Texas Is The Reason: The Mavericks of Lone Star Punk

A lavish, documentary-style collection of vivid 1980s photographs of Texas punk pioneers Big Boys, the Dicks, Butthole Surfers, Poison 13, the Hickoids, the Offenders, Scratch Acid, Daniel Johnston, Doctors’ Mob, Glass Eye, plus visiting luminaries of the era Sonic Youth, Devo, Samhain, Soul Asylum, the Replacements, and the Dead Kennedys.
Arriving in 1978, hitched to the back of the Sex Pistols' tour bus, Texas punk rock soon became as mythic as the state's devotion to football, cattle and prayer. Confrontational renegades like the Huns, the Big Boys, and the Dicks led a defiant new era of blood, sweat and cross-dressing cowboys. Austin son Pat Blashill grabbed a camera and uncovered a story of creative deliverance, set in trailer parks, low-rent shared living and wild, Texas bucket-of-beer bars. Joining over 300 deep black and white photos by Blashill are essays by director Richard Linklater (Slacker / Boyhood), singer David Yow (Scratch Acid / Jesus Lizard), drummer Teresa Taylor (Butthole Surfers) and local luminaries Adriane 'Ash' Shown and Donna Rich. True mavericks banded together to make a stand and... Texas is the Reason.