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“Hollywood Mad Dogs” now available in The Wittliff’s Literary Series

Steve Davis December 4, 2020

Before his death in 2009, legendary Texas author Edwin “Bud” Shrake completed a final novel, Hollywood Mad Dogs. This rollicking tale is based on his real-life adventures as a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1970s, where he penned films starring Dennis …

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Jerry Jeff Walker: The First Demo

Hector Saldana November 5, 2020

The recording was unearthed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in January 2018, more than a half century after it was made. The audio captured on the portable reel-to-reel tape machine – a German-made UHER 4000 Report-L popular in the early 1960s …

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Developing characters at the Austin Film Festival

The Wittliff October 2, 2020

Editor’s Note: For the past several years, the Austin Film Festival has been busy digitizing their recordings of the festival panels, which they’ve maintained since the first year in 1994. That’s over 25 years’ worth of conversations from the best …

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The long journey to restoring “The History of Ranching.”

David Coleman August 28, 2020

In 1950 the Wimberley, Texas artist James Buchanan “Buck” Winn was commissioned by the Pearl Brewery in San Antonio to paint The History of Ranching, a massive mural to adorn the walls of the Corral, the brewery’s oval-shaped hospitality room. …

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“It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll” in Tennessee and Texas

The Wittliff June 5, 2020

By Wittliff staff member, Library Specialist, Sherri Turner-Herrmann. Rock and roll hit me like a freight train early on. When I was 8, my cousin introduced me to Alice Cooper and that’s when the first train hit. Shock rock, hard …

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The Moving Sidewalks meet Jimi Hendrix

Hector Saldana May 6, 2020

Texas music lovers hold ZZ Top especially dear. After 50 years, Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard feel more like friends than rock icons. Here at The Wittliff Collections, we love ’em, too. The new Netflix documentary “ZZ Top: …

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Re-discovering Peter Pan at The Wittliff

The Wittliff April 10, 2020

By Wittliff student worker, Eric Robertson-Gordon. Growing up, my childhood was filled with movies. My father would often show me and my sister movies that he remembered loving when he was a child. My dad was a cinephile and it …

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Tamara Saviano receives 2020 Margaret Moser Women In Music Award.

The Wittliff March 13, 2020

(AUSTIN, TEXAS – March 12, 2020; source: Juice Consulting) – On the evening of March 11, 2020, author, filmmaker and producer Tamara Saviano, whose papers reside in The Wittliff Collections, was awarded the 2020 Margaret Moser Women in Music Award …

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Waylon and Lefty: Marine Corps pitch men?

Hector Saldana January 27, 2020

The forgotten 60-second Marine Corps. recruiting spot fades in with the familiar symphonic chorus of “MacArthur Park” – “Someone left the cake out in the rain . . .”  But the voice is not that of actor Richard Harris, who …

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Podcast featuring Wittliff authors now online.

The Wittliff January 21, 2020

Once upon a time, you had to be listening live to catch Bookmarked, the literary talk show hosted by Priscilla Leder on KZSM in San Marcos. Now Bookmarked is available as a podcast, and among its archived programs, you’ll find …

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