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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

Austin's Home of the Blues chose its founder as much as he chose it. Clifford Antone - a Port Arthur kid running a sandwich shop with guitars accumulating in the back - opened Antone's on 15 July 1975 in an old furniture store at Sixth and Brazos, booking zydeco king Clifton Chenier on night one. Within weeks Sunnyland Slim and Big Walter Horton had spread the word through the old Chicago guard: a young Texan appreciated their work and paid fairly. Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Jimmy Reed, Albert Kin...