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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
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260913
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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
DTSTAMP:20260710T163220Z
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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.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/blind-lemon-jefferson-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260929
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260930
DTSTAMP:20260717T191804Z
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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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CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260929
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260930
DTSTAMP:20260717T191805Z
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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.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/stevie-ray-vaughan-birthday/
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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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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.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261102
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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.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261105
DTSTAMP: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.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261107
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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.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261107
DTSTAMP: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.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261111
DTSTAMP:20260717T193247Z
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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.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261124
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261125
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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.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261217
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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
LAST-MODIFIED:20260717T193252Z
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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
CREATED:20260701T145300Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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
CREATED:20260701T143914Z
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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
CREATED:20260701T143917Z
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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.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/tex-ritter-birthday/
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.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/janis-joplin-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270122
DTSTAMP:20260717T191912Z
CREATED:20260701T143923Z
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SUMMARY:Mac Davis: Lubbock's Songwriter for the Stars
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Mac Davis. He would be 85 today. \nScott Davis was born in Lubbock\, Texas on January 21\, 1942\, in the same flat\, sun-hammered West Texas world that produced Buddy Holly and Waylon Jennings. Unlike them\, Davis didn’t stay in music’s underground. He went straight for the mainstream and hit it with surgical precision. He moved to Atlanta\, then Los Angeles\, working as a promotion man for Vee-Jay Records before anyone heard his songs. Then Elvis did. \nWriting for the King\nElvis Presley recorded Davis’s “A Little Less Conversation” in 1968. Then “In the Ghetto” — a song about Chicago poverty that a Lubbock boy wrote — hit No. 3 on the pop charts in 1969. Then “Memories.” Davis became a television star with The Mac Davis Show through the 1970s and returned to country radio with his own hits for years after. He died on September 29\, 2020. Explore his place items on Texas Music Map and more at the Texas State Historical Association.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/mac-davis-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270123
DTSTAMP:20260717T193253Z
CREATED:20260701T143926Z
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SUMMARY:Angela Strehli: Lubbock's Blues Architect
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Angela Strehli. She is 81 today. \nAngela Strehli was born in Lubbock\, Texas on January 22\, 1945. She could have stayed in West Texas. Instead\, she moved to Austin in the late 1960s and helped build something from the ground up. Strehli co-founded Antone’s Records and became a central figure in the Austin blues revival of the 1970s and 1980s. She understood something the record labels hadn’t figured out yet: Austin had a blues scene worth taking seriously. \nThe Woman Behind the Scene\nStrehli sang with a deep\, authoritative voice that had absorbed Chicago\, Delta\, and Texas blues without sounding like any one of them. She recorded Soul Shake in 1987 and toured alongside Stevie Ray Vaughan\, Lou Ann Barton\, and Jimmie Vaughan. Her influence on the Austin sound runs deeper than most people realize. Antone’s wouldn’t have been Antone’s without her. Explore her place items on Texas Music Map.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/angela-strehli-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270210
DTSTAMP:20260717T191916Z
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SUMMARY:Ernest Tubb: Texas Troubadour from Crisp
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Ernest Tubb. He would be 113 today. \nCrisp\, Texas sits in Ellis County\, about thirty miles south of Dallas. It barely registers on a map. But Ernest Dale Tubb was born there on February 9\, 1914\, and that matters. He grew up listening to Jimmie Rodgers records and was devoted to the idea that country music could carry real working-class weight. When Rodgers died in 1933\, Tubb wrote his widow Carrie for advice. She sent him one of Jimmie’s guitars. He played it until it wore out. \nThe Sound That Built Honky-Tonk\nTubb joined Decca Records in 1940. “Walking the Floor Over You” hit big in 1941. It was a new sound — amplified electric guitar running under a plain-spoken story about heartbreak. That was the beginning of honky-tonk music as a genre. He joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1943 and held his spot for four decades. He opened his famous record store on Broadway in Nashville in 1947 — the Ernest Tubb Record Shop — and broadcast live from it every Saturday night. He died September 6\, 1984. But the Texas Troubadour’s sound is still in every country bar playing tonight. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/ernest-tubb-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270210
DTSTAMP:20260717T191922Z
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SUMMARY:Joe Ely: Amarillo's Restless Heart
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Joe Ely. He is 80 today. \nJoe Ely was born in Amarillo\, Texas on February 9\, 1947. The Panhandle stamped itself on him permanently — the flat horizons\, the wind\, the sense that you’re always standing on the edge of something too big to name. He moved to Lubbock as a teenager and fell in with a group that would come to be called the Lubbock Mafia: Butch Hancock\, Jimmie Dale Gilmore\, Terry Allen. They were writing songs nobody in Nashville would touch yet. \nThe Wildest of the West Texas Poets\nEly released his first album on MCA in 1977. It was raw\, smart\, and unlike anything country radio was playing. The Clash heard it and invited him to tour England with them in 1980. That partnership made headlines — a West Texas cowboy and the kings of British punk sharing a stage. It made perfect sense to anyone who actually listened. Ely’s music was always built on the same tension: restlessness against rootedness\, the road against the homeland. Find his place items on Texas Music Map.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/joe-ely-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270215
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270216
DTSTAMP:20260717T193254Z
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SUMMARY:Gary Clark Jr.: Austin's Guitar Truth
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Gary Clark Jr. He is 43 today. \nGary Clark Jr. was born in Austin\, Texas on February 15\, 1984. He grew up playing guitar around East Austin\, getting noticed at Antone’s while still in his teens. Clifford Antone himself started booking Clark when he was seventeen. That kind of early mentorship in Austin’s blues tradition gave Clark a foundation nobody could take away — and a sense of responsibility to carry it forward. \nThe Next Link in the Chain\nClark signed with Warner Bros. in 2011. His debut album Blak and Blu came out in 2012 and earned him two Grammy Awards. But the studio records barely capture what Clark does live — he plays guitar with the abandon of someone who knows exactly where the music came from and exactly where he wants to take it. He’s performed with the Rolling Stones and the Foo Fighters. He’s played the White House. And he still shows up at Austin clubs on a Tuesday night when he feels like it. Find his place items on Texas Music Map.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/gary-clark-jr-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270218
DTSTAMP:20260717T193257Z
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SUMMARY:Lou Ann Barton: Fort Worth's Soul Siren
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Lou Ann Barton. She is 73 today. \nLou Ann Barton was born in Fort Worth\, Texas on February 17\, 1954. She moved to Austin in her early twenties and immediately became one of the most in-demand voices on the Sixth Street blues circuit. Her voice could do things other singers couldn’t explain — it had Fort Worth grit and Houston soul at the same time\, wrapped around a delivery so confident it left no room for doubt. \nThe Voice Antone’s Was Built For\nBarton was an original member of the Fabulous Thunderbirds before going solo. She recorded Old Enough in 1982\, produced by Jerry Wexler and Glenn Frey — two people who knew exactly what a great voice could do. The album didn’t produce chart hits. But it produced something more durable: a reputation among musicians as one of the real things. She shared stages with Stevie Ray Vaughan\, Angela Strehli\, and Jimmie Vaughan during the years when Austin blues was still building its legend. Find her place items on Texas Music Map.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/lou-ann-barton-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270223
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270224
DTSTAMP:20260717T191937Z
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SUMMARY:Johnny Winter: Beaumont's White Lightning
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Johnny Winter. He would be 83 today. \nBeaumont\, Texas sits in the Golden Triangle — the industrial coastal zone where the refineries run day and night and blues music grew up in the roadhouses between the shift changes. John Dawson Winter III was born there on February 23\, 1944. He started playing guitar at eleven. By his teens\, he and his brother Edgar were already working the Southeast Texas club circuit. The blues came naturally. Beaumont had always known how to make it. \nThe Slide That Stopped New York Cold\nA 1968 story in Rolling Stone described Winter as an albino blues guitarist from Texas nobody had heard yet. Within weeks\, every record label in New York was calling. He signed with Columbia for a reported $600\,000 — a staggering advance for 1969. His debut album hit the top twenty. Then he revived Muddy Waters’s career by producing four albums for him in the 1970s\, earning Waters three Grammy Awards. Winter died on July 16\, 2014\, in Zurich. But his slide guitar still burns through the room when you put on a record. Learn more on Wikipedia.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/johnny-winter-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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