Vintage Austin music advertisements

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Leon Carter and the Rolling Stones, a 1950s Austin band with one helluva retroactive cease-and-desist order possibility.

Here’s an ad for the Continental Club in 1958, the year after it opened.

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Mike Egloff

October 24, 2012

Leon Carter is alive in lining in Buda, Tx. He’s doing well, I just saw him about three weeks ago.

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