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    Austin: Bob Schneider at ACL Live

    ACL Live at the Moody Theater 310 West Willie Nelson Boulevard, Austin, TX, United States

    Bob Schneider is known for his eclectic musical style, blending elements of folk, rock, rap, funk, bluegrass, reggae, and country.

  • Mance Lipscomb: Navasota’s Steady Hand

    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. […]

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    San Antonio: ZZ Top at Majestic Theatre

    Majestic Theatre - San Antonio 226 E Houston St., San Antonio, United States

    Billy Gibbons and the gritty Houston-born blues-rock trio ZZ Top are back on tour for 2026 with the Big One Tour.

  • Selena: Lake Jackson’s Queen of Tejano

    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 […]

  • Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown: Texas Blues Unboxed

    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, […]

  • Roy Orbison: Vernon’s Operatic Voice

    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 […]

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    Willie Nelson’s birthday

    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.