Joe Nick Patoski

Joe Nick Patoski has authored and co-authored biographies of Willie Nelson, Selena, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and the Dallas Cowboys, in addition to collaborations with photographer Laurence Parent on books about the Texas Mountains, the Texas Coast, and Big Bend National Park. A staff writer for Texas Monthly magazine for 18 years and a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman, he has managed rock-and-roll bands, run record stores, and worked in radio in Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin. He also recorded the oral histories of B.B. King, Clarence Fountain of the Blind Boys of Alabama, Memphis musician and producer Jim Dickinson, Tejano superstar Little Joe Hernandez, and 15 other subjects for the Voice of Civil Rights oral history project sponsored by the Library of Congress. He hosts a weekly radio program about Texas music for Marfa Public Radio. Patoski first interviewed Doug Sahm in 1973 and their friendship endured until Sahm's death.

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