Clifford Antone dies

[Soul Stream]

For those who know him, or who he is...club owner Clifford Antone died today suddenly.

[jazzbo]

Bummer. Lloyd Bentsen too.

[kh1958]

That's too bad. I saw Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Albert King, Paul Butterfield, Mel Brown, Stevie Ray Vaughn and others at his club.

[Big Al]

He sure had a cool record store, too.

[Aggie87]

R.I.P.

I dug the club AND the record store, though at some point I believe he sold the record store off (?). I have talked to the folks in there a few times over the past 2-3 yrs, and they told me they're not really affiliated with Antone or the club anymore. Lon or Soulstream or somebody may know more a bit more about this than I do.

[jazzbo]

R.I.P.

I dug the club AND the record store, though at some point I believe he sold the record store off (?). I have talked to the folks in there a few times over the past 2-3 yrs, and they told me they're not really affiliated with Antone or the club anymore. Lon or Soulstream or somebody may know more a bit more about this than I do.

Maybe Mike knows, I haven't been to the club since it moved (though there were a few years at the close of the eighties I was at that club several nights a week). And I haven't been in the record store in nearly that long. I sort of dropped out of the local scene when Angela Strehli left for SF. I dropped out of that scene and got a wife. . . all in the same year of 1990.

The club will go along without him. . . .

[Soul Stream]

Who, on paper, owns the record store and the nightclub...I have no idea. Jailtime along with the requirements to hold a liquor license, the taxman, ect...some stuff went in his sister's Suzan's name. The club has been bought out and re-bought out over the years by investors. But in everyone's hearts and minds', including Clifford's, both the nightclub and the record store were his. He will be sadly missed. Personally, I wouldn't have had a music career without his intervention and help.

[kh1958]

I remember one night Albert King was at the club (on Guadalupe), in late 1982 or early 1983. The second set, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie took over on drums and bass, Stevie Ray Vaughn moved in on guitar--that was a pretty intense set as I recall.

Then in May of 1983, just before I was moving back to Dallas, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells came in for two consecutive weekends, with an appearance at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festval in between--I was there every night for sure, to hear that great three guitar band.

I hadn't been back in quite a few years, and never went after the club left Guadalupe Street.