VIA PRESS RELEASE | New West Records has partnered with the Clifford Antone Foundation to bring you a four-LP, 41-track box set celebrating the 50th anniversary of the legendary Austin nightclub Antone’s, packed with the rich history and enduring spirit of a club that helped put the live music capital of the world on the map.
Set for release on August 22, Antone’s: 50 Years of the Blues, chronicles the development of Antone’s and its trailblazing music across three full-length albums (each capturing a unique element of the club’s history) and a special bonus 45. The set also features a meticulously updated hardcover edition of Picture the Blues from Susan Antone (the sister and close collaborator of legendary late Antone’s founder Clifford Antone) with rare and unseen photographs, and a new definitive Antone’s history written by revered Texas music historian Joe Nick Patoski with fresh interviews.
Out today are two advance tracks from the set’s opening double LP, The Last Real Texas Blues Album, which includes 18 songs of new material from artists integral to the history of Antone’s —Jimmie Vaughan, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Charlie Sexton, Ruthie Foster, Doyle Bramhall II, Bobby Rush, Derek O’Brien, C.J. Chenier + Muddy Waters’ guitarist John Primer and son Big Bill Morganfield—as well as its next generation leaders, Kam Franklin, Eve Monsees, McKinley James and more.
Kam Franklin pays homage to a true Texas trailblazer with her interpretation of Barbara Lynn’s “You’ll Lose A Good Thing,” and Antone’s staple Doyle Bramhall II honors the great Eddie Taylor, with “Bad Boy.”
