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: …
Re-discovering Peter Pan at The Wittliff
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 …
Tamara Saviano receives 2020 Margaret Moser Women In Music Award.
(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?
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 …
Podcast featuring Wittliff authors now online.
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 …
The Wittliff Collections announces its first-ever festival in January of 2021.
The Wittliff Collections will host its festival debut on January 9, 2021, in Austin, Texas, with a one-day event celebrating the unbridled imagination of Texas, Mexico, and the Southwest. The Wittliff Collections Festival will feature a full day of panels …
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Digital Treasures: Here today, here tomorrow.
The Digital Preservation Coalition cites November 7th as World Digital Preservation Day. It is just another day here at The Wittliff Collections, but I thought it would be a good opportunity to share with you some of our ongoing digital …
Blessings, Besos and Bill Wittliff: A conversation.
Written by Wittliff student worker, Hannah Alvarado. Representing the life of an artist using only their photographs is a seemingly impossible task. Especially a life as singularly impactful as photographer, screenplay writer, author and The Wittliff Collection’s late founder, Bill Wittliff. …
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Processing Jane Sumner’s audio archives opened up a fascinating world to me.
By Wittliff student worker, Jessica Henriquez. Jane Sumner, an award-winning film journalist for The Dallas Morning News, has interviewed directors, producers, writers, book authors, and the former Governor of Texas, Ann Richards. Through the years, she’s kept her roughly-recorded microcassettes …
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Houston’s glorious R&B past has a home at The Wittliff Collections.
The recent acquisition of the archives of Austin record collector/photographer/indie music newspaper publisher Doug Hanners, means the deep dives are beginning at The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University into one of the most important and fascinating aspects of the …
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