Birthdays

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 Bun B. He would be 54 today. Bun B built rhymes like a refinery builds pressure, slow and relentless. Port Arthur, Texas, raised him under […]

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.

Today is the birthday of Amos Milburn. He would be 100 today. Amos Milburn hammered piano keys in Houston, Texas, like he owed them money. He served in the Navy […]

Today is the birthday of Ally Venable. She would be 28 today. Ally Venable grew up in Kilgore, Texas, a Piney Woods town famous for oil, not guitar heroes. She […]

Today is the birthday of Maren Morris. She would be 37 today. Maren Morris grew up in Arlington, Texas, singing in local honky-tonks by age eleven. Her father drove her […]

Today is the birthday of Lizzo. She would be 39 today. Lizzo spent her early childhood in Detroit, but Houston, Texas built the artist she became. Her family moved there […]