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Today is the birthday of Narciso Martínez. He would be 115 today. Narciso Martínez built the sound of modern conjunto from a farmhouse near San Benito, Texas. He crossed the border from Reynosa as a small child, and Texas raised him. The Rio Grande Valley, not his birthplace, shaped the music he made. In 1935, […] |
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Today is the birthday of Illinois Jacquet. He would be 104 today. Illinois Jacquet played one saxophone solo that basically invented rock and roll's attitude. His family moved to Houston, Texas when he was still an infant. Illinois Jacquet's Houston, Texas upbringing filled his ears with blues, church, and street parades. He learned tenor saxophone […] |
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Today is the birthday of Sippie Wallace. She would be 128 today. Beulah Thomas was born in Houston, Texas on November 1, 1898. She grew up in the Third Ward singing in the Shiloh Baptist Church, the same gospel current that ran through the Texas blues tradition from the beginning. She moved to New Orleans, […] 
Today is the birthday of Lyle Lovett. He is 69 today. Lyle Pearce Lovett was born in Klein, Texas on November 1, 1957 — a small community north of Houston that was settled by his ancestor Adam Klein in the 1840s. Lovett grew up on his family's land. He studied journalism at Texas A&M and […] |
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Today is the birthday of Delbert McClinton. He is 86 today. Delbert McClinton was born in Lubbock, Texas on November 4, 1940. He grew up in Fort Worth, playing harmonica in the clubs of the Jacksboro Highway strip in the 1950s — a stretch of honky-tonks and dance halls that ran along the city's north […] |
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Today is the birthday of Guy Clark. He would be 85 today. Guy Charles Clark was born in Monahans, Texas on November 6, 1941 — a West Texas oil town in Ward County where the land goes flat in every direction and the sky takes over. His grandmother ran a hotel there. He grew up […] 
Today is the birthday of Doug Sahm. He would be 85 today. Douglas Wayne Sahm was born in San Antonio, Texas on November 6, 1941. He was a genuine Texas prodigy — playing steel guitar on the Louisiana Hayride radio show at five years old, performing with Hank Williams at six. San Antonio gave him […] |
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1 event,Today is the birthday of Scarface. He would be 56 today. Scarface writes verses like a novelist trapped inside a rap booth. He grew up in Houston, Texas, in the Fifth Ward's tough streets. That neighborhood taught him survival before it taught him rhyme schemes. His grandmother, Sonya, gave him his stage name as a […] |
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Today is the birthday of Miranda Lambert. She is 43 today. Miranda Leigh Lambert was born in Longview, Texas on November 10, 1983. East Texas — the pine forests, the small cities with big church cultures and complicated histories — built her directness. Her parents were private investigators who ran a women's shelter. Miranda grew […] |
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Today is the birthday of Scott Joplin. He would be 158 today. Scott Joplin was born around November 24, 1868, near Texarkana, Texas — the border city that straddles the line between Texas and Arkansas. His father was a former slave who played violin. His mother played banjo and sang. A local German-born music teacher […] 
Today is the birthday of Teddy Wilson. He would be 114 today. Teddy Wilson played piano like a man arranging silverware, precise, elegant, never a note out of place. He came from Austin, Texas, and grew up in a family of educators at Tillotson College. Teddy Wilson's Austin, Texas childhood filled his house with books, […] |
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