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Back in the good old days in Austin, Texas, say 1970, a guy could risk trouble for deriding country-and-western music, or merely hollering the words "rock 'n' roll." This was, after all, the ancestral home of Texas Swing, where the Light Crust Doughboys had helped elect a flour salesman, W. Lee O'Daniel, Governor in 1938. Even such talented native Texans as Singers Janis Joplin and Johnny Winter, blues rockers both, had been forced to head as far away from Austin as possible to make the big time...
Rock is no longer a dirty word in Austin. Indeed, by embracing rock's big beat, Austin's musicians have evolved a brand-new style of country rock, and have made the city the fastest-growing country-music center in the U.S. Nashville, still the capital of country, may provide more regular work. Bakersfield, Calif., may offer the inspirational presences of Merle Haggard and Buck Owens. But from the point of view of new sounds, freedom and plain musical fun, Austin now definitely ranks as No. 1. Within the past two years, following the lead of such veterans...
Journalists do not always work from the sidelines, as Contributing Editor Judy Fayard and San Francisco Correspondent John Austin demonstrated in handling their assignments for this week's magazine. Show Business Writer Fayard, working on her story on public-access cable television, found it "slightly unbelievable" that anyone who wants to can air his own TV show, so she signed up for one of the cable companies' minicourses in video-tape making. When Fayard's editors learned of her interest, they asked her to immerse herself in the subject by making, for broadcast, a program...
...Wyoming, Correspondent Austin was reporting for our Sport section on another outdoor activity - rodeo. Yearning to participate, he settled for a chance to display his equestrian skills on a horse named Dusty. "Despite the fact that my spurs kept falling off my Bass Weejuns, I gave a credible performance...
...their act did not fool me." Someone in charge at the rodeo decided that the TIME correspondent's performance merited what he interprets as a high honor: renamed for the event, one of the orneriest brahma bulls around stormed into the arena after being loudly announced as "John Austin...