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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270307
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270308
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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
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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