This Week in Texas Music HistoryMay 20, 2025May 22, 2025 Kerrville Folk Festival Finds a home at Quiet Valley Ranch An esteemed folk festival sets down roots in the Hill Country.
This Week in Texas Music HistoryMay 13, 2025May 13, 2025 Leon Payne at Texas School for the Blind This Week in Texas Music History, a classically trained honky-tonk hero rambles around and rolls along that lost highway.
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 HistoryApr 30, 2025Apr 30, 2025 End of an Ear Opens This Week in Texas Music History is brought to you by Brane Audio! By Jason Mellard from the Center […]
This Week in Texas Music HistoryApr 22, 2025Apr 22, 2025 Emo’s Opens On April 24, 1992, local punk trio Jesus Christ Superfly took the stage in an old brick building at […]
This Week in Texas Music HistoryApr 15, 2025Apr 16, 2025 Western Swing’s Founding Father Milton Brown Dies in Crash Outside Ft. Worth This Week in Texas Music History, we lost a Western swing founding father almost as soon as the genre […]
This Week in Texas Music HistoryApr 7, 2025Apr 7, 2025 Arnaldo Ramírez is Born This Week in Texas Music History, we hear how one man helped the South Texas record industry take flight. […]
This Week in Texas Music HistoryMar 31, 2025Mar 31, 2025 Billy Bob’s Opens in Fort Worth, Texas This Week in Texas Music History, the world’s largest honky-tonk opens its doors.
This Week in Texas Music HistoryMar 24, 2025Mar 24, 2025 Prince Albert Hunt Records For the First Time in San Antonio This Week in Texas Music History, early record scouts capture a Mount Rushmore of roots music in San Antonio.
National Portrait Gallery London This Week in Texas Music HistoryMar 17, 2025Mar 20, 2025 Buddy Tate first records with Count Basie, “Rock a Bye Basie” This Week in Texas Music History, a saxophone player from North Texas joins up with jazz royalty.
This Week in Texas Music HistoryMar 10, 2025Mar 10, 2025 The 1990 Austin Music Awards featuring performances from Daniel Johnston, Townes Van Zandt, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and more ***This Week In Texas Music History is supported by Brane Audio*** On March 14, 1990, Nanci Griffith, Townes Van […]
This Week in Texas Music HistoryMar 3, 2025Mar 3, 2025 Country Singer Jimmy Heap is Born This Week in Texas Music History, we visit a lesser-known name who just might be top of the heap […]
This Week in Texas Music HistoryFeb 24, 2025Feb 24, 2025 Fort Worth band Bloodrock Releases Debut Album This Week in Texas Music History, a Fort Worth band helps Texas enter its Dazed and Confused era.
This Week in Texas Music HistoryFeb 17, 2025Feb 20, 2025 Austin’s Cavity Club Closes After Years of Legendary Performances On February 20, 1993, the notorious Austin punk club the Cavity closed with a final show by the band […]
This Week in Texas Music HistoryFeb 10, 2025Feb 14, 2025 Leo Wright Records With Dizzy Gillespie at MOMA This Week in Texas Music History, Texas jazz echoes off the walls of one of the world’s premier art […]
This Week in Texas Music HistoryFeb 3, 2025Feb 14, 2025 Singer Trini Lopez Performs With the Beatles in Paris Prior to Beatlemania From January 16th to February 4th 1964, Dallas singer Trini Lopez and the Beatles shared a residency at the […]
This Week in Texas Music HistoryJan 27, 2025Feb 3, 2025 Etta Moten Barnett Performs at The White House This Week in Texas Music History, a star of stage and screen makes history in Washington, D.C.
This Week in Texas Music HistoryJan 21, 2025Jan 22, 2025 Jazzman Julius Hemphill is born in Fort Worth This Week in Texas Music History, we add another chapter to Fort Worth’s weighty tome of experimental jazz.
This Week in Texas Music HistoryJan 13, 2025Jan 13, 2025 Vietnamese singer Bach-Yen records at Sonobeat in Austin This Week in Texas Music History, Vietnam comes to Sixties Austin through an unexpected ambassador.
This Week in Texas Music HistoryJan 7, 2025Jan 7, 2025 Blues Pianist Katie Webster is Born This Week in Texas Music History, we meet Houston’s “Swamp Boogie Queen.”
This Week in Texas Music HistoryDec 31, 2024Jan 3, 2025 Armadillo World Headquarters closes This Week in Texas Music History, we hear the rollicking swan song of the Armadillo.
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 HistoryDec 9, 2024Dec 9, 2024 Opera Singer and Civic Leader Zelma Watson George is Born This Week in Texas Music History, we meet an East Texas opera singer who became an ambassador on the […]
This Week in Texas Music HistoryDec 2, 2024Dec 5, 2024 Houston Rapper Fat Pat is Born This Week in Texas Music History, we celebrate the author of Houston’s premier Slab anthem
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