Steve Riley played accordion at the Hill Top Café with Johnny Nicholas, owner/operator of the cafe, backing him up on keyboard and vocals during Big Band Bash in November last year. — Standard-Radio Post file photo
Community, Gillespie Life
For the love of Zydeco
Before Johnny Nicholas bought the old beer joint and gas station that would become Hill Top Café on U.S. 87, the blues singer was a regular at Antone’s Nightclub in Austin. There, he watched the pioneer of zydeco music Clifton Chenier perform in the 1970s.
