Today is the birthday of Waylon Jennings. He would be 89 today. Waylon Arnold Jennings was born in Littlefield, Texas on June 15, 1937 — a small cotton-farming town on the South Plains. He was playing on Lubbock radio by fourteen. Buddy Holly hired him as bassist for the Winter Dance Party tour in 1959. […]
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1 event,Today is the birthday of Kris Kristofferson. He would be 90 today. Kristoffer Kristofferson was born in Brownsville, Texas on June 22, 1936 — deep South Texas, on the Mexican border. His father was a major general in the Air Force. Kristofferson became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, then an Army Ranger and helicopter pilot, […] |
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Today is the birthday of Bobby Day. He is 98. You know the song. It starts with a two-note guitar figure and a sharp little percussion break. Then a voice climbs straight into the sky. "Rockin' Robin" came out of Fort Worth, Texas — and Bobby Day built it. Born Robert James Byrd on July […] 
Today is the birthday of Victor Willis. He would have turned 75. Victor Willis — born in Dallas, Texas, on July 1, 1951 — died on June 30, 2026, one day before his 75th birthday. Still, he spent those 74 years doing something most people never manage. He wrote songs that became part of the […] |
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