From the Statesman:

A giant, an institution, a generous soul whose obsessive love of the blues helped make this college town nationally known for stomping-good live music and passionate listeners is gone…

By giving Chicago blues legends a club in Texas to play, as well as launching a raucous classroom where upstarts such as the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Charlie Sexton and Stevie Ray Vaughan could learn at the feet of the masters, Antone forever changed the Texas music landscape. He was 56.

Antones has been open in Austin since 1975, and some of the best music I’ve ever heard in my life, I heard at Antones. Stevie Ray Vaughn once said that, “the best music I ever heard was at Antones. The best music I ever played was at Antones.”