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This is precisely the kind of ridiculously audacious and absurd thing that we can fully get behind. In case you happened to stumble across your radio dial to KUT yesterday and wondered what’s up with the full on 70s hippie and redneck rock playlist, the station has decided that in celebration of the Armadillo World Headquarter’s 40th anniversary, they are going to play a song from every single artist that ever played the hallowed venue, in freakin’ chronological order! They kicked things off yesterday morning with, of course, Shiva’s Headband - unfortunately John Aielli appears to be on vacation, so we don’t get his mystical, breathy ruminations on the tunes. The ‘Dillo, which opened August 7, 1970 and ran until New Years 1981, hosted a ton of music, with everyone from Willie, to Zappa, to DEVO, to the Pointer Sisters, (and of course every Austin act in between) so even just cramming every single artist that ever played there into a week of radio is quite a feet. Plus, we love imagining some hippie somewhere getting a royalty check for a couple pennies and wondering who the hell just played his one recorded single on the radio. Our friends over at Texas Music Matters are also doing their big broadcast this week on the Armadillo, sharing parts of their ambitious “Armadillo Oral History Project.” Tune into KUT 90.5 now to get your overdose of the ‘Dillo, and check out the video for the Oral History project below.
Armadillo Oral History Project from Deekgeek on Vimeo.
Born too late.
That’s alright, your kids will probably say the same about Emo’s, or something
I am soooo loving this tribute. I was alive during the 70’s, but unfortunately never got to experience the Armadillo. But did get to go to a lot of drug-addled concerts in my time ;->
Hey, question: Is there a complete chronological list somewhere of all the music played during this tribute? Would love to see it.
This is a great show it needs to be replayed.
I have enjoyed the 5 days at the DILLO this week, but was very disappointed that the line up did not include the wonderful singer-songwriter Emily Kaitz. Emily won the last “Austin Song Writers” awards held at the Armadillo World Head-Quarters. She won that last Song Writers award at the Dillo singing her very poignant “Worn out getting wise” in 1980, I believe… or whenever the last Austin Song Writers Awards was at the AWHQ (perhaps ‘79?).
It was our loss that Emily was left out of this week’s celebration…. which was wonderful.
Peace, Terry J. DuBose
back to Margaret’s question, does any know how to get the KUT Armadillo Special playlist?