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This Week in Texas Music HistoryThis Week in Texas Music History: Urban CowboyThis Week in Texas Music History, we’ll recall a bar fight that helped start a worldwide country music craze. On September 12, 1978, Aaron Latham’s story “The Ballad of the Urban Cowboy: America’s Search for True Grit” appeared in Esquire magazine. In the article, Latham profiled the world’s largest honky-tonk, Gilley’s in Pasadena, Texas. Operated by Sherwood Cryer and country singer Mickey Gilley, the club could hold as many as 6,000 patrons. Latham described two of Gilley’s regular customers, Dew and Betty, who broke up after a fight over the club’s mechanical bull. Latham eventually... |
This Week in Texas Music History
Santiago Almeida
Texas music scholar Gary Hartman looks at a musician who used an obscure folk instrument to help redefine modern Texas-Mexican music.
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This Week in Texas Music History
Kathy Dell
Texas music scholar Gary Hartman explores the story of the Texan responsible for the first ever commercial recording in country music.
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This Week in Texas Music History
Kris Kristofferson
Texas State University music scholar Gary Hartman examines a Texas who was a Rhodes scholar, a janitor, and a helicopter pilot before becoming an award winning songwriter and mov…...
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This Week in Texas Music History
Adolf Hofner
Texas Music scholar Gary Hartman tells the story of a musician who popularized one of the best known fiddle tunes in Texas, but had to change his name to avoid ethnic persecution.
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This Week in Texas Music History
T-Bone Walker
Music scholar Gary Hartman tells the story of a kid from a Dallas suburb who learned to play guitar from Blind Lemon Jefferson and Leadbelly before becoming a major influence of Elv…...
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This Week in Texas Music History
Lydia Mendoza
Texas music scholar Gary Hartman looks at a singer who traveled with migrant farm workers as a child before becoming one of the most influential women in Texas music.
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This Week in Texas Music History
Willie Nelson
Texas Music scholar Gary Hartman tells us the story of a legendary country singer who started his career playing German and Czech polka music.
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This Week in Texas Music History
Antone’s Nightclub
Texas music historian Gary Hartman tells us about the nightclub that helped resurrect the careers of several blues legends, while also launching the careers of many younger arti…...
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This Week in Texas Music History
Eck Robertson
Texas music scholar, Gary Hartman, tells us about a Texan who made the first ever commercial recording in country music.
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This Week in Texas Music History
Louise Massey
Texas State University music scholar Gary Hartman examines the story of a trailblazing singer whom many have called “the original rhinestone cowgirl.”
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This Week in Texas Music History
Freddy Fender
Texas Music scholar Gary Hartman tells us about a South Texas native who was born into poverty but became an internationally successful pop, rock and roll, country, and conjunto a…...
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This Week in Texas Music History
George Strait
Music scholar Gary Hartman follows a musician who was turned down by a number of night clubs and record companies before becoming the most successful country musician in history.
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This Week in Texas Music History
Erbie Bowser
Texas music scholar Gary Hartman traces the journey of one musician from the oilfields of West Texas to the bright lights of Carnegie Hall.
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This Week in Texas Music History
Santiago Jimenez
Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a man who pioneered one of Texas’ most popular musical genres, yet still had to work as a janitor to support his family.
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