Austin City Limits
| Austin City Limits | |
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| Theme music composer |
Gary P. Nunn (1977-2004) John Mills (1982-1983) Tequila Mockingbird (2000-2004) Charlie Sexton (2004-2006) Explosions in the Sky (2011-2014) Gary Clark, Jr. (2014-2015) |
| Opening theme | "London Homesick Blues" (1977-2004) "An Introduction" (2011-2014) "Travis County Line" (2014-2015) |
| Ending theme | "London Homesick Blues" (1977-2004) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | PBS |
| Picture format |
480i SDTV (1976-2007) 1080i HDTV (2007-present) |
| Original release | January 3, 1976 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Austin City Limits (ACL) is an American public television music program recorded live in Austin, Texas, by Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station KLRU, and broadcast on many PBS stations around the United States. The show helped Austin to become widely known as the "Live Music Capital of the World", and is the only television show to receive the National Medal of Arts, which it was awarded in 2003. It also won a rare institutional Peabody Award in 2011 "for its more than three decades of presenting and preserving eclectic American musical genres." For the first 12 seasons (1976-1987), Austin City Limits was produced by the Southwest Texas Public Broadcasting Council. Beginning in Season 13 (1988), Austin City Limits moved to its current production home at Austin's PBS affiliate KLRU, the Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council.
Initially created to celebrate the music of Texas—featuring western swing, Texas blues, Tejano music, progressive country, and rock n' roll—the series has gone on to feature regional, national and international artists performing a wide range of musical styles, including jazz, alternative country, alternative rock, folk music, and jam band.
The pilot was shot on October 14, 1974, and starred Willie Nelson. (B.W. Stevenson was actually taped the night before, but the recording was deemed unusable.) The deliberate lack of production slickness and attention to audio detail pleased even the notoriously TV-shy Nelson, and ACL creator Bill Arhos pitched the pilot to PBS as part of its 1975 pledge drive. The show’s success as a fundraiser was enough for Arhos to get ACL green-lighted as a series.
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