Austin City Limits

  • Austin City Limits: A History
    By Tracey E. W. Laird

    It's got a lot of our soul with it.”1 The dressing room photos of past performers came too and still hang behind the artists during the endofshow interviews. They planned on moving the stage, but as producer Jeff Peterson explained, ...

  • Austin City Limits: A History
    By Tracey E. W. Laird

    listening to Willie Nelson than he could digging the far out sounds of a Bird, Prez or young Goodman, an early Beatles or a Woody Herman and the Third Herd.” From within PBS circles, Bill Arhos sent a letter to fellow programming ...

  • Austin City Limits: A History
    By Tracey E. W. Laird

    Traces the history of Austin City Limits, from its humble beginning as a weekly broadcast to the multi-faceted brand it has become.

  • Austin City Limits: Forty Years of Legendary Music
    By Tracey Laird

    This book spans ACL’s first 40 years, with special emphasis on legendary artists, such as Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Leonard Cohen, and Willie Nelson, and the most compelling contemporary performers and bands from the past two decades, ...

  • Austin City Limits: 25 Years of American Music
    By John Terry Davis

    The longest-running showcase on television today celebrates a quarter-century of the best of America's music--from country, blues, and folk, to rock, bluegrass, Tejano, and more--with this exuberant, informative, richly illustrated,...

  • Austin City Limits: 35 Years in Photographs
    By Terry Lickona

    The best moments from some of the most brilliant, mesmerizing, quirky, esoteric, and unforgettable performances on "Austin City Limits"--the longest-running popular music series in American television history--are captured in this volume.