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Austin: Patty Griffin at the Continental Club

Griffin’s Home Stage on South Congress

Patty Griffin has made the Continental Club her Austin home stage — from Robert Plant charity gigs in 2012 to her 2020 livestream residency on South Congress.

Address 1315 S Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78704

Austin: Patty Griffin

Maine Born, Austin Made

Patty Griffin came to Austin in 1997 on a hunch. Two Grammys and three decades of South Austin folk-soul later, she's still here.

Address 1315 S Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78704

Fort Worth: Caravan of Dreams

The club brought adventurous programming in a city that deserved it

Caravan of Dreams opened in downtown Fort Worth in 1983 with a rooftop geodesic dome and Ornette Coleman performing on opening night. It was the most interesting room in North Texas.

Address 312 Houston Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102

Fort Worth: I.M. Terrell High School

I.M. Terrell High School in Fort Worth, Texas, produced Ornette Coleman, Dewey Redman, and Prince Lasha — an unlikely nursery for the free jazz revolution.

Address 1411 E. 12th Street, Fort Worth, TX 76104

Fort Worth: Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, and changed jazz forever. The city that shaped his sound gave him the keys to it in 1983.

Address 312 Houston Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102

Lubbock: Lubbock High School

Where Mac Davis and Joe B. Mauldin of the Crickets went to school together

Lubbock High School produced Mac Davis, who wrote “In the Ghetto” for Elvis Presley, and Joe B. Mauldin, bassist for Buddy Holly’s Crickets — two of the most important figures in 1950s American music.

Address 2004 19th Street, Lubbock, TX 79401

Lubbock: Mac Davis Lane

Downtown Lubbock’s 6th Street, renamed in 2004 — only the second Lubbock street named for a musician

Two streets in Lubbock carry the names of musicians. One is Buddy Holly Avenue. The other is Mac Davis Lane — the renamed 6th Street that runs through the downtown blocks where Mac Davis grew up.

Address Mac Davis Lane, Lubbock, TX 79401

Lubbock: Mac Davis Gravesite

The songwriter who gave Elvis ‘In the Ghetto’ — and was buried in Lubbock in his jeans, as promised

Mac Davis wrote seven songs for Elvis Presley, including “In the Ghetto,” from the flat Panhandle city where he grew up. He promised to be buried in Lubbock in his jeans. He kept the promise.

Address 2011 E. 31st Street, Lubbock, TX 79404

DFW Airport: Terry Allen's Wish sculpture

Terry Allen’s 30-foot bronze wishbone hangs over security at DFW Airport Terminal D

Everyone who passes through DFW Airport’s Terminal D walks under a 30-foot bronze wishbone. Terry Allen made it. He titled it Wish.

Address Terminal D, Gate D30, DFW International Airport, TX 75261

San Marcos: Terry Allen sculpture at the Wittliff Collections

Terry Allen’s Caw Caw Blues sculpture at the Wittliff Collections holds the ashes of Guy Clark

The entrance to the Wittliff Collections in San Marcos holds a bronze crow made by Terry Allen. It holds the ashes of Guy Clark. He titled it Caw Caw Blues — after the last song Clark worked on before he died.

Address 601 University Dr, San Marcos, TX 78666

Lubbock: Terry Allen at Stubb's Bar-B-Q

Where CB Stubblefield hosted Johnny Cash, B.B. King, and Stevie Ray Vaughan — and Terry Allen built his memorial

CB Stubblefield opened a barbecue restaurant at 108 East Broadway in Lubbock in 1968. He said he was just a cook. The musicians who played his Sunday night jams — Johnny Cash, B.B. King, Willie Nelson, Stevie Ray Vaughan — didn’t believe him.

Address 108 East Broadway, Lubbock, TX 79401