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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260820
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SUMMARY:Dimebag Darrell: Arlington's Heavy Metal God
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Dimebag Darrell. He would be 60 today. \nDarrell Lance Abbott was born in Arlington\, Texas on August 20\, 1966. He and his brother Vinnie Paul grew up in a musical household — their father Jerry Abbott was a country music producer. Darrell picked up guitar early and immediately went somewhere else entirely. He and Vinnie formed Pantera with singer Phil Anselmo in the late 1980s. They started as a glam metal band in Arlington clubs and then reinvented themselves as something heavier\, angrier\, and more technically precise than the genre had seen. \nThe Groove Metal Blueprint\nVulgar Display of Power came out in 1992 and changed heavy metal’s direction. Dimebag’s guitar tone — tight\, percussive\, dropped-tuned — became the template for an entire decade of metal. Pantera played to stadium crowds worldwide through the 1990s. Dimebag’s solo on “Cemetery Gates” and the riff of “Walk” are standard texts in metal guitar education. He left Pantera and formed Damageplan with Vinnie Paul. On December 8\, 2004\, Dimebag was shot and killed on stage in Columbus\, Ohio. He was 38. Texas built one of metal’s greatest guitarists in the shadow of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Learn more on Wikipedia.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260819
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260820
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SUMMARY:Laura Canales: Kingsville's Reina de la Onda Tejana
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Laura Canales. She would be 72 today. \nLaura Canales of Kingsville\, Texas\, ruled Tejano music before most fans had heard of Selena. From 1983 to 1986\, she swept the Tejano Music Awards for Female Vocalist and Entertainer of the Year. No one broke that streak for years. Then a teenager from Corpus Christi finally did. Fans called Canales “La Reina de la Onda Tejana\,” the queen of the Tejano wave. She earned every syllable of that title. \nThe Queen Who Ruled Before Selena Ever Took the Stage\nCanales grew up in Kingsville\, a South Texas ranching town near Corpus Christi. She started singing with orquesta bands as a teenager in the 1970s. Her powerful alto cut through horn sections like a knife through leather. Because of that voice\, promoters booked her across every major dance hall in South Texas. She also became one of the first women to front a Tejano orquesta full-time. Audiences packed into venues just to watch her command a stage alone. \nCanales opened doors for women in a genre men had always controlled. Indeed\, before her rise\, female bandleaders barely existed in commercial Tejano music. A young Selena watched Canales dominate the awards circuit and took notes. Their families moved in overlapping South Texas dance-hall circles for years. Selena eventually broke her record\, but Canales paved every inch of that road first. \nLaura Canales died in 2005\, far too soon at just fifty years old. Yet her records still spin at Valley dance halls today. The Laura Canales legacy set the stage for every Tejana who followed. Before Selena\, there was a queen from Kingsville.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260819
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260820
DTSTAMP:20260812T210203Z
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SUMMARY:Eddie Durham: San Marcos's Electric Architect
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Eddie Durham. He would be 120 today. \nEddie Durham heard electricity in a guitar string before almost anyone else did. He grew up in San Marcos\, Texas\, in a family bursting with musicians. Eddie Durham’s San Marcos\, Texas childhood turned into a workshop of homemade instruments and constant practice. He experimented with resonators and amplification the way a tinkerer fixes a stubborn engine. Nobody had asked for a louder guitar\, but Durham built one anyway. \nHe Wrote the Blueprint Before He Played the Solo\nDurham joined Bennie Moten’s territory band\, then Count Basie’s orchestra\, arranging hit after hit. He wrote “Moten Swing\,” a tune that still defines the Kansas City sound. Then he moved to Jimmie Lunceford’s band and later Glenn Miller’s\, shaping their signature charts. His arrangements gave swing bands their punch\, their breath\, their sense of surprise. Meanwhile\, he kept pushing his amplified guitar experiments further than anyone around him. In 1938\, he recorded what many historians call the first electric guitar solo on record. That solo influenced a young Oklahoman named Charlie Christian directly. Durham even mentored him\, passing along tricks he had learned through years of tinkering. Their friendship linked two Texas-bred guitar revolutions in a single decade. His work bridged Texas dance halls and New York recording studios like a sturdy plank. His Southwest roots echo through the same territory-band world that shaped Bob Wills. \nDurham rarely sought the spotlight\, preferring the arranger’s chair over the bandstand’s glare. But without him\, jazz guitar might have stayed quiet much longer. Read more about his overlooked genius via Eddie Durham. San Marcos raised a man who rewired an entire orchestra’s sound.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260722
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260723
DTSTAMP:20260717T193244Z
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SUMMARY:Don Henley: Gilmer's Eagle
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Don Henley. He is 79 today. \nDonald Hugh Henley was born in Gilmer\, Texas on July 22\, 1947. Gilmer is in Upshur County\, in the Piney Woods of deep East Texas. He grew up playing music in Linden — Freddie King country — before heading to North Texas State University. He moved to Los Angeles and met Glenn Frey\, Linda Ronstadt’s band recruited them both\, and by 1971\, the Eagles were formed. But Gilmer stayed in his voice — that dry\, narrative East Texas plainness that grounded the Eagles’ California harmonies. \nThe Storyteller Behind the Band\n“Hotel California” is one of the most analyzed songs in rock history. “Desperado” is a country song that never went to country radio. “The Last Resort” is an environmental jeremiad disguised as a history lesson. Henley wrote or co-wrote all of them. His solo career produced “The Boys of Summer” in 1984 and “The End of the Innocence” in 1989 — both Grammy winners. He has been equally ferocious in protecting Texas: he helped preserve Walden Woods in Massachusetts but returned to fight for Caddo Lake and the Texas environment just as hard. Learn more on Wikipedia.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260720
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260721
DTSTAMP:20260717T191718Z
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SUMMARY:Cindy Walker: Mart's Queen of Country Songwriting
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Cindy Walker. She would be 108 today. \nCindy Walker was born in Mart\, Texas on July 20\, 1918 — a McLennan County farming town between Waco and the Brazos River. Her grandfather was a fiddler. She was writing songs by twelve. At twenty-three\, she drove to Hollywood with her parents\, walked into the Bing Crosby building\, and sang him her own song in the lobby. He recorded it. That was 1941\, and the career had already begun on Walker’s own terms. \nFive Hundred Songs\nWalker returned to Mart and never left Texas for long\, but the songs kept going everywhere else. Bob Wills recorded “Dusty Skies” and “Cherokee Maiden.” Eddy Arnold\, Ernest Tubb\, Red Foley — they all cut her songs. “You Don’t Know Me” was co-written with Eddy Arnold and recorded by Ray Charles in 1962\, becoming one of the most covered songs in American music. Walker wrote over 500 songs and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997. She died March 23\, 2006\, at home in Mexia\, Texas\, not far from where she was born. She never chased the music. She let the music come to her — and it always did. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260715
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260716
DTSTAMP:20260701T150056Z
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SUMMARY:Roky Erickson: Dallas's Psychedelic Pioneer
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Roky Erickson. He would be 79 today. \nRoger Kynard Erickson was born in Dallas\, Texas on July 15\, 1947 and grew up in Austin\, where he sang in garage bands as a teenager with a voice that didn’t sound like anything Texas had produced before — high\, keening\, rawly emotional. He formed the 13th Floor Elevators in 1965 with guitarist Tommy Hall and electric jug player/philosopher Benny Thurman. They played their first shows in Austin before the Summer of Love had a name. \nBefore San Francisco Got There\nThe 13th Floor Elevators released their debut album in 1966 — before most San Francisco psychedelic records existed. “You’re Gonna Miss Me” was the single\, a howling two-minute rocket that remains one of the great raw rock records. Erickson was arrested for possession of marijuana in 1969 and pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to avoid prison. He spent years in the Rusk State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. He emerged damaged but still making music. Decades of troubled years gave way to a late-career revival that allowed him to be recognized as the pioneer he was. He died May 31\, 2019\, in Austin. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/roky-erickson-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260706
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260707
DTSTAMP:20260704T132400Z
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SUMMARY:Nanci Griffith: Seguin's Folk Poet
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Nanci Griffith. She would be 83 today. \nNanci Caroline Griffith was born in Seguin\, Texas\, on July 6\, 1943. She grew up in Austin\, where she played the coffeehouse circuit while studying education at the University of Texas. She was singing her own songs before she was out of high school — detailed\, narrative songs about Texas people and Texas places that didn’t quite fit any category radio had invented. She called her music “folkabilly.” Nobody argued. \nThe Songs That Outlasted the Charts\nGriffith signed with MCA in the mid-1980s and made records that were too country for folk radio and too folk for country radio. “From a Distance” was one of her compositions — Bette Midler took it to No. 1 in 1990. Griffith won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 1994 for Other Voices\, Other Rooms — an album of covers that was also a statement about the folk tradition she had dedicated her life to. She died August 13\, 2021\, in Nashville. The songs she wrote about Texas haunt you for days. Learn more on Wikipedia.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260701
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260702
DTSTAMP:20260701T150130Z
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SUMMARY:Victor Willis: Dallas Gave the Village People Its Voice
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Victor Willis. He would have turned 75. \nVictor 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 permanent furniture of American life. \nHis father was a Baptist minister. Willis grew up singing gospel before his family moved to San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. But he never forgot the voice that started in Dallas. He took it to New York and trained at the Negro Ensemble Company. In 1976\, he appeared in the original Broadway cast of The Wiz. Then came the Village People. \nFrom Dallas to Disco\nThe Village People released their debut album in 1977. Willis sang lead and also co-wrote every major hit — “Y.M.C.A.\,” “Macho Man\,” “In the Navy\,” and “Go West.” These weren’t just disco songs. They became anthems\, heard at every stadium\, every wedding\, every campaign rally for the next five decades. Willis left the group in 1980\, but “Y.M.C.A.” kept playing. Eventually\, he returned to lead the Village People in 2017\, gaining full control of the name. He never stopped performing. \nHe died one day shy of 75. Dallas gave him the voice. The world gave him an audience. And he gave it back something that won’t go away. \nLearn more about Victor Willis on Wikipedia. He shares this July 1 birthday with another Texas music pioneer — Fort Worth-born Bobby Day\, who gave the world “Rockin’ Robin.”
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260701
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SUMMARY:Bobby Day: Fort Worth's Rockin' Robin
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Bobby Day. He is 98. \nYou 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. \nBorn Robert James Byrd on July 1\, 1928\, Day grew up in Fort Worth. By his late teens\, he had decided music was his ticket out. He moved to Los Angeles around 1947 and landed at Johnny Otis’s Barrelhouse Club. It was one of the great proving grounds of West Coast R&B. By 1950\, he had helped form the Hollywood Flames. By 1957\, he had also launched a second group\, the Satellites. That same year\, he wrote “Little Bitty Pretty One” for Thurston Harris — a top-10 Billboard hit. \nThe Bird That Wouldn’t Quit\nBut “Rockin’ Robin” in 1958 put Day on the map for good. The single hit No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the R&B chart. It sold over a million copies and earned a gold disc. Day’s voice had Fort Worth grit underneath. It was warm and deep\, with real swagger. It made a novelty bird song feel like genuine rock and roll history. \nThen the Dave Clark Five took Day’s “Over and Over” to No. 1 in 1965. And in 1972\, the Jackson 5 rerecorded “Rockin’ Robin\,” bringing that Fort Worth sound to a whole new generation. He died on July 27\, 1990\, in Los Angeles. But the bird song never stopped flying. \nThe Texas State Historical Association calls Day a “rhythm-and-blues pioneer and hitmaker.” That fits. But the real trick Day pulled off was writing songs sturdy enough to outlast him by decades. Only the best songwriters manage that. Fort Worth keeps making them.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260622
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260623
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SUMMARY:Kris Kristofferson: Brownsville's Poet Soldier
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Kris Kristofferson. He would be 90 today. \nKristoffer 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\, then a Phi Beta Kappa Golden Gloves boxer. None of it held him. He gave up a military career to move to Nashville and clean floors at Columbia Recording Studios\, where he could slide demo tapes to producers between mop strokes. \nThe Songs That Changed Everything\nRoger Miller cut “Me and Bobby McGee” in 1969. Janis Joplin recorded it days before her death in 1970 and it hit No. 1 posthumously in 1971. Johnny Cash\, Rita Coolidge\, and Sammi Smith all recorded Kristofferson songs. “Help Me Make It Through the Night” and “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down” won CMA Song of the Year back to back in 1970 and 1971. Kristofferson became a film star — A Star Is Born\, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid — without ever leaving the songwriter behind. He died September 28\, 2023\, in Maui. The Brownsville boy who swept floors changed country music forever. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260615
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260616
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SUMMARY:Waylon Jennings: Littlefield's Outlaw King
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Waylon Jennings. He would be 89 today. \nWaylon 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. Jennings gave up his seat on the chartered plane that crashed in Iowa on February 3\, 1959\, killing Holly\, Ritchie Valens\, and the Big Bopper. He carried that weight for the rest of his life. \nThe Nashville Rules He Broke\nJennings moved to Nashville and spent years under RCA’s control — sessions musicians\, producer assignments\, strings. He hated it. In 1973\, he renegotiated his contract and gained creative control. The results came fast. Dreaming My Dreams in 1975. The collaborative album Wanted! The Outlaws in 1976 with Willie Nelson\, Tompall Glaser\, and Jessi Colter — country music’s first platinum album. “Good Ol’ Boys\,” the theme from The Dukes of Hazzard in 1980. Jennings died February 13\, 2002\, in Chandler\, Arizona. But Littlefield\, Texas still runs through every note. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260531
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260601
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260528
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260529
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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.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260518
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260519
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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.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260515
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260516
DTSTAMP:20260701T150037Z
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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.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260507
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260508
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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.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/terry-allen-birthday/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260429
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260430
DTSTAMP:20260812T185457Z
CREATED:20260701T144607Z
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SUMMARY:Willie Nelson: Abbott's Outlaw Poet
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Willie Nelson. He is 93 today. \nWillie 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 six and playing guitar in a band at nine. He played every roadhouse and dance hall in the area before heading to Nashville to sell songs in the late 1950s. Nashville bought them but didn’t quite know what to do with Willie himself. \nThe Outlaw Who Never Left Texas\nPatsy Cline took his “Crazy” to No. 1 in 1961. Faron Young hit with “Hello Walls.” Billy Walker charted “Funny How Time Slips Away.” Nashville loved his pen and ignored his voice. So Nelson moved back to Texas in 1972 and played the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin to a crowd of hippies and rednecks who didn’t care about Nashville’s rules. The Outlaw Country movement grew from that moment. Red Headed Stranger in 1975 was the album that proved it. He has not stopped moving since — touring every year\, farming in Luck\, Texas\, and recording albums in his late eighties. Abbott gave the world its most durable songwriter. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
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SUMMARY:Willie Nelson's birthday
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/willie-nelsons-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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SUMMARY:Roy Orbison: Vernon's Operatic Voice
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Roy Orbison. He would be 90 today. \nRoy 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 Norman Petty — the same producer who worked with Buddy Holly — and had early rockabilly records that didn’t go anywhere. Then he moved to Monument Records in Nashville and found his real register: the dramatic\, tormented love ballad. \nThe Darkness That Was Also Radio Gold\n“Only the Lonely” hit No. 2 in 1960. “Crying” hit No. 2 in 1961. “In Dreams” in 1963. “Oh\, Pretty Woman” went to No. 1 in 1964 and became one of the best-selling singles of the decade. Orbison lost his wife and two sons in separate tragedies in 1966 and 1968. He kept recording. In 1988\, he joined the Traveling Wilburys alongside Bob Dylan\, George Harrison\, Tom Petty\, and Jeff Lynne — and held his own on every track. He died December 6\, 1988\, nine days after the Wilburys’ debut album. The sunglasses were his armor. The voice needed none. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/roy-orbison-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260419
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SUMMARY:Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown: Texas Blues Unboxed
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown. He would be 102 today. \nClarence 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\, drums\, and harmonica. He refused to be categorized\, which annoyed record labels and delighted musicians. He landed in Houston and built a career at the Peacock Club on Almeda Road\, cutting records for Don Robey’s Peacock Records starting in 1949. \nThe Multi-Tool That Defied Every Box\nBrown’s guitar work on “Okie Dokie Stomp” in 1954 is still one of the great showcases in Texas blues. But he was always as likely to be playing fiddle as guitar. He appeared at the Montreux Jazz Festival. He toured the world. He won a Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album in 1982 for Alright Again!. He lived in Slidell\, Louisiana in his later years but never stopped calling Texas home. He died September 10\, 2005\, after Hurricane Katrina destroyed his house and most of his possessions. Find his place items on Texas Music Map.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/gatemouth-brown-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260416
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SUMMARY:Selena: Lake Jackson's Queen of Tejano
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Selena. She would be 55 today. \nSelena 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 small venues across South Texas\, often for tips. Selena was nine years old and already the most magnetic person in the room. \nThe Crossover That Never Happened — and Still Did\nBy the late 1980s\, Selena was the biggest Tejano star in the country. She won the Grammy for Best Mexican-American Album in 1994 for Live! — the first Tejano artist to win in that category. She was recording her first English-language album when she was murdered on March 31\, 1995\, in Corpus Christi\, at twenty-three. The album Dreaming of You was released posthumously and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 — the first album by a Latin artist to do so. Lake Jackson put up a mural. Corpus Christi put up a statue. Texas never forgot. The Texas State Historical Association tells the full story.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/selena-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260409
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260410
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SUMMARY:Mance Lipscomb: Navasota's Steady Hand
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Mance Lipscomb. He would be 131 today. \nBeau 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. He called himself a “songster” rather than a blues musician\, because his repertoire ran from field hollers to spirituals to ragtime to whatever the crowd needed. He was not discovered. He was simply found — in 1960\, by a musician and folklorist named Mack McCormick. \nFamous at Sixty-Five\nMcCormick brought Lipscomb to the 1961 Berkeley Folk Festival. The audience had never heard anything quite like him — fingerpicking guitar with a conversational grace that made virtuosity look effortless. He began recording for Arhoolie Records and toured the college folk circuit into his seventies. His song “Ella Speed” had been in the Texas tradition for generations. He made it live again for a new audience. Lipscomb died January 30\, 1976\, in Navasota\, having never left Grimes County for long. The farm held him. The music kept traveling. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/mance-lipscomb-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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