As the 1970's come to an end, season 4 of Austin City Limits premiered on PBS.This season's performers include: Michael Murphey, Steve Goodman, John Prine, Bob Wills' Texas Playboys/Ernest Tubb, Chet Atkins/Merle Travis, Doc and Merle Watson/Gove Scrivenor, Johnny Rodriguez/Linda Hargrove, John Hartford/The Dillards, Jesse Winchester/Mother of Pearl, Asleep at the Wheel/Bobby Bridger, Vassar Clements/Gatemouth Brown, Merle Haggard, and Killough & Eckley/The Lost Gonzo Band. Terry Lickona, Ray Lucero, and Gary Menotti join the production crew, while Bill Arhos and Howard Chalmers joined forces as executive producers, and Charles Vaughn as producer-director. Season 3 of Austin City Limits premiered on PBS.This special featured a compilation of clips from the first two seasons of the show's run. The first Austin City Limits special The Best of Austin City Limits: Country Music and Then Some aired on PBS.This season's performers include: Willie Nelson/Tracy Nelson, The Amazing Rhythm Aces/Gove Scrivenor, The Earl Scruggs Revue, Jimmy Buffett/Rusty Wier, Gatemouth Brown/Delbert McClinton, Firefall/Denim, Guy Clark/Steve Fromholz, The Dirt Band/Kiwi, Larry Gatlin/Alex Harvey, and Willis Alan Ramsey/Roy Buchanan.With its second broadcast season, Austin City Limits became PBS's most watched music series.Nunn's "London Homesick Blues" became the theme song. The soundcheck was discontinued, and Gary P. Season 2 of Austin City Limits premiered on PBS.Stevenson/Bobby Bridger, Wheatfield, Balcones Fault, Greezy Wheels/Marcia Ball, The Charlie Daniels Band, and Jerry Jeff Walker/The Lost Gonzo Band. This season's performers include: Asleep at the Wheel/Bob Wills Texas Playboys, Rusty Wier, Townes Van Zandt/Clifton Chenier, Flaco Jimenez and his Conjunto/Ry Cooder, Doug Sahm, Alvin Crow & The Pleasant Valley Boys, Steve Fromholz, B.W.Prior to that season, Terry Lickona began his television career at KLRN, hosting a locally produced talk show This Week.This is the first season with the 1971-1984 PBS logo.He used it as the audio to accompany each episode's 2 minute opening sequence. Season 1 of Austin City Limits premiered on PBS, each episode began with a soundcheck ran by producer Paul Bosner.So they took the pilot to the local public television station KLRN in San Antonio and Austin, Texas. Bill Arhos pitched the pilot as part of a PBS pledge drive. The pilot episode of Austin City Limits featuring Willie Nelson, which aired on March 22, 1975, but the initial audience was small.
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