Location: Alpine

Alpine, Texas is an officially designated “Music Friendly Community” renowned for its vibrant, Americana-driven desert arts scene. The town thrives on its deep cowboy-poetry heritage, decentralized live venues, and year-round acoustic showcases that attract touring singer-songwriters and independent roots bands from across the state.

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Alpine: RingTail Records

Far West Texas’s record store, steps from the Granada Theater on East Holland Avenue in Alpine

Between El Paso and San Antonio, most of Texas goes without a record store. Alpine breaks that stretch. RingTail Records carries everything from 1940s big band 78s to reggae to hip-hop — a Far West Texas institution steps from the Granada Theater.

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Alpine: The Granada Theatre

A Restored 1929 Theater at the Heart of Trans-Pecos Music

The Granada Theatre in Alpine is a restored 1929 movie house and the anchor stage of West Texas music — home to the Viva Big Bend festival and year-round Trans-Pecos shows.

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