Birthdays

Today is the birthday of Johnny Winter. He would be 83 today. Beaumont, Texas sits in the Golden Triangle — the industrial coastal zone where the refineries run day and […]

Today is the birthday of Bob Wills. He would be 122 today. James Robert Wills was born on March 6, 1905, on a farm near Kosse in Limestone County, Texas. […]

Today is the birthday of Townes Van Zandt. He would be 83 today. John Townes Van Zandt was born in Fort Worth, Texas on March 7, 1944, into a family […]

Today is the birthday of Ornette Coleman. He would be 97 today. Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman was born in Fort Worth, Texas on March 9, 1930. Fort Worth's Southside was […]

Today is the birthday of Flaco Jiménez. He is 88 today. Leonardo Jiménez Jr. was born in San Antonio, Texas on March 11, 1939. His father, Don Santiago Jiménez Sr., […]

Today is the birthday of Lightnin' Hopkins. He would be 115 today. Sam John Hopkins was born in Centerville, Texas on March 15, 1912. Leon County is in the heart […]

Today is the birthday of Charley Pride. He would be 92 today. Charley Frank Pride was born on March 18, 1934, in Sledge, Mississippi. But Texas was where he became […]

Today is the birthday of Jimmie Vaughan. He is 76 today. Jimmie Vaughan was born in Dallas, Texas on March 20, 1951, and grew up in Oak Cliff on the […]

Marcia Ball was born in Orange, Texas, on March 20, 1949. Nobody rocks a Texas blues piano like she does — six Grammy nominations prove it.

Charley Crockett was born March 24, 1984 in San Benito, Texas — the Rio Grande Valley town that shaped his Gulf and Western sound.

Norah Jones grew up in Grapevine and swept the 2003 Grammy Awards with eight wins for her debut album Come Away with Me on Blue Note Records.

Lefty Frizzell was born in Corsicana on March 31, 1928. He invented the way country singers phrase a note — and Merle Haggard was listening.