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In 1974, a young muscian from New Jersey traveled to play a show in a small music venue in the South. He subsequently wrote a lyric immortalizing the venue: "Hey Frank, won't you pack your bags And meet me tonight down at Liberty Hall." The song was "This Hard Land." The city: Houston. And the young muscian was none other than The Boss, Bruce Springsteen. “Now Playing Houston: The Liberty Hall Poster Show” will display...

Now Playing Houston: The Liberty Hall Poster Show Houston rocks, but back in the day, we really rocked and Liberty Hall was a premiere downtown music venue. From the late sixties to the mid seventies it hosted such artists as Waylon Jennings, Bruce Springsteen, Lightnin' Hopkins, Johnny Winter, Ted Nugent, Gram Parsons, ZZ Top, the Velvet Underground, The Ramones and a pre-gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman. See a collection of posters from this era on...