This Be an Empty World Without the Blues – So Clifford Antone filled it
Bill Bentley, Austin Chronicle, 26 May 2006
THE FIRST TIME I met Clifford Antone, he sold me a sandwich. He had opened a shop on Guadalupe, right around the corner from the first office of the Austin Sun on 15th Street, bringing his family's business in Houston to town.
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