Antone's Nightclub

About this audio guide

This guide to Antone's Nightclub in Austin follows Clifford Antone, the founder who opened the club on Sixth Street in nineteen seventy-five and built it into a home for blues legends and for a teenage guitarist named Stevie Ray Vaughan. It also follows Antone's own collision with federal drug law, and what he did with his club and his musicians once he ended up on the wrong side of a fence. Stand at the bar and you are in the room he kept coming back to.