BOOKS
Burton’s Book of the Blues is 66 photographs taken by Burton Wilson during the years 1966-72. The action occurs mostly in Austin, a town of about a quarter million souls, distinctive because it is the capital of Texas as well as the location of the main branch of the state university.
BOOKS
BURTON'S BOOK OF THE BLUES Burton Wilson
Privately published — Austin, Texas 1972
Burton’s Book of the Blues is 66 photographs taken by Burton Wilson during the years 1966-72. The action occurs mostly in Austin, a town of about a quarter million souls, distinctive because it is the capital of Texas as well as the location of the main branch of the state university.
Time passed along quietly enough in Austin for years. The college built a reputation as a “party” school with a nationally-ranked football team and up to 35,000 students, all of whom looked alike. As 1966 dawned, however, there appeared more and more longhaired freaks of uncertain sexual derivation and braless women of more precise classification. Austin’s thousands of retired state officials, merchants, lobbyists, politicians and university functionaries weren’t ready. And the freaks gave the alumni fits when they came back to check on the old Alma Mater.