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SUMMARY:Terry Allen: Wichita Falls' Poet of the Plains
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Terry Allen. He is 83 today. \nTerry Allen was born in Wichita Falls\, Texas on May 7\, 1943. The Panhandle edge and the oil field country made an impression that never washed off. Allen grew up to become one of the most genuinely original artists Texas has produced — songwriter\, visual artist\, playwright\, and performance artist simultaneously. He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles\, but his imagination never left the red-dirt towns of West Texas. \nThe Lubbock Suite That Explained Everything\nHis 1979 album Lubbock (on everything) is a masterpiece — a song cycle about Lubbock\, Texas\, that is also a song cycle about America\, desire\, violence\, and memory. David Byrne of Talking Heads called it one of his favorite records. Guy Clark\, Joe Ely\, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore all consider Allen a peer. He has exhibited visual art at the Museum of Modern Art. He has written plays for major theaters. He has never stopped making all of it simultaneously\, and none of it sounds like anything else. Find his place items on Texas Music Map.
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SUMMARY:Trini Lopez: Dallas's Rock and Roll Ambassador
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Trini Lopez. He would be 89 today. \nTrinidad Lopez III was born in Dallas\, Texas on May 15\, 1937\, in the Segundo Barrio neighborhood of West Dallas. His father played bajo sexto in the Dallas Mexican-American community\, and Trini absorbed the music early. He played local clubs through his teens and moved to Los Angeles in his early twenties\, landing a gig at PJ’s nightclub in Hollywood. One night\, Frank Sinatra walked in. He liked what he heard. \nLive at PJ’s and Beyond\nSinatra signed Lopez to his Reprise Records label in 1963. Trini Lopez at PJ’s came out that year and produced a Top 5 hit with “If I Had a Hammer.” Lopez delivered it with a driving guitar rhythm that turned a protest song into a dance floor hit. He appeared in The Dirty Dozen in 1967 alongside Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine. He became one of the most internationally recognized Latin entertainers of his era\, touring Europe extensively through the 1960s and 1970s. He died August 11\, 2020\, from COVID-19\, in Palm Springs. Dallas’s West Side sent one of its best to the world stage. Learn more on Wikipedia.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/trini-lopez-birthday/
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SUMMARY:George Strait: Poteet's Country King
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of George Strait. He is 74 today. \nGeorge Harvey Strait was born in Poteet\, Texas on May 18\, 1952 — the strawberry capital of Texas\, deep in the South Texas brush country. He grew up on a ranch outside Pearsall and joined the army\, where he played in a country band. He came back to Texas\, enrolled at Southwest Texas State University\, and formed the Ace in the Hole Band. He played the honky-tonk circuit across Texas for years before MCA Records signed him in 1981. \nSixty Number Ones\n“Unwound” was his first charting single. Then came “Fool Hearted Memory” at No. 1 in 1982. Then the hits simply did not stop. Strait accumulated 60 No. 1 singles on the Billboard country charts — more than any other artist in any genre. He did it without chasing trends. He wore a cowboy hat and played traditional country music at a moment when the industry was moving toward pop crossover. He became the reason the movement failed. He won the CMA Entertainer of the Year award in 1985\, 1986\, 2008\, and 2013. Find his place items on Texas Music Map and learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/george-strait-birthday/
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SUMMARY:T-Bone Walker: Linden's Electric Prophet
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of T-Bone Walker. He would be 116 today. \nAaron Thibeaux Walker was born in Linden\, Texas on May 28\, 1910 — deep East Texas\, in Cass County pine country. His family moved to Dallas when he was two. He grew up in the Oak Cliff neighborhood and learned to play guitar and banjo in the street tradition. As a teenager he led Blind Lemon Jefferson through the Dallas streets\, learning from the master. Then he decided to take the guitar somewhere Blind Lemon hadn’t gone: electric. \nThe Language Every Guitarist Still Speaks\nT-Bone Walker was the father of the electric blues guitar. His recordings for Capitol in the late 1940s — “Call It Stormy Monday\,” “T-Bone Shuffle” — invented the vocabulary. The bent note\, the behind-the-back guitar trick\, the walking around the stage while playing: all of it started with Walker. B.B. King heard him at a Dallas club around 1946 and went home a different musician. Freddie King\, Albert King\, Buddy Guy — they all learned a language that Walker wrote. He died March 16\, 1975\, in Los Angeles. But pick up any electric blues record ever made and you’re hearing Linden\, Texas. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/t-bone-walker-birthday/
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SUMMARY:Lydia Mendoza: Houston's Lark of the Border
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Lydia Mendoza. She would be 110 today. \nLydia Mendoza was born in Houston\, Texas on May 31\, 1916\, into a family that performed on the streets of the Texas-Mexico border towns. Her mother played guitar. Her sisters sang. Lydia taught herself 12-string guitar and sang with a voice that was already fully formed before anyone outside the barrio heard it. In 1934\, she recorded “Mal Hombre” for Bluebird Records in San Antonio. She was paid $3.24 for the session. The record became one of the biggest hits in the Spanish-language market and made her a star overnight. \nThe First Superstar of Tejano\nMendoza performed for migrant farmworkers in tent shows and for Mexican-American communities across the Southwest at a time when no major record label took that audience seriously. She recorded over 200 albums across her career. President Jimmy Carter invited her to perform at his inauguration in 1977. President Bill Clinton awarded her the National Medal of Arts in 1999. She died December 20\, 2007\, in San Antonio\, having never entirely left the world she grew up in. The 12-string guitar and the voice were all she ever needed. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
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