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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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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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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270310
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SUMMARY:Herschel Evans: Denton's Warm-Toned Rival
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Herschel Evans. He would be 118 today. \nHerschel Evans played tenor saxophone like warm syrup poured over cold biscuits\, thick and comforting. He grew up in Denton\, Texas\, where church music shaped his earliest sense of tone. Herschel Evans’s Denton\, Texas upbringing gave him a sound rooted in feeling\, not flash. He absorbed Coleman Hawkins’s records and chased that same rich\, breathy warmth. By his twenties\, Evans had already built a reputation across Southwest bandstands. Territory bands in Texas and Oklahoma passed his name around like a secret. \nA Legendary Rivalry Split One Saxophone Section\nEvans joined Count Basie’s orchestra and sat beside a very different player\, Lester Young. Young favored a light\, dry tone\, while Evans preferred something heavier and rounder. Fans and bandmates debated nightly which tenor man truly ruled the stage. That friendly rivalry pushed both saxophonists toward their finest recorded work. Evans delivered one of his greatest statements on “Blue and Sentimental\,” a ballad. His solo there still moves listeners nearly ninety years later. Then\, tragedy struck: a heart condition ended his life in 1939\, at just 29. Basie reportedly kept Evans’s chair empty for a night\, unable to fill it immediately. His warm\, blues-drenched style still echoes through Texas tenor players today. Buddy Tate later took his old chair and honored his memory nightly. That lineage connects naturally to the Southwest jazz world explored on Kenny Dorham‘s page. \nEvans never got the decades of fame his talent deserved. Still\, his brief run reshaped how tenor saxophone could sound. Read more about his short\, brilliant career via Herschel Evans. Denton lost him early\, but jazz never forgot his tone.
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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:Vinnie Paul: Arlington's Groove Metal Powerhouse
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Vinnie Paul. He would be 63 today. \nVinnie Paul hit drums like he was trying to crack the earth open. Abilene\, Texas\, claims his birth\, but Arlington shaped his youth. His father\, Jerry Abbott\, owned Pantego Sound Studio nearby. Music filled that house long before Vinnie ever picked up sticks. He and his brother Dimebag Darrell formed a band as teenagers. They named an early lineup Pantera\, meaning panther in Spanish. That band later reshaped heavy metal for an entire generation. Vinnie Paul’s double-bass attack powered every song they wrote. \nThe Arlington Powerhouse Who Drove Pantera’s Groove\nVinnie Paul pounded his kit like a jackhammer breaking concrete on command. That force defined Pantera’s groove metal sound across four Grammy-nominated albums. Albums like “Cowboys from Hell” and “Vulgar Display of Power” shook arenas. His timing locked perfectly with his brother’s razor-sharp guitar riffs. Because the brothers understood each other instinctively\, the band never lost its edge. Fans often called their chemistry telepathic\, and few disagreed. Critics eventually ranked Pantera among metal’s most influential bands. Vinnie Paul later co-founded Hellyeah after Pantera disbanded. \nVinnie Paul lost his brother Dimebag Darrell to violence in 2004. That loss devastated him\, but he kept making music anyway. He died in 2018\, and fans mourned a true Texas original. Friends remembered him as loud\, generous\, and fiercely loyal. He built his career on family\, friendship\, and relentless power. His drumming style still influences metal players worldwide. Arlington shaped a kid who helped define an entire genre. Pantera’s groove still shakes speakers across Texas and beyond.
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SUMMARY:Paul Wall: Houston's People's Champ of Grillz
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Paul Wall. He would be 46 today. \nPaul Wall turned dental hardware into a genuine art form. He grew up in Houston\, Texas\, deep inside its rap scene. He absorbed DJ Screw’s chopped and screwed sound as a teenager. That slow\, syrupy influence shaped his laid-back vocal delivery. His name itself became slang for something genuinely impressive. In 2005 he appeared on Nelly’s single “Grillz\,” and everything changed. The song hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. \nThe Houston Kid Who Made Grillz a National Craze\nPaul Wall built his career like a jeweler polishing rough stones. His 2005 album “The People’s Champ” debuted at number one nationwide. Fans loved his easy charisma and unmistakable gold-toothed smile. That smile became as recognizable as any Houston skyline landmark. Grammy voters even nominated “Grillz” for Best Rap Song that year. Paul Wall never abandoned his Houston roots despite national fame. Later he opened his own jewelry store selling custom grillz locally. Few artists sustain that level of hometown loyalty for decades. That business let him control the culture he helped popularize. \nPaul Wall still records music and runs his Houston-based business today. He represents a specific era when Houston rap conquered mainstream radio. Fellow Houston icons like Beyoncé emerged from that same fertile music scene. Paul Wall never chased trends outside his authentic Houston identity. He turned local slang and local style into a global trend. Grillz became a fashion statement far beyond Southern rap circles. Celebrities nationwide eventually copied a trend Houston started first. Houston shaped him\, and he shaped Houston’s hip-hop reputation forever.
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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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LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270319
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270320
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SUMMARY:Bun B: Port Arthur's Underground King
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Bun B. He would be 54 today. \nBun B built rhymes like a refinery builds pressure\, slow and relentless. Port Arthur\, Texas\, raised him under a skyline of oil refineries. Smoke stacks lit the skyline every night of his childhood. In 1987 he teamed with Pimp C to form UGK. UGK stood for Underground Kingz\, a bold declaration of intent. That partnership became one of Southern rap’s defining forces. Their sound carried the grit of their hometown into every verse. \nPort Arthur’s Refinery Kid Who Built Southern Rap\nBun B raps with a voice like gravel rolling down a steel ramp. His flow stayed steady\, deliberate\, and impossible to rush. In 1996 UGK released “Ridin’ Dirty\,” a Southern rap masterpiece. Critics initially overlooked it\, but fans in Texas never did. The album later earned classic status among hip-hop historians nationwide. Songs like “One Day” showed his reflective\, soulful side too. In 2000 Jay-Z featured Bun B on “Big Pimpin’\,” and mainstream audiences finally noticed. Because Bun B never left Texas\, Texas never forgot him. \nBun B later became a visiting lecturer at Rice University in Houston. He taught religion and hip-hop culture to college students. That move surprised fans who only knew him from Port Arthur streets. His influence now stretches far beyond UGK’s original catalog. Texas hip-hop giants like Beyoncé grew up hearing that same Southern sound. Bun B still champions Houston and Port Arthur every chance he gets. That legacy makes Port Arthur proud every single day. Refinery smoke shaped his voice\, and Texas pride shaped his career.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270320
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270321
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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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LOCATION:TX
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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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LOCATION:TX
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270330
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SUMMARY:Moon Mullican: Corrigan's King of Hillbilly Piano
DESCRIPTION:Today is the birthday of Moon Mullican. He would be 118 today. \nMoon Mullican pounded a piano like he owed it money and was settling the debt. He grew up in Corrigan\, Texas\, in the deep piney woods near the Louisiana line. Moon Mullican’s Corrigan\, Texas upbringing mixed Black blues\, gospel\, and Cajun sounds together early. He absorbed all of it\, then hammered it into a rolling boogie-woogie style. Nobody in country music played piano quite that hard before him. His hands moved like pistons\, relentless and precise across the keys. \nHis Left Hand Basically Invented Rockabilly’s Pulse\nMullican earned the nickname “King of Hillbilly Piano” through relentless\, driving performances. His boogie bass lines thundered under honky-tonk vocals like a runaway locomotive. Jerry Lee Lewis later cited him directly as a formative influence on his own playing. That connection helped bridge hillbilly boogie straight into early rockabilly’s wild energy. Mullican also wrote or co-wrote hits like “New Pretty Blonde” and “Cherokee Boogie.” He blended Cajun accordion phrasing into piano runs nobody else attempted then. Because of that fusion\, his sound predicted rock and roll years before it arrived. He toured relentlessly through East Texas dance halls\, building a devoted regional following. Fellow musicians nicknamed him “Moon” for his round\, moon-shaped face. His boogie-driven style parallels the piano innovations found throughout Scott Joplin‘s Texas legacy. \nMullican died in Beaumont in 1967\, still performing almost until the end. His piano style outlived him\, echoing through rock’s earliest recordings. Read more about his boogie-woogie legacy via Moon Mullican. Corrigan raised a piano man who helped invent rock and roll’s driving pulse.
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LOCATION:TX
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270330
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270331
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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.
URL:https://texasmusicmap.com/event/norah-jones-birthday/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Birthdays
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270331
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270401
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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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