Introducing Baby Blue Studio & the Eastside Lounge
Channel: AustinMusicMap
Date: 07/09/2012

Much has been written about how gentrification in East Austin is changing the character of old communities. But one strip of Austin's Eastside, famous for the blues, is retaining its character as a musical hotbed... albeit for a new sound.

For the past three and a half years, Baby Blue Studio has been operated by Bill Baird, a local musician and artist. He uses the space as a recording studio and rents it out for shows to help cover the cost. The low blue building has become the home for Exploded Drawing, a regular series of underground electronic music shows.

But before the building was one of Austin's most interesting DIY spaces, it was a blues club called the Eastside Lounge, which featured music five nights a week by regulars like Hosea Hargrove, T.D. Bell, and Sly & the Houserockers...

This story features the voices of Bill Baird and William (B.B.) Lee, a resident of East Austin for more than 70 years.

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