Clifford Antone: 1949-2006
Bill Wasserzieher, Blues Revue, October 2006
CLIFFORD ANTONE liked to say he was "the blues in Austin." He was and then some. From 1975, when he opened his namesake club, until his death on May 23 of natural causes, he did more to promote blues than perhaps anyone not a performer.
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