Sharon and Lew Andre Mathews collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 0829

Staff Only

Finding aid note: Request access to this digital material (stored on Fondren Library's nearline / non-public server) by contacting Woodson Research Center staff at woodson@rice.edu. Please use the Identifier number in your request.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains scanned images of photographs, fliers, posters, as well as digitized and born digital video.

Dates

Creation: 1975 - 2018

Conditions Governing Access

This material is open for research.

Request access to this digital material (stored on Fondren Library's nearline / non-public server) by contacting Woodson Research Center staff at woodson@rice.edu. Please use the Identifier number in your request.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish from this material must be obtained from Sharon Mathews and Lew Andre Mathews.

Conditions Governing Use

Sharon and Lew Andre Mathews collection, 1974-2018, MS 823, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

Biographical / Historical

Hailing from New York, Sharon Sterler moved to Houston in the mid-1970s. She worked at a variety of music venues, including Anderson Fair Retail Restaurant, Houlihan's No. 2, Rockefeller's, among others.

After growing up in a military household, Lew Andre Mathews moved to Houston in 1972. He played at Anderson Fair Retail Restaurant, but then traveled throughout Texas with a variety of bands. He played lead guitar with Danny Epps band, as well as joined the Hemmer Ridge Mountain Boys.

Sharon Slane and Lew Andre Mathews married in the mid-1980s. Soon after, they relocated to Austin. In 1989, Lew Andre Mathews took a job at UCLA. They began performing in and around California until they moved back to Texas. Lew Andre Mathews continues to perform and is in the band The Patrons.