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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.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261228
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DTSTAMP: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.
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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/
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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
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270119
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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/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270121
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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.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270123
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270218
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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.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270223
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270224
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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.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270306
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270307
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SUMMARY:Bob Wills: The King of Western Swing
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Bob Wills. He would be 122 today. \nJames Robert Wills was born on March 6\, 1905\, on a farm near Kosse in Limestone County\, Texas. His father played fiddle. His grandfather played fiddle. The fiddle was already in the blood. He grew up dancing to it at breakdown dances across Central Texas\, where the music blended whatever was available — cowboy songs\, blues from the cotton fields\, Mexican ranchera drifting up from the south. Wills heard all of it and kept it. \nThe Music Nobody Had a Name For Yet\nBy the 1930s\, Wills had formed the Texas Playboys and was broadcasting on KVOO radio out of Tulsa. Then came “San Antonio Rose” in 1940 — a million-selling record that crossed every genre line. Western Swing\, people called it. It was country and jazz and blues and pop all playing at once\, with a horn section and a full rhythm band behind the fiddle. Dance floors across Texas and the Southwest filled every weekend. Wills moved back to Texas after the war and kept recording until a stroke stopped him in 1973. He died May 13\, 1975. The Texas Playboys played on. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
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CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270307
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270308
DTSTAMP:20260717T191945Z
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SUMMARY:Townes Van Zandt: Fort Worth's Lonesome Poet
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Townes Van Zandt. He would be 83 today. \nJohn Townes Van Zandt was born in Fort Worth\, Texas on March 7\, 1944\, into a family that had given the city its name — the Van Zandts were Texas founders. He grew up wealthy and restless\, studying law briefly\, then falling into music with the seriousness of someone who knew he’d never do anything else. He settled in Houston in the early 1960s and started playing the folk circuit. His songs arrived fully formed\, as if they’d been there all along waiting to be uncovered. \nThe Songwriter Other Songwriters Measure Against\n“Pancho and Lefty” is one of the great American songs. Emmylou Harris recorded it. Then Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard took it to No. 1 in 1983 — the only No. 1 hit of Merle Haggard’s career. “If I Needed You\,” “To Live Is to Fly\,” “Waitin’ Around to Die” — each one a small\, perfect storm. Steve Earle said Van Zandt was “the best songwriter in the whole world and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.” Van Zandt died January 1\, 1997\, in Smyrna\, Tennessee. The songs are still accumulating weight. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270309
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270310
DTSTAMP:20260717T191948Z
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SUMMARY:Ornette Coleman: Fort Worth's Free Spirit
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Ornette Coleman. He would be 97 today. \nRandolph Denard Ornette Coleman was born in Fort Worth\, Texas on March 9\, 1930. Fort Worth’s Southside was a thriving Black neighborhood with its own clubs\, its own music economy\, its own culture. Coleman grew up inside it. He taught himself to play alto saxophone in a fundamentally wrong way — or rather\, a way that was entirely his own. He heard music differently from the start. That difference would eventually change jazz forever. \nThe Record That Broke the Lock\nColeman moved to Los Angeles in the early 1950s\, then to New York\, where he released The Shape of Jazz to Come on Atlantic Records in 1959. It remains one of the most consequential albums in American music history. It discarded the chord changes that had governed jazz improvisation for a generation. Ornette called it “free jazz” — a term he made literal with a 1960 double-quartet album of that exact name. Musicians either heard it as liberation or catastrophe. He kept playing regardless. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2007 for his album Sound Grammar. He died June 11\, 2015\, in New York. Fort Worth gave music its first free spirit. Find his place items on Texas Music Map.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270311
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270312
DTSTAMP:20260717T191953Z
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SUMMARY:Flaco Jiménez: San Antonio's Accordion King
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Flaco Jiménez. He is 88 today. \nLeonardo Jiménez Jr. was born in San Antonio\, Texas on March 11\, 1939. His father\, Don Santiago Jiménez Sr.\, was one of the founding figures of conjunto music. The accordion was already in the family kitchen. Flaco started playing it as a boy and never stopped. San Antonio’s West Side barrio was the center of a musical world most of America hadn’t discovered yet — and Flaco was being raised right in the middle of it. \nThe Accordion That Crossed Every Border\nFlaco mastered the bajo sexto and the accordion together\, pushing conjunto music forward without abandoning what made it essential. His 1979 collaborations with Doug Sahm put his sound in front of a rock and roll audience. Then Ry Cooder brought him into the studio for Chicken Skin Music in 1976. He recorded with the Texas Tornados alongside Freddy Fender\, Augie Meyers\, and Sahm himself — that group won a Grammy in 1991. Flaco won five Grammys of his own across his career. He took the accordion from the barrio to the world stage and back again\, and the music was richer for every mile. Find his place items on Texas Music Map.
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CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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SUMMARY:Lightnin' Hopkins: Centerville's Blues Truth
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Lightnin’ Hopkins. He would be 115 today. \nSam John Hopkins was born in Centerville\, Texas on March 15\, 1912. Leon County is in the heart of Central Texas — rolling piney-woods country that sits between the old plantation belt to the east and the blackland prairie to the west. Hopkins met Blind Lemon Jefferson at a church picnic when he was eight years old. He was already gone then. The blues had its hooks in him and never let go. \nA Conversation\, Not a Performance\nHopkins settled in Houston’s Third Ward and built a reputation on the local club circuit across the 1940s. His recordings for Aladdin Records gave him the name “Lightnin'” — a producer paired him with a pianist billed as “Thunder” Washington. The recordings were spare and honest\, and they traveled. But Hopkins almost disappeared entirely. A researcher found him in Houston in 1959\, virtually unknown outside the neighborhood. The folk revival rediscovered him\, and he recorded prolifically through the 1960s and 1970s — solo guitar\, voice raw and specific as the Texas soil beneath him. He died January 30\, 1982\, in Houston. Learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/lightnin-hopkins-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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SUMMARY:Charley Pride: The Voice That Changed Country Radio
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Charley Pride. He would be 92 today. \nCharley Frank Pride was born on March 18\, 1934\, in Sledge\, Mississippi. But Texas was where he became Charley Pride. He moved to Dallas in the early 1960s after a career in the Negro American League. He was playing semi-pro baseball and singing wherever someone would listen. RCA Records signed him in 1965. They didn’t put his photo on the first singles. Country radio was not yet ready for what Pride was about to do to it. \nTwenty-Nine No. 1 Singles\nWhen listeners finally saw Pride on television\, some radio stations returned the records. Most didn’t. The music was undeniable. “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'” hit No. 1 in 1971 and crossed to the pop charts. Pride became the first Black member of the Grand Ole Opry since DeFord Bailey. He won the CMA Award for Entertainer of the Year in 1971. Then he won it again in 1972. By the end of his career\, he had twenty-nine No. 1 singles. He died December 18\, 2020\, in Dallas — the city that gave him his start. Find his place items on Texas Music Map and learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/charley-pride-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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SUMMARY:Jimmie Vaughan: Dallas Guitar Blueprint
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Jimmie Vaughan. He is 76 today. \nJimmie Vaughan was born in Dallas\, Texas on March 20\, 1951\, and grew up in Oak Cliff on the city’s south side. He was playing guitar in Oak Cliff clubs by his mid-teens\, absorbing T-Bone Walker\, Freddie King\, and the West Side Chicago sound with the concentration of someone who knew exactly what he was after. He moved to Austin at seventeen. The city was about to build something\, and Vaughan was going to help build it. \nThe Foundation of Austin Blues\nVaughan co-founded the Fabulous Thunderbirds in 1974 with singer Kim Wilson. They played Antone’s relentlessly through the late 1970s\, helping establish Sixth Street as a serious blues destination. His brother Stevie Ray Vaughan was watching and learning. Jimmie’s tone — warm\, economical\, never a wasted note — became a local touchstone. The Fabulous Thunderbirds had their biggest commercial moment with “Tuff Enuff” in 1986. But Jimmie’s real influence runs deeper than any single chart position. He is the architect of the Austin blues sound that produced the next generation. Find his place items on Texas Music Map.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/jimmie-vaughan-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270321
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SUMMARY:Marcia Ball: Orange's Piano-Pounding Hurricane
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Marcia Ball. She is 77 today. \nMarcia Ball was born in Orange\, Texas\, on March 20\, 1949. Orange sits right on the Louisiana border\, and Ball grew up hearing both sides of that cultural line — Gulf Coast Texas rhythm and blues mixing with Louisiana swamp blues and zydeco. Her piano style absorbed all of it. She moved to Austin in the early 1970s and joined the blues scene that was just beginning to gather around Antone’s and the Armadillo World Headquarters. \nA Left Hand Like a Rhythm Section\nBall recorded her debut album Circuit Queen in 1978. She has been releasing records ever since\, earning six Grammy nominations along the way. Her live show is what people talk about — the left hand churning out rolling boogies while the voice cuts through whatever is happening in the room. She has collaborated with Irma Thomas and Tracy Nelson on albums dedicated to Gulf Coast music\, and with Angela Strehli and Lou Ann Barton on a celebrated trio album in 1990. She keeps playing\, keeps touring\, and keeps proving that the blues between Texas and Louisiana is its own particular force of nature. Learn more on Wikipedia.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/marcia-ball-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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SUMMARY:Charley Crockett Birthday
DESCRIPTION:Charley Crockett was born on March 24\, 1984\, in San Benito\, Texas — the same Rio Grande Valley town that produced Freddy Fender fifty years before. His mother raised him nearby in Los Fresnos on a tight budget\, but music was everywhere: Tejano from the south\, country from the north\, and whatever she put on. He taught himself guitar at seventeen on a pawn-shop instrument she bought him after losing her job. He went on to become one of the most distinctive independent voices in American country and blues. \n\n\n\nCrockett busked his way through Deep Ellum\, New Orleans\, New York\, Paris\, and rural Morocco before returning to Texas to build his recording career. He calls his sound “Gulf and Western.” By 2022 his albums were charting on the Billboard 200. He won a Grammy for Best Regional Roots Music Album and San Benito proclaimed September 7th Charley Crockett Day. He plays C-Boy’s Heart & Soul in Austin when he wants to feel at home.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/charley-crockett-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270331
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SUMMARY:Norah Jones: Texas-Raised Grammy Legend
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Norah Jones. She is 48 today. \nNorah Jones was born on March 30\, 1979. She grew up in Grapevine\, Texas\, outside Dallas\, where she sang in the school choir and started playing piano seriously in her teens. Texas shaped her musical instincts in ways that still show: the unhurried tempo\, the deep roots in jazz and country at the same time\, the sense that a song doesn’t need to rush anywhere. She studied jazz piano at the University of North Texas before moving to New York. \nEight Grammys on One Night\nHer debut album Come Away with Me came out on Blue Note Records in 2002. Nobody quite knew what to call it — jazz\, country\, pop\, soul. It didn’t matter. It sold eighteen million copies worldwide. At the 2003 Grammy Awards\, Jones won eight Grammys in a single night\, including Album of the Year\, Record of the Year\, and Song of the Year. It was one of the most complete Grammy sweeps in the ceremony’s history. She has continued recording across multiple genres\, always on her own terms. The Texas patience she grew up with never left her. Find her place items on Texas Music Map.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/norah-jones-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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SUMMARY:Lefty Frizzell: Corsicana's Country Architect
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Lefty Frizzell. He would be 99 today. \nWilliam Orville Frizzell was born in Corsicana\, Texas on March 31\, 1928. He grew up in oil-boom towns across Navarro and Upshur counties\, moving with his father’s drilling work. He taught himself to play guitar and sing in the style of Jimmie Rodgers\, then added something Rodgers hadn’t done — he stretched syllables\, bent words\, held a note long past where anyone expected him to land. It was a new way of phrasing country music. Nobody had quite done it before. \nThe Phrasing That Passed Into the DNA\nFrizzell signed with Columbia Records in 1950 and immediately had four singles in the country Top 10 simultaneously — a record that stood for decades. “If You’ve Got the Money I’ve Got the Time” was the breakthrough. But listen to “I Want to Be with You Always” or “I Love You a Thousand Ways” and you’ll hear the phrasing that changed everything. Merle Haggard copied it note for note as a teenager. Willie Nelson absorbed it. Keith Whitley studied it obsessively. Frizzell died July 19\, 1975\, in Nashville. But every syllable he bent is still bending somewhere. Find his place items on Texas Music Map and learn more at the Texas State Historical Association.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/lefty-frizzell-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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SUMMARY:Ian McLagan Birthday
DESCRIPTION:Ian McLagan\, keyboardist for the Small Faces and Faces and a 20-year Austin/Manor resident\, was born May 12\, 1945 in Hounslow\, England. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Small Faces in 2012 and died in Austin on December 3\, 2014.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/ian-mclagan-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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SUMMARY:Post Malone Birthday
DESCRIPTION:Post Malone\, born Austin Richard Post on July 4\, 1995 in Syracuse\, New York\, moved to Grapevine\, Texas at age 9 and has called it home ever since. A Grapevine High School graduate and lifelong Dallas Cowboys fan\, he’s gone on to become one of the best-selling artists of his generation\, blending hip-hop\, rock\, and country while never losing his North Texas roots.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/post-malone-birthday/
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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