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Watt Casey Photography
We were able to confirm that our wonderful videographer, Halle, will be available to livestream the program on August 3rd. Anyone you would like to attend virtually will be able to join at the Zoom link here That link will also get shared with our members via email as a reminder for them to join us on the day of the event.
2024
My photographs are being used in various places including albums, books, documentaries, magazines, for publicity and marketing, etc.
April 28th 2024 The Rolling Stones played NRG in Houston I took a lot of photographs from Ronnie’s pit sending them to Ronnie, Chuck Leavell and Jane Rose. Finally on July 21st I photographed their final Hackney Diamonds concert from Ronnie’s pit at Thunder Ridge Nature Arena in Ridgedale MO…… then emailing the photographs to Ronnie, Chuck and Jane.
In late March 2024 I worked with Geoff Gans who does the majority of Bob Dylan’s graphic design for the Bootleg Series and other artists including Paul Simon and Lukas Nelson recent albums. We were in Austin where I photographed Ray Benson for his forthcoming album Swingin’ and Shankin’ Geoff is designing. Geoff and I have been in contact since 2002. Over the years he has been kind to put Bob Dylan photographs in two of Dylan’s box set releases and given me other jobs in Texas.
Randall Bart at the Johnny Cash Museum in Nashville has a side project that I am involved with. HonorThyLegends can be found on Facebook. Randall now has a large number of my photographs of Johnny and June Carter Cash with ( John Anderson, Marty Stuart who was in Johnny’s band at the time and the Oak Ridge Boys ), Merle Haggard, Willie, Billy Joe Shaver, Charlie Daniels, Vasaar Clement, Johnny Gimble and others to post. The site has 13 thousand followers.
Jimmie Vaughan’s The Jimmie Vaughan Story box set came out of England and has photographs. One interesting thing is we gave three box sets to Mick, Keith and Ronnie when the Rolling Stones played the Cotton Bowl November 2nd 2021. At the same time we left a number of prints of Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Albert King, B. B. King and other bluesmen and prints of The Rolling Stones in the Cotton Bowl July 6th, 1975. The Stones gave me a photo pass for the 2021 show.
Many on and offstage photographs of Stevie Ray Vaughan can be found in the New York Times best seller book: “Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan” by Alan Paul and Andy Aledort released August 13th, 2019. I was fortunate to be around Stevie from 1975 on photographing him way before he became a household name in the USA and the world. What turned out to be Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble’s last show in San Antonio April 25th, 1990 was the last time we visited. Their final Texas shows were in Austin and Houston.
May 31st 2019| A Large Photograph Exhibit Opened @ the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock TX with a Gallery Talk & Book Signing Sunday Afternoon June 2nd. A good size crowd was on hand to discuss photographs and walk around the exhibit. By the time the exhibit closed July 21st, 2019, 6600 people from all over the United States and several other countries went through the gallery which is adjacent to the fabulous Buddy Holly Center.
May 25th – February 14, 2019 | Country Music Hall of Fame Nashville TN & Photographs in The OUTLAWS & ARMADILLOS: COUNTRY’S ROARING ‘70S
MY GUITAR IS A CAMERA” by Watt Casey (Texas A&M).
Hearing the deeply cool Watt Casey discuss his lifetime of epic rock, blues and roots music photography made us want to rush out to find this book, packed with amazing photos and contextual essays by Joe Nick Patoski, Steve Miller and more.
The long awaited, much talked about book featuring Watt’s photographs of musicians is available. The book, published by Texas A & M press, is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Book People (Austin TX) and other book stores online and brick and mortar. It will be available nationwide including at the Grammy Museums in California and Mississippi. The focus is on Texas, but includes images from Watt’s work on Eric Clapton’s 1974 US tour, Steve Miller at various shows in TX including Red Rocks west of Denver and Bruce Springsteen at Red Rocks and various Texas shows beginning in 1978. The book was a featured book at the Annual Texas Book Festival in Austin TX November 4/5, 2017 where Watt was asked to be on two panels which resulted in the Austin American journalist Joe Gross giving My Guitar Is a Camera his first pick out of the hundreds if not thousands of books at the festival.
ny others provides a unique view. One of Eric Clapton’s people told me “Bill is a near legendary figure in the music business” and I agree.More Information
In addition to photographing on ranches the early 1970’s found Watt in Austin TX, photographing countless musicians who either lived in Austin or came to Austin on tour. Thus began a career working with local and national musicians. The images are used in local and national publications, publicity material, numerous books, albums (multiple releases by Dylan, Springsteen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, & Muddy Waters have his photographs and most have several different photographs), and on the cover of Bruce Springsteen’s best selling single “WAR”.
Publisher Santa Cruz Press books “Two to Mexico” and “The Lasater Philosophy of Cattle Raising” showcase countless photographs taken in Colorado, Texas and Mexico.