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.
In 1969, a teenage Jimmie Vaughan lent his wah-wah pedal to Jimi Hendrix before a Fort Worth show—and walked away with Hendrix's touring pedal in return.
Jimmie Vaughan co-founded The Fabulous Thunderbirds in Austin in 1974, making Antone's nightclub the epicenter of Texas blues for a generation.
Oak Cliff, Dallas raised two legends: Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan learned guitar in this tight-knit neighborhood and shaped Texas blues.
Tanya Tucker was inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame in Carthage in 1997, honoring her lifelong identification with the Lone Star State.
Tanya Tucker recorded her 2005 live album at Billy Bob's Texas in Fort Worth, the world's largest honky-tonk with a 6,000-person capacity in the historic Stockyards.
Tanya Tucker was born on October 10, 1958, in Seminole, Texas — a West Texas oil town that sent one of country music's most enduring voices to the world.
Miranda Lambert recorded The Marfa Tapes in Marfa, Texas — a stripped-down acoustic album with Jon Randall and Jack Ingram, made around a desert campfire.
As a teenager, Miranda Lambert fronted the house band at Longview's Reo Palm Isle, a legendary Texas venue that had hosted Elvis Presley and Willie Nelson.
Miranda Lambert grew up in Lindale, Texas, where she wrote Gunpowder & Lead and later opened The Pink Pistol boutique in her East Texas hometown.
Gary Clark Jr. purchased a ranch in Kyle, Texas in 2016, where a racist encounter with a neighbor inspired the Grammy-winning song This Land.