austin Gangsters: Organized Crime That Rocked the Capital; research on a book about gangster Timmy Overton; and a preliminary print of his book Armadillo World Headquarters which was co-written by Eddie Wilson. Also included are posters for his band, The Skunks, and various other posters to events where Sublett appeared, 2003-2016.

Series Description This series, kept as a discrete group of materials by Sublett in his home, contains drafts of some of his short pieces for the Austin Chronicle, including The Nature of the Crime (1984), a piece never published but which prompted the Chronicle's editorial staff to urge Sublett to write a novel. The rest of the items relate to Rock Critic Murders: consent and release forms,an early title page design containing a saguaro cactus, and blurbs solicited from James Ellroy, Gerald Petievich, and...

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Author Jesse Sublett’s collection of works including his research on his book 1960s Austin Gangsters: Organized Crime That Rocked the Capital; research on a book about gangster Timmy Overton; and a preliminary print of his book Armadillo World Headquarters which was co-written by Eddie Wilson. Also included are posters for his band, The Skunks, and various other posters to events where Sublett appeared, 2003-2016.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Author Jesse Sublett’s collection of works including his research on his book 1960s Austin Gangsters: Organized Crime That Rocked the Capital; research on a book about gangster Timmy Overton; and a preliminary print of his book Armadillo World Headquarters which was co-written by Eddie Wilson. Also included are posters for his band, The Skunks, and various other posters to events where Sublett appeared, 2003-2016.

Series Description

Posters and postcards advertising the Skunks, Boiled in Concrete, a novel by Andrew Vachss, and a magazine cover for which Sublett modeled.

Series Description From the Series:

Contains a short note to Richard Holland describing Hale Storm as a first draft, and versions of Hey Joe, Rock Critic Murders, Pay the Devil, Hale Storm, Shadows in the Sun, (with Stephen Purvis), and two versions of In the West (with Stephen Purvis and Tom Huckabee).

Series Description From the Series:

Contains a short note to Richard Holland describing Hale Storm as a first draft, and versions of Hey Joe, Rock Critic Murders, Pay the Devil, Hale Storm, Shadows in the Sun, (with Stephen Purvis), and two versions of In the West (with Stephen Purvis and Tom Huckabee).

Series Description From the Series:

Contains a short note to Richard Holland describing Hale Storm as a first draft, and versions of Hey Joe, Rock Critic Murders, Pay the Devil, Hale Storm, Shadows in the Sun, (with Stephen Purvis), and two versions of In the West (with Stephen Purvis and Tom Huckabee).

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The majority of material consists of working drafts of Marathon, a collaborative work with Darden Smith. Also included are CDs Murder Ballads and Noir Capers Part One and Beat Love Samples and a poster for the Marathon Read-thrus held at University of Texas Performing Arts Center. Few items were in folders; those titles appear in quotation marks.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Author Jesse Sublett’s collection of works including his research on his book 1960s Austin Gangsters: Organized Crime That Rocked the Capital; research on a book about gangster Timmy Overton; and a preliminary print of his book Armadillo World Headquarters which was co-written by Eddie Wilson. Also included are posters for his band, The Skunks, and various other posters to events where Sublett appeared, 2003-2016.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The majority of material consists of working drafts of Marathon, a collaborative work with Darden Smith. Also included are CDs Murder Ballads and Noir Capers Part One and Beat Love Samples and a poster for the Marathon Read-thrus held at University of Texas Performing Arts Center. Few items were in folders; those titles appear in quotation marks.

Series Description From the Series:

Contains a letter to Richard Holland explaining the sequence of Sublett's works; a 2nd draft of Rock Critic Murders, a first draft of the book which ultimately became Tough Baby entitled Blunt Instrument, and a completely-rewritten second draft of Tough Baby entitled The Big Hurt.

Series Description From the Series:

Contains a short note to Richard Holland describing Hale Storm as a first draft, and versions of Hey Joe, Rock Critic Murders, Pay the Devil, Hale Storm, Shadows in the Sun, (with Stephen Purvis), and two versions of In the West (with Stephen Purvis and Tom Huckabee).

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The majority of material consists of working drafts of Marathon, a collaborative work with Darden Smith. Also included are CDs Murder Ballads and Noir Capers Part One and Beat Love Samples and a poster for the Marathon Read-thrus held at University of Texas Performing Arts Center. Few items were in folders; those titles appear in quotation marks.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The majority of material consists of working drafts of Marathon, a collaborative work with Darden Smith. Also included are CDs Murder Ballads and Noir Capers Part One and Beat Love Samples and a poster for the Marathon Read-thrus held at University of Texas Performing Arts Center. Few items were in folders; those titles appear in quotation marks.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The majority of material consists of working drafts of Marathon, a collaborative work with Darden Smith. Also included are CDs Murder Ballads and Noir Capers Part One and Beat Love Samples and a poster for the Marathon Read-thrus held at University of Texas Performing Arts Center. Few items were in folders; those titles appear in quotation marks.