Austin City Limits closes out its 48th Season this weekend with a very special hour. The 8th Annual Austin City Limits Hall of Fame salutes Texas music pioneer Joe Ely. Guests include famed Texas songwriting legends Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore along with all-stars Rodney Crowell, Marcia Ball and Lloyd Maines. Watch on your local PBS station or stream beginning Sunday at pbs.org/austincitylimits | Austin City Limits

The featured @SXSW panel, "Backstage with Austin City Limits: Five Decades of Music," is now available to watch below. Get nostalgic with us as we look back on 50 years of curating, producing and preserving music in what is the longest running music television program in history. The panel was moderated by Austin PBS Chief Content Officer Sara Robertson, who took us down five decades of memory lane with Executive Producer Terry Lickona, Producer Jeff Peterson, and Marketing Director Associate Pr

Flashback to Season 41, where you see longtime Austin City Limits production crew member Ray Lucero getting inked up. Lucero's tenure with ACL dates all the way back to Season 1, so he was a natural choice for a show opening cameo. Many believe to this day Lucero got a real tattoo, but we're finally debunking the rumor. The tattoo is indeed fake, and ACL videographer Jonathan Jackson even gave Lucero direction to wince during the shot to make it look more believable. Ray Lucero retired earlier t

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