Bio | Joe Nick Patoski
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Wyatt McSpadden, photographer
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JOE NICK PATOSKI is in his fourth
decade writing about Texas and Texans. He has authored and co-authored
biographies on Selena and Stevie Ray Vaughan, both published by Little,
Brown and Company and the coffeetable books Texas
Mountains, Texas Coast,
and Big Bend National Park all published
by the University of Texas Press. He spent 18 years as a staff writer
for Texas Monthly and more recently
has written for the Texas Observer,
National Geographic, No
Depression, People magazine,
Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine,
Field & Stream, the Los
Angeles Times, the New York Times,
the Big Bend Sentinel, Southwest
Spirit, American Way, the
Austin Chronicle, Harp,
and TimeOut New York, and other publications.
He also contributed an essay to the photo book Conjunto by John Dyer,
also published by University of Texas Press.
In 2003-4, he 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, some of which appeared in the book
My Soul Looks Back
in Wonder by Juan Williams, published by Sterling, and rode on
the The Voices
of Civil Rights bus tour, a 70 day journey across the nation where
personal oral histories on civil rights were collected for the Library
of Congress.
His biography of Willie Nelson will be published this spring by Little,
Brown & Company. An avid swimmer and kayaker, he lives near the village
of Wimberley in the Texas Hill Country.
- Willie Nelson:
An Epic Life The book is in many ways the culmination of my
writings about music, Texas, and Texans. [Little,
Brown & Company, April 2008] Order the book from Amazon
here
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- Big Bend National
Park University of Texas Press, 2006
- Texas Coast
University of Texas Press, 2005
- Texas
Mountains, University of Texas Press, 2001
- Selena: Como
La Flor, Little, Brown & Company, 1996 ("If you're going to
buy one Selena biography, this one is it," Cristina Saralegui, the Cristina
Show, Univision; excerpted for VH1's "Behind The Music")
- Stevie Ray
Vaughan: Caught in the Crossfire, Little, Brown & Company, 1993
(with Bill Crawford); optioned by Miramax Films, 1993-present
- Southern Rock chapter, Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock
& Roll, Random House, revised 1992
- contributed chapter on Tex-Mex music for The Book of Tex-Mex
by Robb Walsh, 2004
- currently collaborating with Eddie Wilson, founder of the Armadillo
World Headquarters, on his memoirs.
- contributed a chapter on the cumbia for the Oxford U.S. Latino/Latina
Encyclopedia, Oxford Press, 2004
Selected album liner notes:
- From
Hell to Gone and Back: Texas Blues (Vanguard) 2003
- Lightnin' Hopkins, The
Tradition Masters (Rykodisc, 2002)
- Freda & The Firedogs
(Plug Music) 2002
- Robert Ealey, Turn Out the Lights (Black Top) 1996
- Joe Ely, Letter to Laredo (Rounder) 1995
- The Best of the Texas Tornados (Warners) 1994
- The Voice: Freddy Fender's Greatest Hits, the Crazy Cajun Recordings
(Edsel/UK), 1999
- Texas Monthly Presents: Honed On the Range: Texas Music, Volumes 1-5,
1989 to present (Texas Monthly magazine special products)
- Flaco Jimenez, El Sonido de San Antonio (Arhoolie) 1980
Magazine experience:
- Staff writer, Texas Monthly magazine, 1985-2003
Freelance experience:
- 2002-2006 articles in No Depression, Harp, Austin
Chronicle, Dallas Morning News (including profile on Mathew
Knowles, father and manager of Beyonce
Knowles and Destiny's Child).
Also contributed to Rolling Stone, Spin, and Country
Music magazines, among other publications.
Radio:
- Radio commentary, Joe Nick is a weekly guest on Kevin
& Kevin KGSR in the Morning, Austin, 1991-present
- Radio personality and co-producer of two 12 hour Texas music specials,
KUT-FM, Austin, 1975-1979
- Radio personality, KFAD-FM, Arlington, 1971
Newspapers
- Austin American-Statesman, 1977-1978
- Dallas Morning News, 2003
Management
- Joe King Carrasco & the Crowns, recording artists for Stiff, MCA,
Big Beat, and New Rose records, 1979-1985
- True Believers, recording artists for Rounder/EMI records, 1985-1986
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