Gruene Hall in New Braunfels is the oldest dance hall in Texas — and one of Ray Wylie Hubbard's most beloved stages in a lifetime of Texas music.
At W.H. Adamson High School in Oak Cliff, Ray Wylie Hubbard sat in class with Michael Martin Murphey — two future Texas music legends in one room.
In 1965, Ray Wylie Hubbard enrolled at North Texas State University in Denton, where his folk and country voice began to find its outlaw shape.
Ray Wylie Hubbard grew up in Oak Cliff, the gritty southwest Dallas neighborhood that shaped his outlaw voice and his lifelong love of the blues.
After a setback in New York, Ella Mae Morse returned to Dallas and spent years near Deep Ellum's blues scene before recording her breakthrough hit.
In 1938, Ella Mae Morse auditioned for Jimmy Dorsey at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas, launching her path to Capitol Records' first gold single.
Ella Mae Morse grew up performing with her jazz combo parents in the Fort Worth area of Tarrant County, Texas, developing the skills of a future star.
In Paris, Texas, young Ella Mae Morse met Uncle Joe, an elderly blues guitarist who taught her to sing the blues and changed American music forever.
Ella Mae Morse was born in Mansfield, Texas in 1924. Explore her birthplace in Tarrant County, where her musical family shaped an American legend.
T-Bone Walker, the Texas-born electric blues pioneer, is buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California, at Capistrano Court.
T-Bone Walker won an amateur contest and earned a solo spot with Cab Calloway's band in Houston, launching his professional music career.
In 1929, T-Bone Walker made his recording debut in Dallas as Oak Cliff T-Bone, cutting Wichita Falls Blues for Columbia Records.