Today is the birthday of Mance Lipscomb. He would be 131 today. Beau De Glen Lipscomb was born in Navasota, Texas on April 9, 1895 — the son of a sharecropper and a former slave. He spent sixty years as a farmer and part-time musician in Grimes County, playing dances and picnics for his neighbors. […]
Billy Gibbons and the gritty Houston-born blues-rock trio ZZ Top are back on tour for 2026 with the Big One Tour.
Today is the birthday of Selena. She would be 55 today. Selena Quintanilla was born in Lake Jackson, Texas on April 16, 1971. Her father Abraham had played in a Tejano band and knew the business. He recognized something in his youngest daughter early and built a family band around her. They played restaurants and […]
Today is the birthday of Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. He would be 102 today. Clarence Brown was born on April 18, 1924 in Vinton, Louisiana — but Texas made him. His family moved to Orange, and Brown grew up absorbing everything the Gulf Coast offered: blues, country, Western Swing, jazz, zydeco. He played guitar, violin, viola, […]
Today is the birthday of Roy Orbison. He would be 90 today. Roy Kelton Orbison was born in Vernon, Texas on April 23, 1936, and grew up in West Texas oil towns — Wink and Odessa. He had an operatic tenor voice in a land of honky-tonk. He started recording in Clovis, New Mexico with […]
Country music legend Willie Nelson's birthday is April 29. He was born in 1933 in Abbott, near Waco in Central Texas. However, due to a clerical error on his birth certificate, his birthday was recorded as April 30. As a result, Nelson celebrates his birthday on both April 29 and April 30 each year.
Today is the birthday of Willie Nelson. He is 93 today. Willie Hugh Nelson was born in Abbott, Texas on April 29, 1933. Abbott is a small farming community in Hill County, about sixty miles south of Fort Worth. His parents left when he was young. His grandparents raised him. He was picking cotton at […]
Today is the birthday of Terry Allen. He is 83 today. Terry Allen was born in Wichita Falls, Texas on May 7, 1943. The Panhandle edge and the oil field country made an impression that never washed off. Allen grew up to become one of the most genuinely original artists Texas has produced — songwriter, […]
Today is the birthday of Trini Lopez. He would be 89 today. Trinidad Lopez III was born in Dallas, Texas on May 15, 1937, in the Segundo Barrio neighborhood of West Dallas. His father played bajo sexto in the Dallas Mexican-American community, and Trini absorbed the music early. He played local clubs through his teens […]
Today is the birthday of George Strait. He is 74 today. George Harvey Strait was born in Poteet, Texas on May 18, 1952 — the strawberry capital of Texas, deep in the South Texas brush country. He grew up on a ranch outside Pearsall and joined the army, where he played in a country band. […]
Today is the birthday of T-Bone Walker. He would be 116 today. Aaron Thibeaux Walker was born in Linden, Texas on May 28, 1910 — deep East Texas, in Cass County pine country. His family moved to Dallas when he was two. He grew up in the Oak Cliff neighborhood and learned to play guitar […]
Today is the birthday of Lydia Mendoza. She would be 110 today. Lydia Mendoza was born in Houston, Texas on May 31, 1916, into a family that performed on the streets of the Texas-Mexico border towns. Her mother played guitar. Her sisters sang. Lydia taught herself 12-string guitar and sang with a voice that was […]
