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Going back to the basics in Austin...
...stage. Walker finishes his two-hour performance, then returns for an encore number, Pissin' in the Wind. By now the audience is standing on chairs, whooping, waving Stetsons and screaming for more. The scene is good-time Texas honky-tonk anarchy. It is Saturday night at the Austin Opry House...
With one stage for every ten musicians in town, Austin has blossomed into a performer's paradise. Hangar-size halls like the Armadillo World Headquarters and slant-floored beer emporiums like the Split Rail give steady work to such country-rock artists as Marsha Ball, Joe Ely and 400 of their fellow singers, songwriters and pickers. Because of Austin's relatively low cost of living, musicians can work cheaply. "And if they're down on their luck," says a local writer, "they can score a dope deal to hold them over...
...fact, both topics were probed exhaustively by various teams of reporters. Unfortunately, there were no tape recorders whirring in the Kennedy car when it went off Dike Bridge, resulting in the drowning death of Mary Jo Kopechne. The Johnson wealth, stemming mostly from a highly profitable Austin radio and TV station whose stock was held in Lady Bird's name, proved impossible to trace fully. The reporting on Teddy was far from protective; opinion polls show most Americans do not believe his story-and his chance of becoming President has been severely damaged. As for L.B.J., he was forced...
...strong drives toward both greed and love. Director Heffron (or his second-unit man) does not stage the several chase scenes as tightly as he might, and Writer Norton sketches scenes that could have been more fully developed comically and emotionally. They don't attempt to do for Austin, Texas - center of so-called outlaw country music - what Robert Altman did for Nashville. Still, Outlaw Blues is a pleasant, modest entertainment, which, like several other recent films, demonstrates that the only cops we can still afford to kid in the grand old American tradition are small town and rural...