Today is the birthday of Mance Lipscomb. He would be 131 today. Beau De Glen Lipscomb was born in Navasota, Texas on April 9, 1895 — the son of a sharecropper and a former slave. He spent sixty years as a farmer and part-time musician in Grimes County, playing dances and picnics for his neighbors. […]
Today is the birthday of Selena. She would be 55 today. Selena Quintanilla was born in Lake Jackson, Texas on April 16, 1971. Her father Abraham had played in a Tejano band and knew the business. He recognized something in his youngest daughter early and built a family band around her. They played restaurants and […]
Today is the birthday of Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. He would be 102 today. Clarence Brown was born on April 18, 1924 in Vinton, Louisiana — but Texas made him. His family moved to Orange, and Brown grew up absorbing everything the Gulf Coast offered: blues, country, Western Swing, jazz, zydeco. He played guitar, violin, viola, […]
Today is the birthday of Roy Orbison. He would be 90 today. Roy Kelton Orbison was born in Vernon, Texas on April 23, 1936, and grew up in West Texas oil towns — Wink and Odessa. He had an operatic tenor voice in a land of honky-tonk. He started recording in Clovis, New Mexico with […]
Country music legend Willie Nelson's birthday is April 29. He was born in 1933 in Abbott, near Waco in Central Texas. However, due to a clerical error on his birth certificate, his birthday was recorded as April 30. As a result, Nelson celebrates his birthday on both April 29 and April 30 each year.
Today is the birthday of Willie Nelson. He is 93 today. Willie Hugh Nelson was born in Abbott, Texas on April 29, 1933. Abbott is a small farming community in Hill County, about sixty miles south of Fort Worth. His parents left when he was young. His grandparents raised him. He was picking cotton at […]
Today is the birthday of Terry Allen. He is 83 today. Terry 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, […]
