Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Earning My Hippie Card
• Now Dig This
• Cosmic Justice
• Head Honcho
• The Armadillo Art Squad
• A King, a Domino, a Captain, and a Leo
• Digging for Progress
• Living the Dream
• A Cultural Refinery
• Things Were Looking Up
• The Great Redneck-Hippie Merger
• A Breed Apart
• Being Thankful for What We've Got
• Not Your Daddy's Beer Joint
• The First Willie Nelson Picnic
• Armadillo TV, or What Might Have Been
• Then the Rains Came
• Home with the Armadillo
• Long Live Longnecks
• Pot, Big Red, Acid, Coke, and Pumpkins
• Feeding the Legend
• Crosstown Competition
• Traveling Armadillo Blues
• Dear Lone Star
• The First and Final Annual AWHQ Newsletter
• Rough Waters
• One Last Swing for the Fences
• Eddie Has Left the Building
• The Raw Deal and a White Rabbit
• The Armadillo Emerges
• Last Call
• Full Circle
• Appendix: A Selection of Gig Posters from AWHQ
• A Note on Sources
• Notes
• Index

About the Author

Eddie Wilson founded and ran the Armadillo until 1976, when he left to open a restaurant called the Raw Deal and then, in 1981, took ownership of Threadgill’s, where he continues to purvey live music and Southern cuisine. Well-known rock critic Dave Marsh has written more than twenty books about rock and popular music. A founding editor of Creem, he has written and edited Rock and Rap Confidential for twenty-five years.