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scene, he's a revered elder statesman to countless performers and songwriters who teethed and grew up on his music. "They’ve let me know I inspired them and showed them how it could be done." Nunn moved back to the Austin area in 2003.
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played early in their careers. "It seems every time we had a young and upcoming band up there, it was like they hit a diving board and just sprung into the air," Nunn notes. And within today's thriving Texas and
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as a sixth grader. He began his musical career as a seventh grader in a garage band in
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where he was a pharmacy major. Nunn was there at the start of the "cosmic cowboy" movement with one of Austin's favorite bands, The
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