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This Week In Texas Music History

This Week in Texas Music HistoryMay 7, 2025May 8, 2025

Galveston choir director brings gospel music to the Civil Rights Movement

On May 6, 1948, vocalist and choir director Elizabeth Coleman performed the gospel standard “Climbing Jacob’s Ladder” for an […]

This Week in Texas Music HistoryDec 16, 2024Dec 16, 2024

Ornette Coleman Records ‘Free Jazz’

This Week in Texas Music History, a Fort Worth saxophonist pushes the boundaries of the jazz avant-garde.

This Week in Texas Music HistoryNov 12, 2024Nov 12, 2024

Cotton Club opens in Lubbock, Texas

This Week in Texas Music History, marks the debut of a dancing destination on the high plains.

This Week in Texas Music HistoryOct 14, 2024Oct 14, 2024

Nirvana plays Trees in Dallas

This Week in Texas Music History, grunge hits Dallas, and Dallas hits back.

This Week in Texas Music HistorySep 24, 2024Jan 2, 2025

The Birth of Evelyn Johnson

This week in Texas music history, we meet the woman who made Houston a mecca of rhythm and blues.

This Week in Texas Music HistoryAug 20, 2024Aug 20, 2024

The Birth of Big Moe

This Week in Texas Music History we meet the most sonorous mc of Houston’s Screwed Up Click. Episodes written […]

This Week in Texas Music HistoryJun 18, 2024Jun 18, 2024

Freddy Fender releases “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights”

This Week in Texas Music History Freddy Fender launches his country music comeback.

This Week in Texas Music HistoryJun 4, 2024Jun 3, 2024

The Clash film ‘Rock The Casbah’

This Week in Texas Music History, Middle Eastern politics, English punks, and Austin audiences converge in an iconic 80s […]

This Week in Texas Music HistoryMay 7, 2024May 30, 2024

The Stampede opens in Big Spring

This Week in Texas Music History, a dance hall dynasty springs up on the West Texas plain.

This Week in Texas Music HistoryApr 16, 2024Apr 17, 2024

The Birth of Dolores Farris

This Week in Texas Music History we crown the queen of Austin’s early country scene.

This Week in Texas Music HistoryApr 9, 2024Apr 8, 2024

Buddy Knox on Ed Sullivan

This Week in Texas Music History, we check in with the “other Buddy” of West Texas rock ‘n’ roll.

This Week in Texas Music HistoryApr 2, 2024Apr 2, 2024

“Hot Smoke and Sassafras” on American Bandstand

This Week in Texas Music History – national television featured psychedelic Texans

This Week in Texas Music HistoryMar 26, 2024Mar 27, 2024

The Galvan Ballroom opens up in Corpus Christi

This Week in Texas Music History, a swing ballroom cuts against the grain of South Texas segregation.

This Week in Texas Music HistoryMar 19, 2024Mar 18, 2024

The Discovery of Spoon and Revival of Johnny Cash

This Week in Texas Music History is a two-for-one, with indie rockers and country legends delivering iconic performances on […]

This Week in Texas Music HistoryMar 12, 2024Mar 11, 2024

Eloy Bernal Born

This Week in Texas Music History we meet the bajo sexto player who served as one of conjunto’s major […]

This Week in Texas Music HistoryMar 4, 2024Mar 1, 2024

The Birth of Roxy Gordon

This Week in Texas Music History a visionary poet stakes a claim for the indigenous presence in the state’s […]

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This Week in Texas Music HistoryFeb 27, 2024Feb 27, 2024

The Hi-Toppers make their radio debut on KWED

75 years ago today, The Hi-Toppers made their first radio appearance on Seguin’s KWED!

This Week in Texas Music HistoryFeb 20, 2024Feb 16, 2024

Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris appear at the Armadillo World Headquarters

This Week in Texas Music History – The truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels descend on an […]

This Week in Texas Music HistoryFeb 13, 2024Feb 13, 2024

Bevis M. Griffin champions Black voices at the punk mothership 1987.

This Week in Texas Music History – A Wichita Falls glam rocker champions Black voices at the punk mothership.

This Week in Texas Music HistoryFeb 6, 2024Feb 5, 2024

Swing player and Pianist Ernie Mae Miller Born in Austin 1927

This Week In Texas Music History -We meet an Austin woman who ranged from swing jazz during World War […]

This Week in Texas Music HistoryJan 30, 2024Jan 30, 2024

The !!! Beat begins filming in Dallas 1966

This Week In Texas Music History – Soul arrives to Dallas broadcast television and The !!! Beat begins shooting.

This Week in Texas Music HistoryJan 23, 2024Jan 23, 2024

Sincola’s first performance in Austin 1993

This Week In Texas Music History, Sincola plays their first show at the Texas Tavern in the student union […]

This Week in Texas Music HistoryNov 6, 2023Nov 6, 2023

Stage Icon Texas Guinan Dies

This week in Texas music history we learn about the fabulous life of Texas Guinan

FeaturesJan 27, 2014Oct 13, 2021

Laura Lee Owens McBride

This Week in Texas Music History we’ll celebrate the first female singer to work with the King of Western […]

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