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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: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:20260821
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260822
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SUMMARY:Kenny Rogers: Houston's Country Gambler
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Kenny Rogers. He would be 88 today. \nKenneth Donald Rogers was born in Houston\, Texas on August 21\, 1938\, in the Third Ward. His family was large and poor. He grew up singing in school choirs and started playing local clubs as a teenager. He joined the New Christy Minstrels in the early 1960s\, then formed the First Edition in 1967 — a psychedelic-folk group that had an unlikely hit with “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)” in 1968. Kenny Rogers was already thirty and still figuring out where his career was going. \nThe Gambler’s Run\n“The Gambler” came out in 1978 and became one of the most recognizable songs in American music history. “Lucille” hit No. 1 in 1977. “Lady” in 1980. His duet with Dolly Parton\, “Islands in the Stream\,” in 1983 sold over two million copies. Rogers understood something about storytelling that most country singers missed — the song had to be a movie in three minutes. His Kenny Rogers Roasters chicken restaurant chain made him a household name to people who’d never bought a record. He died March 20\, 2020\, in Sandy Springs\, Georgia. The Houston Third Ward never forgot to dream big. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260830
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260831
DTSTAMP:20260710T193419Z
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SUMMARY:Kenny Dorham Birthday
DESCRIPTION:Jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham was born McKinley Howard Dorham on August 30\, 1924\, in Fairfield\, Texas. He grew up in Austin\, where band director B. L. Joyce set him on trumpet at Anderson High School. He went on to replace Miles Davis in the Charlie Parker Quintet\, co-found the Jazz Messengers with Art Blakey and Horace Silver\, replace Clifford Brown in the Max Roach Quintet\, and write “Blue Bossa” — one of the most recorded jazz standards of the twentieth century. \n\n\n\nDorham never received the commercial recognition his peers did\, but he is remembered as one of the most complete bebop trumpeters of his era — a player whose touch\, harmonic sense\, and compositional mind set him apart. He died December 5\, 1972\, in New York City. Austin named him an inaugural inductee of the Austin Music Memorial in 2008.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/kenny-dorham-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260903
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260904
DTSTAMP:20260717T191738Z
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SUMMARY:Freddie King: Gilmer's Texas Cannonball
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Freddie King. He would be 92 today. \nIf you’ve spent any time in a Texas blues club\, you’ve heard Freddie King — whether you knew it or not. Fred Christian King was born in Gilmer\, Texas on September 3\, 1934\, in Upshur County\, the same pine country that produced Don Henley. He moved to Chicago at sixteen\, but the East Texas blues ran through his playing like a river that couldn’t be dammed. He was the most physically commanding guitarist of his era — six feet two\, broad as a barn door\, playing a Les Paul like it was fighting back. \nThe Record That Made the Blues Matter Again\n“Hide Away” peaked at No. 29 on the Billboard singles chart in 1961 and became one of the defining instrumentals in blues history. British guitarists treated it like a license exam — Clapton played it\, Peter Green played it\, Mick Taylor played it. Eric Clapton has said that seeing King perform in London in 1966 was a turning point in his life as a guitarist. King’s 1966 tour of England was sold out every night. He died December 28\, 1976\, in Dallas — too young at 42\, still ascending. Find his related listings and learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260904
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260905
DTSTAMP:20260717T193245Z
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SUMMARY:Beyoncé: Houston's Queen
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Beyoncé. She is 45 today. \nBeyoncé Giselle Knowles was born in Houston\, Texas on September 4\, 1981. She grew up in the Third Ward and enrolled at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts\, the same school that produced Donald Harrison\, Robert Glasper\, and Jazmine Sullivan. She was in a group called Girl’s Tyme at nine years old. Mathew Knowles\, her father\, managed the group with relentless focus. They became Destiny’s Child. The story that came after is the biggest in American popular music of the last twenty-five years. \nThe Most Decorated Artist in Grammy History\nDestiny’s Child sold sixty million records worldwide. Beyoncé’s solo debut Dangerously in Love in 2003 earned five Grammy Awards. Lemonade in 2016 was a visual album about Black Southern womanhood — specifically\, about the Gulf Coast\, about Houston\, about the inheritance of women who had endured. Renaissance in 2022 was a love letter to Black dance music. Cowboy Carter in 2024 brought country music back to its Black Texas roots. She holds more Grammy wins than any artist in the award’s history. Houston made her\, and she keeps making something out of Houston. Find her place items on Texas Music Map.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260907
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260908
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SUMMARY:Buddy Holly: Lubbock's Everlasting Echo
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Buddy Holly. He would be 90 today. \nCharles Hardin Holley was born in Lubbock\, Texas on September 7\, 1936. The South Plains city was dry and flat and about as far from rock and roll as geography could arrange. But Holly heard Elvis Presley at the Lubbock Fair Grounds in January 1955\, and something snapped into place. He formed his own group\, started recording in Clovis\, New Mexico with Norman Petty\, and within two years had invented something new — pop songs built on guitar riffs\, syncopated rhythms\, and his own hiccupping vocal delivery that nobody had heard before. \nThe Blueprint That Built the British Invasion\n“That’ll Be the Day” hit No. 1 in 1957. “Peggy Sue.” “Oh\, Boy!” “Not Fade Away.” “Everyday.” Each one a lesson in how to build a pop song from almost nothing. The Beatles covered four Holly songs before they were signed to a record label. John Lennon said learning Holly’s songs was how he learned to play guitar. Keith Richards said the same. Holly died February 3\, 1959\, at twenty-two\, in the Iowa cornfield crash that also killed Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. He left behind recordings from a single eighteen-month stretch. They have not stopped echoing. Find his place items on Texas Music Map and learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260912
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SUMMARY:George Jones: Saratoga's Voice of Country
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of George Jones. He would be 95 today. \nGeorge Glenn Jones was born in Saratoga\, Texas on September 12\, 1931 — in Hardin County\, deep in the Big Thicket country of Southeast Texas. His father played guitar and fiddle. George was already singing on the streets of Beaumont for coins at nine years old. He absorbed the region’s musical mix — country\, gospel\, honky-tonk — and began to synthesize it into something so pure that Hank Williams called him the greatest living country singer. Williams was not given to idle compliments. \nFifty Years of the Real Thing\n“Why Baby Why” charted in 1955. “White Lightning” hit No. 1 in 1959. Then the hits accumulated across five decades — “He Stopped Loving Her Today” in 1980 was voted the greatest country song ever recorded in more polls than anyone has bothered to count. Jones’s voice was an instrument of devastating emotional precision. He could make two syllables do the work a lesser singer needed a whole song for. His personal life was chaos — the drinking\, the missed shows that earned him the nickname “No-Show Jones.” He kept recording through all of it. He died April 26\, 2013\, in Nashville. Texas produced many great singers. George Jones was the greatest. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260912
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SUMMARY:George Jones: Saratoga's Voice of Country
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of George Jones. He would be 95 today. \nGeorge Glenn Jones was born in Saratoga\, Texas on September 12\, 1931 — in Hardin County\, deep in the Big Thicket country of Southeast Texas. His father played guitar and fiddle. George was already singing on the streets of Beaumont for coins at nine years old. He absorbed the region’s musical mix — country\, gospel\, honky-tonk — and synthesized it into something so pure that Hank Williams called him the greatest living country singer. Williams was not given to idle compliments. \nFifty Years of the Real Thing\n“Why Baby Why” charted in 1955. “White Lightning” hit No. 1 in 1959. Then the hits accumulated across five decades. “He Stopped Loving Her Today” in 1980 gets voted the greatest country song ever recorded in more polls than anyone has counted. Jones’s voice was an instrument of devastating emotional precision. He could make two syllables do what a lesser singer needed a whole song for. His personal life was chaos — the drinking\, the missed shows that earned him “No-Show Jones.” He kept recording through all of it. He died April 26\, 2013\, in Nashville. Texas produced many great singers. George Jones was the greatest. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
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CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260925
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SUMMARY:Blind Lemon Jefferson: Father of Texas Blues
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Blind Lemon Jefferson. He would be 133 today. \n\n\n\nLemon Henry Jefferson was born near Coutchman\, Texas\, on Sept. 24\, 1893. He was the youngest of seven children in an African American sharecropper family in Freestone County. He was born blind. He learned guitar as a teenager and began performing at church picnics and Saturday-night parties across the county. Then he found the street corners of East Texas. Then he found Deep Ellum in Dallas — and the corner of Elm Street and Central Tracks became his stage. \n\n\n\nThe Father of Texas Blues\n\n\n\nJefferson recorded 79 singles for Paramount Records between 1925 and 1929. He was the first commercially successful solo male blues artist in American history. “Matchbox Blues” and “Black Snake Moan” shaped a generation. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named “Matchbox Blues” one of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. He taught T-Bone Walker the guitar. He inspired B.B. King\, Lightnin’ Hopkins\, and Bob Dylan. He died in Chicago on Dec. 19\, 1929\, at 36. His grave in Wortham carries the inscription from his own song: “See that my grave is kept clean.” \nLearn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
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CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260929
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260930
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SUMMARY:Gene Autry: Tioga's Singing Cowboy
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Gene Autry. He would be 119 today. \nOrvon Grover Autry was born near Tioga\, Texas on September 29\, 1907\, in Grayson County\, north of Dallas near the Red River. He grew up on a ranch and learned guitar from his mother and harmonica from a traveling musician. He worked as a telegraph operator for the Frisco railroad in Oklahoma\, where Will Rogers heard him singing one night and encouraged him to try the big time. Autry took the advice. \nThe Cowboys Who Sang\nAutry became the first great singing cowboy of Hollywood Westerns\, making over 90 films between 1934 and 1953. He recorded “Back in the Saddle Again” — his theme song — in 1939. He wrote and recorded “Here Comes Santa Claus” in 1947 and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” in 1949\, making him one of the most commercially successful Christmas recording artists in history. He parlayed his entertainment career into a business empire that included the California Angels baseball team. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1969. He died October 2\, 1998. Tioga claims him. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260929
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260930
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SUMMARY:Gene Autry: Tioga's Singing Cowboy
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Gene Autry. He would be 119 today. \nOrvon Grover Autry was born near Tioga\, Texas on September 29\, 1907\, in Grayson County north of Dallas near the Red River. He grew up on a ranch and learned guitar from his mother. He worked as a telegraph operator for the Frisco railroad in Oklahoma\, where Will Rogers heard him singing one night and encouraged him to try the big time. Autry took the advice and never looked back. \nThe Cowboy Who Never Rode Off\nAutry became the first great singing cowboy of Hollywood Westerns\, making over 90 films between 1934 and 1953. He recorded “Back in the Saddle Again” — his theme song — in 1939. He wrote and recorded “Here Comes Santa Claus” in 1947 and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” in 1949\, making him one of the most commercially successful Christmas recording artists in history. He parlayed his entertainment career into a business empire that eventually included the California Angels baseball team. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1969. He died October 2\, 1998. Tioga claims him with good reason. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261003
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261004
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SUMMARY:Stevie Ray Vaughan: Dallas Guitar God
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Stevie Ray Vaughan. He would be 72 today. \nStephen Ray Vaughan was born in Dallas\, Texas on October 3\, 1954. He grew up in Oak Cliff on the south side of Dallas\, where his older brother Jimmie was already playing guitar in the clubs. Stevie started playing at seven and never stopped improving. By his mid-teens he was sitting in on sessions at Crossroads\, a North Austin club. He moved to Austin at seventeen\, played every bar on Sixth Street\, and built the kind of reputation that reached beyond state lines through word of mouth alone. \nThe Night at Montreux That Changed Everything\nDavid Bowie brought Vaughan to the 1982 Montreux Jazz Festival\, where a hostile audience quieted down the moment Stevie Ray started playing. Bowie hired him for the Let’s Dance album. Then Vaughan formed Double Trouble and signed with Epic Records for Texas Flood in 1983 — an album that resurrected blues guitar as a commercial force. The technique was astonishing; the feeling was more so. He played with a .013 string gauge tuned down a half-step\, hitting notes with a weight that left his competitors wondering what they were missing. He died August 27\, 1990\, in a helicopter crash at Alpine Valley\, Wisconsin. He was thirty-five. Find his brother Jimmie’s items on Texas Music Map and learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261003
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261004
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SUMMARY:Stevie Ray Vaughan: Dallas Guitar God
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Stevie Ray Vaughan. He would be 72 today. \nStephen Ray Vaughan was born in Dallas\, Texas on October 3\, 1954. He grew up in Oak Cliff on the south side of Dallas\, where his older brother Jimmie was already playing guitar in the clubs. Stevie started playing at seven and never stopped improving. By his mid-teens he was sitting in at North Austin clubs. He moved to Austin at seventeen\, played every bar on Sixth Street\, and built a reputation that spread beyond Texas through word of mouth alone. \nThe Night at Montreux That Changed Everything\nDavid Bowie brought Vaughan to the 1982 Montreux Jazz Festival. A hostile audience quieted down the moment Stevie Ray started playing. Bowie hired him for the Let’s Dance album. Then Vaughan formed Double Trouble and released Texas Flood on Epic Records in 1983 — an album that resurrected blues guitar as a commercial force. He played with .013 strings tuned down a half-step\, hitting notes with a weight that left other guitarists wondering what they were missing. He died August 27\, 1990\, in a helicopter crash at Alpine Valley\, Wisconsin\, at thirty-five. Find brother Jimmie’s items on Texas Music Map and learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
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CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261010
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261011
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SUMMARY:Tanya Tucker: Seminole's Child Star
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Tanya Tucker. She is 68 today. \nTanya Denise Tucker was born in Seminole\, Texas on October 10\, 1958. Seminole sits in Gaines County\, in the flat far West Texas oil-and-farming country near the New Mexico border. Her father Beau Tucker moved the family constantly\, chasing opportunity\, and Tanya was performing in local talent shows across the Southwest by the time she was nine. Beau sent a demo tape to producer Billy Sherrill in Nashville. Sherrill listened. He signed a thirteen-year-old girl from Seminole. \nDelta Dawn at Thirteen\n“Delta Dawn” hit No. 6 on the country charts in 1972. Tanya Tucker was thirteen years old. The song was supposed to be a sad\, heavy adult ballad. She sang it that way without trying\, her voice already full of something that couldn’t be learned. “What’s Your Mama’s Name” hit No. 1 in 1973. “Would You Lay with Me (in a Field of Stone)” went to No. 1 in 1974. She has collected No. 1 singles across five decades. She won the CMA Award for Female Vocalist of the Year in 2019 — when she was sixty years old. West Texas takes care of its own. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261010
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261011
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SUMMARY:Tanya Tucker: Seminole's Child Star
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Tanya Tucker. She is 68 today. \nTanya Denise Tucker was born in Seminole\, Texas on October 10\, 1958. Seminole sits in Gaines County\, flat far-West Texas oil country near the New Mexico border. Her father Beau Tucker moved the family constantly. Tanya was performing in local talent shows across the Southwest by the time she was nine. Beau sent a demo tape to producer Billy Sherrill in Nashville. Sherrill listened. He signed a thirteen-year-old girl from Seminole. \nDelta Dawn at Thirteen\n“Delta Dawn” hit No. 6 on the country charts in 1972. Tanya Tucker was thirteen years old. The song was supposed to be a sad\, heavy adult ballad. She sang it that way without trying — her voice already full of something that couldn’t be taught. “What’s Your Mama’s Name” hit No. 1 in 1973. “Would You Lay with Me (in a Field of Stone)” went to No. 1 in 1974. She has collected No. 1 singles across five decades. She won the CMA Award for Female Vocalist of the Year in 2019 — when she was sixty years old. West Texas takes care of its own. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
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CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261102
DTSTAMP:20260717T191815Z
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SUMMARY:Sippie Wallace: Houston's Blues Mother
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Sippie Wallace. She would be 128 today. \nBeulah 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\, then Chicago\, where she began recording for OKeh Records in 1923. She billed herself as Sippie Wallace — a name that stuck. Her voice had the directness of someone who had seen enough to speak plainly about all of it. \nThe Mentor Bonnie Raitt Never Forgot\nWallace recorded blues standards alongside Louis Armstrong and Clarence Williams in the 1920s. Then she spent decades away from recording\, working in the church. She returned to performing in the 1960s folk revival\, making new records and touring college campuses. Bonnie Raitt heard her and was transformed. Raitt has credited Wallace as one of her most important influences — and the two recorded together. Wallace died November 1\, 1986\, in Detroit\, on her 88th birthday. The Houston church singer had outlasted everyone. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/sippie-wallace-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261102
DTSTAMP:20260717T193249Z
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SUMMARY:Lyle Lovett: Klein's Restless Genius
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Lyle Lovett. He is 69 today. \nLyle 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 started writing songs that refused to behave like any country song anyone had heard. They were funny and devastating at the same time. They were jazz and country and gospel and Western swing all at once. Nashville didn’t know what to do with him. He signed there anyway. \nThe Category He Had to Invent\nLovett’s debut album came out on MCA Records in 1986 and established him immediately as something genuinely original. “Cowboy Man” and “God Will” hit country radio. Then Pontiac in 1988 went further — a record that used a jazz big band and a gospel choir to tell Texas stories nobody had dared to tell quite that way. He won four Grammy Awards. He married Julia Roberts in 1993 — a tabloid story that never quite captured who Lovett actually was. He kept touring\, kept recording\, kept playing with his Large Band. Klein’s land is still in the family. Learn more on Wikipedia.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/lyle-lovett-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261105
DTSTAMP:20260717T193251Z
CREATED:20260701T145150Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260717T193251Z
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SUMMARY:Delbert McClinton: Lubbock's Soulful Survivor
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Delbert McClinton. He is 86 today. \nDelbert 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 side. He was backing Black blues musicians at a time when that wasn’t always safe for a white kid from Fort Worth. He played the harmonica parts behind Bruce Channel on “Hey! Baby” in 1962. He played that part so well that John Lennon asked him how he did it during a tour stop in England. \nThe Lesson He Gave John Lennon\nMcClinton showed Lennon his harmonica technique. Lennon went home and put it to use on “Love Me Do.” McClinton won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album for Nothing Personal in 2001. But awards never quite captured his appeal — which is the appeal of a performer who has been absolutely committed to the music for sixty years without ever chasing what was fashionable. He plays Fort Worth and Austin as faithfully as he plays any stage in the world. Find his place items on Texas Music Map.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/delbert-mcclinton-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261107
DTSTAMP:20260717T191820Z
CREATED:20260701T145155Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260717T191820Z
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SUMMARY:Guy Clark: Monahans' Master Craftsman
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Guy Clark. He would be 85 today. \nGuy 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 in the South Texas town of Rockport\, where a Spanish guitar player named Augustin Limón taught him to play. He moved to Houston\, then to Los Angeles\, then to Nashville — and Nashville is where he built his legend. \nSongs Built Like Furniture\nClark approached songwriting like a master carpenter — every joint fitted\, nothing wasted. “Desperados Waiting for a Train” in 1975 was his breakthrough. “L.A. Freeway” became a Texas standard. “Heartbroke” hit No. 1 for Ricky Skaggs in 1982. Clark never had a No. 1 single himself. He had something rarer: the respect of every serious songwriter in Nashville. Steve Earle\, Rodney Crowell\, and Townes Van Zandt were his close friends and considered him a peer. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2016\, the same year he died\, on May 17\, 2016\, in Nashville. The wood is still holding. Find his place items on Texas Music Map.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/guy-clark-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261107
DTSTAMP:20260717T191835Z
CREATED:20260701T145157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260717T191835Z
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SUMMARY:Doug Sahm: San Antonio's One-Man Genre
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Doug Sahm. He would be 85 today. \nDouglas 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 access to every music it contained: Western Swing\, Tex-Mex\, blues\, rock and roll\, country\, and the Mexican ranchera that drifted over from the West Side. Sahm absorbed it all and synthesized nothing out — he just kept playing all of it\, simultaneously\, for the rest of his life. \nThe Austin Sound Before Austin Had a Sound\n“She’s About a Mover” with the Sir Douglas Quintet hit No. 13 nationally in 1965\, sounding like British Invasion rock made by someone who had grown up at a San Antonio conjunto dance. After years in San Francisco and Canada\, Sahm moved back to Austin and helped create the conditions for what became the Outlaw Country scene. He formed the Texas Tornados with Flaco Jiménez\, Freddy Fender\, and Augie Meyers — a supergroup that won a Grammy in 1991. He died November 18\, 1999\, in Taos\, New Mexico. Nobody else played everything he played the way he played it. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/doug-sahm-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261111
DTSTAMP:20260717T193247Z
CREATED:20260701T145200Z
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SUMMARY:Miranda Lambert: Longview's Country Voice
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Miranda Lambert. She is 43 today. \nMiranda 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 up knowing the difference between what people said and what was actually happening. She put that knowledge in her songs from the beginning. She competed on Nashville Star in 2003 and finished third. Epic Records signed her anyway. \nCountry Songs With Teeth\n“Kerosene” — her debut album opener — was a statement of intent: country music could be angry\, specifically\, rightfully angry. Lambert won the CMA Award for Female Vocalist of the Year seven consecutive times from 2010 to 2016. She won Album of the Year for Revolution in 2009 and again for Platinum in 2014. She formed the Pistol Annies with Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley — a trio that makes country music sound like it was invented by women\, which in many ways it was. She never forgot Longview. East Texas never forgot her. Find her place items on Texas Music Map.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/miranda-lambert-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261124
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261125
DTSTAMP:20260717T191838Z
CREATED:20260701T145247Z
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SUMMARY:Scott Joplin: Texarkana's Ragtime King
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Scott Joplin. He would be 158 today. \nScott 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 named Julius Weiss recognized something unusual in the boy and gave him free piano lessons. That investment changed American music. Joplin absorbed European classical forms and the syncopated rhythms he heard in the Black community\, and began to build something from both. \nThe King of Ragtime\n“Maple Leaf Rag\,” published by John Stark in Sedalia\, Missouri in 1899\, was the first piece of sheet music to sell one million copies. It made Joplin famous and earned him a royalty for life. He followed it with dozens more rags — “The Entertainer\,” “Elite Syncopations\,” “The Cascades” — each one a small\, perfect engine of syncopated rhythm and countermelody. Joplin spent his later years on Treemonisha\, a full-length opera\, which he could not get produced or funded in his lifetime. He died April 1\, 1917\, in New York\, broke and ill. In 1976\, he was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Music. Texarkana gave the world its ragtime king. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/scott-joplin-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261217
DTSTAMP:20260717T193248Z
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SUMMARY:Billy Gibbons: Houston's Riff Master
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Billy Gibbons. He is 77 today. \nWilliam Frederick Gibbons was born in Houston\, Texas on December 16\, 1949. His father was a professional musician and orchestra conductor. Billy grew up in a house full of music and discovered the blues through Muddy Waters and B.B. King records as a teenager. He formed a series of bands in Houston before co-founding ZZ Top in 1969 with bassist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard. All three were born in Texas. The band has never changed its lineup. That alone is a kind of miracle in rock and roll. \nThe Tone That Defined Texas Rock\n“La Grange” in 1973 built its entire architecture on a John Lee Hooker boogie and Gibbons’s Les Paul tone — a specific\, fat\, slightly distorted sound that became one of the most imitated sounds in rock history. ZZ Top had their commercial peak with Eliminator in 1983\, producing “Sharp Dressed Man\,” “Legs\,” and “Gimme All Your Lovin'” simultaneously. Gibbons is also an obsessive car customizer — the “Eliminator” coupe in the videos was his. He is a serious art collector. He has never stopped playing\, never stopped exploring the blues beneath the stadium rock. Houston gave him the start. He gave Houston the beard. Learn more on Wikipedia.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/billy-gibbons-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261219
DTSTAMP:20260717T191843Z
CREATED:20260701T145254Z
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SUMMARY:Bobby Keys: Slaton's Rolling Stone
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Bobby Keys. He would be 83 today. \nBobby Keys was born in Slaton\, Texas on December 18\, 1943 — a small railroad and cotton town on the South Plains\, just southeast of Lubbock. He started playing saxophone as a teenager and was already touring with Buddy Holly’s backing musicians by sixteen. He shared a birthday with Keith Richards — a coincidence that became one of the more unlikely relationships in rock history. Keys met the Rolling Stones while both were on tour in 1965. He started sitting in. Mick Jagger noticed the saxophone. \nThe Sound of Every Great Stones Record\n“Brown Sugar” opens with Bobby Keys’s baritone saxophone. “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” features his extended solo. “Rip This Joint\,” “Happy\,” “Tumbling Dice” — Keys is the texture underneath the most celebrated run of Rolling Stones albums\, from Sticky Fingers through Exile on Main St. in 1972. He was a full touring member of the Stones for five decades. He also recorded and toured with John Lennon\, Harry Nilsson\, and dozens of others. He died December 2\, 2014\, in Franklin\, Tennessee. Slaton\, Texas produced one of rock and roll’s essential sidemen. Find his place items on Texas Music Map.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/bobby-keys-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261228
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261229
DTSTAMP:20260717T193252Z
CREATED:20260701T145257Z
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SUMMARY:Edgar Winter: Beaumont's Multi-Instrument Maverick
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Edgar Winter. He is 80 today. \nEdgar Winter was born in Beaumont\, Texas on December 28\, 1946 — younger brother of Johnny Winter\, also born in Beaumont. The Winter brothers were the most musically gifted siblings the Texas Gulf Coast ever produced. Edgar played keyboards\, saxophone\, guitar\, and drums with professional fluency on all of them. He moved to New York and formed the Edgar Winter Group in 1972. The band played a ferocious mix of rock\, blues\, jazz\, and funk that didn’t quite fit any single radio format and didn’t care. \nFrankenstein’s Monster Hit\n“Frankenstein” hit No. 1 in 1973 and became one of the defining rock instrumentals of the era. Winter played a synthesizer strapped around his neck and ran it through the same rig as his saxophone — nobody had quite done that before. “Free Ride” became a radio staple the same year. His 1975 album Jasmine Nightdreams showed how far beyond the hits his musical interests ran. He has worked in film scoring\, classical composition\, and gospel throughout his career. Beaumont made two of Texas rock’s most important figures and barely got credit for either. Learn more on Wikipedia.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/edgar-winter-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261230
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261231
DTSTAMP:20260717T191846Z
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SUMMARY:Michael Nesmith: Houston's Monkee
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Michael Nesmith. He would be 84 today. \nRobert Michael Nesmith was born in Houston\, Texas on December 30\, 1942. His mother Bette Nesmith Graham invented Liquid Paper correction fluid and became a millionaire. Michael grew up in Dallas and San Antonio\, wrote his first songs as a teenager\, and moved to Los Angeles in his early twenties. He auditioned for a new television show in 1965 called The Monkees. He wore a wool hat. He got the part. \nThe Monkee Who Built Country Rock\nNesmith was the serious musician in a group designed as a pop product. He fought for the Monkees’ right to play their own instruments and write their own songs. He left the group in 1970 and formed the First National Band\, recording three albums of country rock before critics had a name for that genre. He is widely credited as a founding influence on what became the country rock movement — Don Henley\, Glenn Frey\, and the Eagles came after. He also produced the first music video to air on MTV at its launch in 1981\, and co-founded the music video format. He died December 10\, 2021. Houston made a pioneer who never got quite enough credit. Learn more on Wikipedia.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/michael-nesmith-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270102
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270103
DTSTAMP:20260717T191850Z
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SUMMARY:Roger Miller: Fort Worth's King of the Road
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Roger Miller. He would be 91 today. \nFort Worth handed Roger Miller his birth certificate on January 2\, 1936\, and then he was gone. His father died early. The family split. He was raised by an uncle in Erick\, Oklahoma — a Panhandle town with more tumbleweeds than ambitions. But the wit was already forming. Miller had a peculiar genius: he could make a pun ache like a bruise. He arrived in Nashville in the 1950s and spent years writing for others before anyone gave him a shot of his own. \nEleven Grammys in Two Years\nThen came 1964 and 1965. Miller won eleven Grammy Awards across those two years — still a country record. “King of the Road” hit No. 1 in 1965 and crossed every genre line in sight. “Dang Me\,” “Chug-A-Lug\,” “Engine Engine #9” — each one a different calibration of American funny. But “Husbands and Wives” showed he could lay you flat when he wanted to. He later wrote the Broadway musical Big River\, which won seven Tony Awards in 1985. He died October 25\, 1992. The wit never wore out before he did. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/roger-miller-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270113
DTSTAMP:20260717T191904Z
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SUMMARY:Tex Ritter: Murvaul's First Singing Cowboy
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Tex Ritter. He would be 122 today. \nWoodward Maurice Ritter came out of Murvaul — a Deep East Texas hamlet in Panola County — on January 12\, 1905. He studied law at the University of Texas and sang cowboy songs on the side. The songs won. He moved to New York\, then Hollywood\, and became one of the first great singing cowboys of the silver screen. Between 1936 and 1945\, Ritter made over 70 Western films. He was genuine Texas in a genre full of pretenders from New Jersey. \nThe Voice That Opened High Noon\nHis voice opens one of the greatest Westerns ever made. “Do Not Forsake Me” played over the credits of High Noon in 1952 and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Ritter joined the Grand Ole Opry and recorded for Capitol Records for decades. His son John Ritter became one of television’s most beloved actors. Tex died on January 2\, 1974 — his son’s first day of the new year. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
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CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270120
DTSTAMP:20260717T191907Z
CREATED:20260701T143920Z
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SUMMARY:Janis Joplin: Port Arthur Gave the World a Voice
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Janis Joplin. She would be 84 today. \nPort Arthur is a refinery town on the Texas Gulf Coast — the kind of place that smells like industry and feels like the edge of something. Janis Lyn Joplin was born there on January 19\, 1943. She was odd from the start: smart\, loud\, interested in the blues at a time when Port Arthur girls were supposed to be interested in something else entirely. She left for Austin\, then San Francisco\, then the world. And the world wasn’t ready. \nThe Rawest Voice in Rock and Roll\nWith Big Brother and the Holding Company at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival\, Joplin stopped a generation cold. Her version of “Piece of My Heart” remains one of the great rock and roll performances. “Me and Bobby McGee\,” recorded days before her death\, hit No. 1 after she was gone. She died on October 4\, 1970\, at 27. Port Arthur eventually put up a statue. It took them a while. The Texas State Historical Association tells the fuller story.
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