[fa:p:id=1571524040,j=r,s=s,l=i]AUSTIN DAZE: What does playing the ACL fest mean to you?

RAY BENSON: It’s part of my life because we’ve played it every year, because I helped them when it first started out to put the deal together, and because I also played the first Austin City Limits show in 1975. This has been so important for my career and I love it. Read the rest of this entry »

[fa:p:a=72157594267830938,id=237019821,j=r,s=s,l=p]AUSTIN DAZE: How did you get involved with music?

CINDY CASHDOLLAR: Well, let’s see, I got involved in music when I was actually kind of young because I grew up in Woodstock, New York during the time before the first festival but when there was still so much music in town–you would just hear it. People were playing in the little tiny center of the town or on the sidewalks. So I started playing guitar, just regular guitar, when I was eleven. And my dad was a big country music fan and my mom liked all kinds of music–she had a huge collection of what they call world beat music now. She had everything. She was a big Dave Brubeck fan and an Olatunji fan and so there was all that in my house just on the record player. So between the two influences I had a lot of different musical angles coming at me all the time. Read the rest of this entry »