Thrill to an hour of classic Austin City Limits performances from late Texas blues rocker Stevie Ray Vaughan and his band Double Trouble. Songs include “Pride and Joy,” “Crossfire,” and “Texas Flood.” Watch this weekend on your local @PBS station or stream beginning Monday pbs.org/austincitylimits | Austin City Limits

🏙️The pilot that started it all. October 17, 1974 was the day Austin City Limits welcomed Willie Nelson to the stage for the first time to tape the pilot episode of what would go on to be the longest running music television show in American history. #ACLturns50 #acltv | Austin City Limits

ACL TV has been turning living rooms into music venues since 1974.📺️🎶 The pilot was shot on October 17, 1974, and starred Willie Nelson, who was not yet the iconographic American music figure he would become. The deliberate lack of production slickness and attention to audio detail pleased even the notoriously TV-shy Nelson, and the pilot was pitched to PBS as part of its 1975 pledge drive. The show’s success as a fundraiser was enough to get ACL greenlighted as a series, and the odyssey began