
Bruce Channel Perdido Key FL Nov 2015
Backstage at the Flora-Bama Main Room during the Frank Brown International Songwriters' Festival. Bruce co-wrote and recorded the 1962 hit 'Hey! Baby'
Credit: Uschi Moyer © 2015

Fred Ermentrout Captiva Island FL Jan 13, 2016
At Jensen's Marina. Fred played lead guitar on Austin's song 'Mother Maybelle's L-5', recorded earlier that day at Jimmy Jensen's Barefoot Studio.

Alison Krauss Nashville TN 1997
Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry. What can you say!? - Austin

Roy Acuff Nashville TN 1988
In his dressing room at the Grand Ole Opry. Sign on Acuff's door ... "Ain't nothing gonna come up today that me and the Good Lord can't handle"

Ray Price Nashville TN 1996
At the Ernest Tubb Texas Troubadour Theatre. "My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You", and little things like "For the Good Tiimes" ... off the charts! - Austin

Roy Clark Nashville TN 1988
At the Grand Ole Opry

Steve Cropper Golf Tour 1994
Songwriter - Midnight Hour, Dock of the Bay Guitarist - Blues Brothers Band

Hank's Grave Montgomery AL 1982
With unknown boy ... 77 visible on his shirt is the year I started my Rockin' Band in Athens, GA - Austin
Credit: Tom Sangster

Phil Niekro Nashville TN Oct 1996
At the Ernest Tubb Texas Troubadour Theatre. Hall of Fame knuckleballer, mainly for the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves.

Gig at Bobby's Idle Hour Nashville TN Oct 12 2016
With (l-r) Karen Pendley, Ottar "Big Hand" Johansen and Bjorn "Southern" Nilsen

With Brent Moyer at a private gig Panama City FL November 2017
Credit: Jimmy Jensen

Doug Dillard
Banjo player of the famous Dillards bluegrass group
Doug was one of the most full of life guys I have ever known, you can tell by his joyous smile - Austin

Edmund Skellings Melbourne FL 2009
Edmund was the Poet Laureate of Florida from 1980 to 2012

With Hall of Fame songwriter Kostas Captiva FL September 2019
The two met up at the BMI Island Hopper Songwriter Fest
Kostas wrote the 1988 Patty Loveless hit Timber, I'm Falling in Love

At the Celebration of Life Tribute to Joe Sun Sunday November 10, 2019
This event took place at the Flora-Bama Dome Stage, Orange Beach AL
Joining in the Tribute were Brent Moyer, Alan Rhody, Ottar Johansen, Bjørn Nilsen, Jim Sales, Nick Branch, and Damien Lamb

Students at London's Christ the Saviour School sing along to Austin's Miss Ola (The Mississippi Giver) October 2019
October is Black History Month in the UK

With Jay Smith at Cocoa Beach Public Library
"Music on a Sunday Afternoon" concert - Feb 26 2023

(l-r) Austin, Brent Moyer, Marie Nofsinger, and Tim McGeary at Margood Harbor Theater, Goodland FL
10,000 Songs from the 10,000 Islands show April 3 2023

(l-r) Tim McGeary, Brent Moyer, Austin, and JRobert Houghtaling at Margood Harbor Theater, Goodland FL
10,000 Songs from the 10,000 Islands show April 3 2023

(l-r) Tim McGeary, Brent Moyer, Austin, and JRobert Houghtaling at Margood Harbor Theater, Goodland FL
10,000 Songs from the 10,000 Islands show April 3 2023
Credit: Mary Zachrich