Cactus Cafe through the years

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2006: Slaid Cleaves performs at Cactus Cafe.

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2006: Slaid Cleaves performs at Cactus Cafe.

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Cactus Cafe through the years

2006: Slaid Cleaves performs at Cactus Cafe.

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2006: P.F. Sloan performs at the Cactus Cafe.

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2005: A David Garza show draws a capacity crowd at the Cactus Cafe.

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2005: David Garza performs at the Cactus Cafe.

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2004: Cactus Cafe employees Susan Svedeman, left, Chris Lueck and Griff Luneburg have collectively worked over 55 years at the live music venue on the University of Texas campus.

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2004: From his small, postered office behind the venue's bar, Griff Luneburg schedules bands and generally runs the show at the Cactus Cafe. A plastered wall near his desk has been worn to the wood from over two decades of being used as a foot rest.

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2004: Townes Van Zandt, along with Nanci Grifith, Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen, played often at the Cactus Cafe as young singer-songwriters.

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2000: The Flatlanders (Joe Ely, left, Jimmy Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock) perform at the Cactus Cafe.

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1998: Bruce Hornsby plays a grand piano and sings on stage at the Cactus Cafe during a SXSW party.

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1998: Kimmie Rhodes performs at the Cactus Cafe.

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1998: Greg Johnson, music critic for the Oklahoma Gazette, left, Don Waller, author and music critic based in Los Angeles, Claudia Perry of the Newark Star-Ledger and Dave Marsh, author and music critic, perform 'Wild Thing' at the Cactus Cafe.

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1998: Molly Ivins performs at the Cactus Cafe.

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1998: Michael Fracasso and Charlie Sexton perform at the Cactus Cafe.

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1997: Ray Wylie Hubbard performs at the Cactus Cafe.

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1997: Beaver Nelson performs at the Cactus Cafe.

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1997: Butch Hancock performs at the Cactus Cafe.

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1997: Kelly Willis performs at the Cactus Cafe.

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1995: Lydia Lunch and Exene Cervenka perform at the Cactus Cafe.

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1995: Hamell on Trial performs at the Cactus Cafe.

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An undated UT photo shows what the Cactus Cafe looked like before it was a music venue.

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Poster promoting a 1994 Steve Forbert show at the Cactus Cafe.

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Poster promoting a 1994 Townes Van Zandt show at the Cactus Cafe.

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Poster promoting the 1993 Songwriters on the Road show at the Cactus Cafe, featuring Michael Fracasso, David Malley, Jimmy LaFave and Jo Carol Pierce.

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Poster promoting a 1993 Sara Hickman show at the Cactus Cafe.

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Poster promoting a 1993 Alejandro Escovedo Show at the Cactus Cafe.

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Poster promoting a Shoulders show at the Cactus Cafe.

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Poster promoting a Loudon Wainwright III show at the Cactus Cafe.

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Poster promoting an Iris DeMent show at the Cactus Cafe.

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Poster promoting a Guy Clark show at the Cactus Cafe.

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Poster promoting a Darden Smith show at the Cactus Cafe.

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