Liberty Lunch was a live-music venue in Austin, Texas. It began in the 1940s as an eatery and, over the years, evolved into a live-music venue.
In 1981, as pieces of the Armadillo World Headquarters fell to the wrecking ball, usable wood was brought over to the Liberty Lunch site, to be recycled into a new, "see-through" front entrance, a badly needed stage rebuild, and a new backstage area. The outdoor shed area eventually grew a roof, to protec...
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Liberty Lunch was a live-music venue in Austin, Texas. It began in the 1940s as an eatery and, over the years, evolved into a live-music venue.
In 1981, as pieces of the Armadillo World Headquarters fell to the wrecking ball, usable wood was brought over to the Liberty Lunch site, to be recycled into a new, "see-through" front entrance, a badly needed stage rebuild, and a new backstage area. The outdoor shed area eventually grew a roof, to protect against rain-outs, which were very costly. This was, sadly, at the price of sacrificing a prime feature, at what was probably the original location to engender the phrase "Live music, under the stars, in Austin, Texas".
During its heyday in the late 1970s and 1980s, it featured all kinds of music, including reggae and ska, punk, indie, country and rock.
The venue was forced to close to make way for Austin's downtown redevelopment rampage in the late 1990s. Since then, Liberty Lunch has attained a (mostly deserved) legendary status in the...
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