Ep. 87- Texans You Should Know: Kenneth Threadgill

Wise About Texas

Ken Wise

Texan, Places & Travel, Education, Texas, Cowboy, History, Society & Culture, Culture, Jacinto, Texans, San

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Austin is famous for its music scene. Willie, Waylon, Jerry Jeff and so many others helped Austin become weird. But before any of them there was Kenneth Threadgill. A preacher's son, Threadgill loved music. He especially loved Jimmie Rogers and his yodel. Threadgill opened a tavern that provided musicians a place to play, and college kids a place to listen. Kenneth Threadgill and his hootenanies gave many Austin musicians their start, and launched one hippie girl to superstardom. Hear about the earliest days of the Austin music scene and get to know one of its pioneers, Kenneth Threadgill.

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0:00.0	Howdy and welcome the Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast.
0:12.6	I'm your host Ken Wise.
0:14.0	Thank you.
0:14.8	Thank you for tuning in today.
0:16.1	Thank you for listening to this podcast.
0:18.7	This podcast, this particular episode
0:20.9	is being released in late May 2020 and we are reopening Texas after the
0:27.3	2020 coronavirus pandemic that's great news for. Everybody's eager to get out and about,
0:35.0	taking the appropriate precautions of course and I want everyone listening to this
0:39.2	podcast to be safe and healthy. So if you're in the risky categories for COVID-19, make sure that you
0:46.8	take all the precautions that you feel you need to take. During the this pandemic and the attendant quarantine activities etc, I did a series of
0:58.1	episodes where I interviewed the site managers of various sites associated with the Texas Revolution and the feedback I got from around the state was just incredible and some from outside the state.
1:09.0	People couldn't wait to get out and visit those sites.
1:12.0	Those are all open at this point so get out
1:15.2	if you haven't already and visit some of those sites especially the ones you haven't been to.
1:18.6	And learn a little bit about the Texas Revolution.
1:22.7	Well, you might be able to guess this if you thought about it,
1:25.6	but I was working on an episode about pandemics in Texas
1:29.1	because I think we need to, it's just too obvious,
1:32.0	we need to do that. There's been a lot of writing recently
1:34.2	about it and people always and should look to history to learn about what to do in
1:41.1	unfamiliar situations and weather
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