Austin City Limits
Austin City Limits is a music program on American television. Although primarily known for featuring country music, performers from folk, jazz, bluegrass, blues, rock and roll and other genres have appeared on the program. The show is a staple of PBS television stations.
Since the show first aired in 1976 it has featured hundreds of different artists. Austin City Limits is American television's longest-running program featuring concert music.
The program is taped live by local PBS member station KLRU on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, in Austin, Texas, the self-styled "Live Music Capital of the World," images of which are seen in the opening credits. The backdrop for the stage features a mock-up of the city skyline.
The show is the inspiration for the Austin City Limits Music Festival, an annual live music festival at Zilker Park in Austin.
Partial list of musicians who have appeared on Austin City Limits
- Chet Atkins
- Jessica Andrews
- Beck
- Bright Eyes
- Garth Brooks
- Junior Brown
- Jackson Browne
- Jimmy Buffett
- Mary Chapin Carpenter
- Rosanne Cash
- Tracy Chapman
- Ray Charles
- Joe Cocker
- Leonard Cohen
- Marc Cohn
- Dixie Chicks
- Elvis Costello
- Robert Cray
- Sheryl Crow
- Fats Domino
- Franz Ferdinand
- Freddy Fender
- Béla Fleck
- John Fogerty
- Vince Gill
- Nanci Griffith
- Guided by Voices
- Guster
- Lionel Hampton
- Emmylou Harris
- Sara Hickman
- Bruce Hornsby
- Widespread Panic
- Hootie and the Blowfish
- Indigo Girls
- Chris Isaak
- Jewel
- The Judds
- B. B. King
- Leo Kottke
- Ben Kweller
- Jerry Lee Lewis
- Los Lobos
- Lyle Lovett
- Loretta Lynn
- The Manhattan Transfer
- John Mayall
- John Mayer
- Pat Metheny
- Jason Mraz
- Willie Nelson, performed on first program
- Roy Orbison
- Carl Perkins
- Pixies
- Robert Plant
- Pure Prairie League
- Bonnie Raitt
- David Rawlings
- Boz Scaggs
- Earl Scruggs
- Spoon
- George Strait
- The Texas Playboys
- Hank Thompson
- Richard Thompson
- Tom Waits
- Townes van Zandt
- Jimmie Vaughan
- Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Suzanne Vega
- Gillian Welch
- Wilco
- Stevie Winwood
- Neil Young
- Ozomatli
See also
- Sessions at West 54th – a shortlived PBS series that also featured music performances