Eddie Durham: San Marcos’s Electric Architect
Today is the birthday of Eddie Durham. He would be 120 today. Eddie Durham heard electricity in a guitar string before almost anyone else did. He grew up in San […]
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Laura Canales: Kingsville’s Reina de la Onda Tejana
Today is the birthday of Laura Canales. She would be 72 today. Laura Canales of Kingsville, Texas, ruled Tejano music before most fans had heard of Selena. From 1983 to […]
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Dimebag Darrell: Arlington’s Heavy Metal God
Today is the birthday of Dimebag Darrell. He would be 60 today. Darrell Lance Abbott was born in Arlington, Texas on August 20, 1966. He and his brother Vinnie Paul […]
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Kenny Rogers: Houston’s Country Gambler
Today is the birthday of Kenny Rogers. He would be 88 today. Kenneth Donald Rogers was born in Houston, Texas on August 21, 1938, in the Third Ward. His family […]
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Kacey Musgraves: Golden’s Shimmering Songwriter
Today is the birthday of Kacey Musgraves. She is 38 today. Kacey Musgraves grew up in Golden, Texas, a Wood County hamlet with more cows than people. Sulphur Springs, the […]
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Buster Smith: Dallas’s Quiet Architect of Bebop
Today is the birthday of Buster Smith. He would be 122 today. Buster Smith taught bebop's future star before bebop even had a name. He grew up in Ellis County, […]
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Chelo Silva: Brownsville’s Queen of Bolero Heartbreak
Today is the birthday of Chelo Silva. She would be 104 today. Chelo Silva of Brownsville, Texas, sang heartbreak like she had personally invented it. Her voice carried the ache […]
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Kenny Dorham Birthday
Kenny Dorham was born in 1924 in Fairfield — the bebop trumpet giant who co-founded the Jazz Messengers and wrote the standard "Blue Bossa."
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Freddie King: Gilmer’s Texas Cannonball
Today is the birthday of Freddie King. He would be 92 today. If you've spent any time in a Texas blues club, you've heard Freddie King — whether you knew […]
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Hank Thompson: Waco’s Honky-Tonk Businessman
Today is the birthday of Hank Thompson. He would be 101 today. Hank Thompson turned honky-tonk into a business empire, and he ran it like a general. He grew up […]
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Beyoncé: Houston’s Queen
Today is the birthday of Beyoncé. She is 45 today. Beyoncé Giselle Knowles was born in Houston, Texas on September 4, 1981. She grew up in the Third Ward and […]
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Buddy Holly: Lubbock’s Everlasting Echo
Today is the birthday of Buddy Holly. He would be 90 today. Charles Hardin Holley was born in Lubbock, Texas on September 7, 1936. The South Plains city was dry […]