This Week in Texas Music HistoryNov 3, 2025 This Week in Texas Music History: post-punk Brits help launch Austin’s home of 80s New Wave ***This Week in Texas Music History is brought to you by Brane Audio*** By Jason Mellard from the Center for […]
This Week in Texas Music HistoryOct 28, 2025Oct 28, 2025 This Week in Texas Music History: Jim Franklin’s Annual Pumkin Stomp This Week in Texas Music History, an artist starts a Halloween tradition, and mayhem ensues.
This Week in Texas Music HistoryOct 22, 2025Oct 22, 2025 This Week in Texas Music History: Jazz Icon Alphonso Trent Born This Week in Texas Music History, a jazz artist starts the long road to bebop from a Dallas hotel.
Texas Standard, This Week in Texas Music HistoryOct 13, 2025Oct 15, 2025 This Week in Texas Music History: a Texas legend plays his ace in the hole at Cheatham Street Warehouse On October 13, 1975, George Strait and the Ace in the Hole Band played their first show at Cheatham […]
This Week in Texas Music HistoryOct 8, 2025Oct 8, 2025 This Week in Texas Music History Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, and the Everly Brothers at the City Coliseum On October 7, 1957, Austin’s City Coliseum hosted the Irving Field package tour featuring Buddy Holly, Fats Domino, Chuck […]
This Week in Texas Music HistorySep 30, 2025Oct 3, 2025 This Week in Texas Music History, we settle down home with a Dallas blues singer On September 30, 1935, blues singer Arzell “Z. Z.” Hill was born in Naples in northeast Texas.
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 […]
KUTX 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 […]
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