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Texas Music Road Trips

Curated drives connecting dance halls, recording studios, birthplaces, and burial grounds across the Lone Star State.

The Lubbock-High Plains Music Trail The Hill Country Dance Hall Trail + Build your own
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Curated Trails
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Buddy Holly Center

The Lubbock-High Plains Music Trail

Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings, and Joe Ely all grew up within 50 miles of each other.…
Wood-sided Albert Dance Hall with picnic tables in Albert, Texas

The Hill Country Dance Hall Trail

German settlers built these halls for brass bands and beer. Then Texas country music moved in.…
Regions Worth a Drive

East Texas

Deep pines and deep blues — Port Arthur, Beaumont, Linden.

16 places

Hill Country

Gruene Hall, Luckenbach, and the Texas dance hall heartland.

10 places

West Texas

Buddy Holly, Joe Ely, and the wide open Lubbock Sound.

0 places

Gulf Coast

Corpus Christi, Galveston, and the Tex-Mex border sound.

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Live Music This Month
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Oct 24
Temple: Ray Wylie Hubbard at Cultural Activities Center
Oct 24
Dallas: Pete Yorn at The Kessler Theater
Oct 24
Dallas: Robert Ellis at Sons of Hermann Hall
Oct 24
Dallas: Killer Queen at Longhorn Ballroom
Oct 26
San Antonio: Three Days Grace at Frost Bank Center
Build Your Own

Design your perfect Texas music day

Use the full map to pick your own stops — filter by city, genre, or category, then combine landmarks into your own custom road trip.

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