"The Live Music Capital of the World".

Austin is known as the Live Music Capital of the World. It is a city full of live music venues and teeming with live bands of all kinds. It is famous for both its blues and its country. It is home to "Austin City Limits", famous music venues like Antone's, Liberty Lunch, and the Broken Spoke, and musicians like Willie Nelson, Joe Ely, Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Vaughn, and the late great Stevie Ray Vaughn, and more. Austin also hosts the annual SXSW (South by Southwest) music convention and exhibition.

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