Edwin Osbourne Wilson

Edwin Osbourne Wilson is a former concert promoter and co-founder and owner of the Armadillo World Headquarters (1973–1980).

The original, which he purchased in the mid–1970s from John Kenneth Threadgill (1909–1987), was where Janis Joplin got her start.

Wilson graduated from McCallum High School, Austin, Texas, in the spring of 1963.

At North Texas, he joined the school's Folk Music Club, whose student members included Spencer Perskin,[5] Steven Fromholz, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and Michael Martin Murphey.

The Folk Music Club was founded and sponsored by Stan Alexander (né Stanley Gerald Alexander; 1928–2017),[6] an English professor who had been influenced by the music scene at Threadgill's in Austin while working on his doctorate at The University of Texas.