Today is the birthday of Scott Joplin. He would be 158 today. Scott Joplin was born around November 24, 1868, near Texarkana, Texas — the border city that straddles the line between Texas and Arkansas. His father was a former slave who played violin. His mother played banjo and sang. A local German-born music teacher […]
Today is the birthday of Teddy Wilson. He would be 114 today. Teddy Wilson played piano like a man arranging silverware, precise, elegant, never a note out of place. He came from Austin, Texas, and grew up in a family of educators at Tillotson College. Teddy Wilson's Austin, Texas childhood filled his house with books, […]
Sam Riggs brings his dusty, muscular brand of Texas Red Dirt to Billy Bob's Texas in Fort Worth on Wednesday, November 25, 2026, the night before Thanksgiving, for a homecoming-style show with his band the Night People. Showtime is 9:00 PM inside the World's Largest Honky Tonk, where Riggs and his band are known for […]
Reverend Horton Heat brings its high-octane psychobilly to The Heights Theater in Houston on November 27, with the show starting at 8 PM. Fronted by Jim Heath since forming in Dallas in the late 1980s, the band has spent nearly four decades fusing rockabilly’s slapback bass and twang with punk’s speed and aggression into a […]
William Clark Green plays Billy Bob's Texas in Fort Worth on Saturday, November 28, 2026, the Thanksgiving-weekend slot bringing his raw, small-town Texas songwriting to the Stockyards. Showtime is 10:00 PM inside the World's Largest Honky Tonk, where Green's honest, unpolished performance style tends to connect directly with a room full of Texans who grew […]
Tony and Grammy winner Leslie Odom Jr. brings his Christmas Tour to The Long Center for the Performing Arts in Austin on Sunday, November 29, 2026, at 7:30 PM, backed by the Austin Symphony Orchestra. Tickets start at $124 for a holiday evening with one of Broadway's most acclaimed leading men. Odom Jr. rose to […]
Neal McCoy brings three decades of chart-topping hits and one of country music's most energetic stage shows to Billy Bob's Texas in Fort Worth on Friday, December 4, 2026. Showtime is 10:00 PM inside the World's Largest Honky Tonk, where McCoy's reputation as one of the genre's most reliable entertainers should turn a December Friday […]
John R. Miller, the West Virginia-born Americana songwriter praised for his plainspoken, road-worn storytelling, plays Sons of Hermann Hall in Dallas on December 6, with support from Lou Hazel, tickets from $20 advance / $24 day-of. Miller spent years playing in regional bluegrass and old-time bands around Virginia and West Virginia before stepping out as […]
Today is the birthday of Floyd Tillman. He would be 112 today. Floyd Tillman grew up chasing cotton wagons through Post, Texas, on the South Plains. Oklahoma claims his birthplace, but West Texas dance halls raised his songwriting ear. By the 1930s, he helped invent honky-tonk before the genre even had that name. His song […]
Today is the birthday of Johnny Rodriguez. He would be 75 today. Johnny Rodriguez of Sabinal, Texas, once sang his way out of a jail cell. As a teenager, he landed in trouble for taking a goat, then found himself behind bars. A local sheriff heard him singing there and couldn't stop talking about it. […]
Stoney LaRue closes out the year at Billy Bob's Texas in Fort Worth on Friday, December 11, 2026, bringing one of Red Dirt music's defining voices to the Stockyards for a night built for hardcore fans. Showtime is 10:00 PM inside the World's Largest Honky Tonk, where LaRue's gravelly voice and road-tested band typically turn […]
Today is the birthday of Billy Gibbons. He is 77 today. William Frederick Gibbons was born in Houston, Texas on December 16, 1949. His father was a professional musician and orchestra conductor. Billy grew up in a house full of music and discovered the blues through Muddy Waters and B.B. King records as a teenager. […]
