Location: South Texas

SecondChance Music on Flores Avenue in Laredo stocks vinyl, CDs, cassettes, 8-tracks, and movies, and hosts live acoustic shows on the Texas-Mexico border.

Before the hits, Freddy Fender was Baldemar Huerta — a migrant farmworker's son from San Benito who taught himself guitar and took "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" all the way to number one.

Flaco Jiménez co-founded the Texas Tornados with Doug Sahm, Freddy Fender, and Augie Meyers, winning a Grammy and redefining Tex-Mex music for the world.

Flaco Jiménez was born in San Antonio in 1939 into a dynasty of conjunto musicians, becoming the accordion king who put Tex-Mex music on the world stage.

Born in San Antonio in 1951, Alejandro Escovedo came from a legendary musical dynasty — brothers Pete and Coke Escovedo, and niece Sheila E.

At a 1964 Teen Fair in San Antonio, a young Texas saxophonist named Bobby Keys crossed paths with the Rolling Stones — a meeting that would eventually define both their careers.

San Antonio is where Clarence Gatemouth Brown launched his professional career in 1945, playing drums in local clubs.

George Strait's Pearsall High School, where a South Texas ranch kid joined his first band, fell for country music, and set out to become the King.

George Strait was born in Poteet, the South Texas strawberry country where the King of Country first drew breath on May 18, 1952.

Nashville handed Willie Nelson back his songs in the early 1960s. He walked into Floore's Country Store on Old Bandera Road in Helotes — and what happened next explains almost everything about Texas country music.

Wander through permanent and rotating exhibits that bring Tejano’s evolution to life.

Wander along the tiles year-round for free, soaking up the stories behind South Texas music traditions.