Theater
Saxon Pub
Intimate live-music club on South Lamar, home to decades-long singer-songwriter residencies.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Saxon Pub in Austin traces the deal a struggling Fort Worth guitarist named Stephen Bruton struck with owner Joe Ables in the late nineteen-nineties: a set of keys and a standing Sunday-night slot with almost no rules. You will hear how that arrangement grew into a decades-long house-band residency, what happened to it after Bruton passed away, and how a South Lamar real-estate squeeze later put the room itself at risk. Best heard leaning on the bar, facing the corner stage where it all played out.
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