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Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe (413 20th St., Galveston)

413 20th St., Galveston
Galveston, TX 77550

409-762-9199

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Owner Wrecks Bell, immortalized in the Townes Van Zandt song "Rex's Blues," says his folkish honky-tonk is one place "where the lyrics still count." From behind the ornate, sheet-music-encrusted bar, Bell serves up draft beer, bass guitar licks and one-liners with equal aplomb to a mixed crowd of shrimpers, ne'er-do-wells and hippies, and the club -- with it's Van Zandt shrine on one wall, trippy '60s style canvases on all the others and Texas flag behind the stage -- is the antidote to the cheesy tourist gunk that plagues G-town.

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  • Towering Townes

    Towering Townes

    By John Nova Lomax | Thu, December 29, 2011

    In the 15 years since his death on New Year's Day in 1997, the now truly late and always great Townes Van Zandt is as extensively documented as any Texas musician has ever been. There's been a documentary film — Be Here to Love Me — and two biogra... More >

  • The Storyteller

    The Storyteller

    By William Michael Smith | Thu, June 16, 2011

    Ramblin' Jack Elliott, who rolls into the Houston exurbs for two shows this week, is truly a dying breed, one of the last mastodons looking down at a herd of cattle and thinking, "Look at those frail, wimpy things." Staccato stories from a free-w... More >

  • Jesse Dayton & Friends Silence Old Quarter Cafe

    By William Michael Smith | Mon, May 23, 2011

    ​Aftermath is so busy in the city, we don't get down to Wrecks Bell's Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe in Galveston enough. But we caught a free ride down Saturday and rectified that situation. And wha More >

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