Castle Creek – Austin TX. High quality print of this slim fit tank-top will turn heads. And bystanders won’t be disappointed – the racerback cut looks good one any woman’s shoulders.
This tank is offered with permission from and royalties paid to, the drawing’s legendary Austin poster artist, Danny Garrett.
The Venue
During the ‘70s Castle Creek was a 285-capacity listening room on Lavaca that was integral in Austin’s burgeoning music scene. Jerry Jeff Walker, Townes Van Zandt, Earl Scruggs, Jimmy Buffett, Doug Kershaw, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Willie Nelson, John Prine and Jackson Browne were just a few of the eventual big name artists that graced that stage.
Castle Creek (1970-1976) was owned by Austin piano player Doug Moyes in partnership with music entrepreneur Tim O’Conner. The venue was named after an area near Aspen where Moyes had camped a couple years earlier.
O’Connor left Castle Creek in ’74 to work fulltime for Willie and the club closed for good in 1976.
The Artist
After a tour in Viet Nam Danny moved to Austin in the spring of 1970. Looking up Jim Franklin at Armadillo World Headquarters, Danny was given his first poster assignment, John Sebastian. From that spring until New Year’s Eve, 1979, Danny executed over a dozen AWHQ titles. He also did work for Castle Creek, Soap Creek Saloon, The Texas Opry House, The Austin Opera House, and many other Austin music venues. In 1976, Danny also began work for Antone’s, Austin’s Home of the Blues.
It is probably for his work at Antone’s, 1976 – 2005, for which Danny is best known in music art and ephemera. Danny had the privilege of meeting and promoting some of the greats of the Chicago blues scene – Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, B. B. King, Albert King, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy and James Cotton – just to name a few. Danny completed promotional artwork for such young Texas artists as Jimmie Vaughan, Derek O’Brien, Denny Freeman, Paul Ray and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Besides the music industry, Danny also worked in film and video, including various gigs such as courtroom artist for local TV stations, art directing Scary Movie, the indie preceding the Hollywood brand by the same name, and computer game work for Origin Systems, the 1990’s premier Austin game company. He has also taught art at Austin Community College and Auckland University of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand, where he worked for five years and was one of the founding faculty members of it’s digital degree plan — one of the finest in the Southern Hemisphere. He continues to work in the Austin art market, whatever the creative parameter.
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