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Texas Sadie · **Texas Music -** 05-05-2005, 03:18 PM

Legends of Texas Music. Let's start a list. How many can we think of?
Any style! Not in any order of preference.

1. Willie :)
2. Jerry-Jeff :) (originally from NY, but we adopted him.)
3. ZZ Top :)
4. George Strait
5. Buddy Holly
6. Bob Wills

Hogleg 44 · 05-05-2005, 03:29 PM

Tex Ritter... The most well-versed western singer of any of Hollywoodâ€™s singing cowboys was Tex Ritter. Born Woodward Maurice Ritter in Panola County, Texas

Hogleg 44 · 05-05-2005, 03:34 PM

Jim Reeves...also from Tex Ritter's Panola County.

LoungeLizard · 05-05-2005, 03:54 PM

ZZ Top

Hogleg 44 · 05-05-2005, 04:47 PM

Roger Miller
b. Fort Worth, Texas, January 2, 1936; d. October 25, 1992

Grant Turner
b. Baird, Texas, May 17, 1912; d. October 19, 1991

Buck Owens
b. Sherman, Texas, August 12, 1929\

George Jones
b. Saratoga, Texas, September 12, 1931

Gene Autry
b. Tioga, Texas, September 29, 1907; d. October 2, 1998

Lefty Frizzell
b. Corsicana, Texas, March 31, 1928; d. July 19, 1975

Ernest Tubb
b. near Crisp, Texas, February 9, 1914; d. September 6, 1984

Kris Kristofferson
b. Brownsville, Texas, June 22, 1936

bbailey · 05-05-2005, 04:50 PM

Ummm....Stevie Ray Vaughn!

Steelsun · 05-05-2005, 06:06 PM

Waylon Jennings

Stevie Ray Vaughn

Eric Johnson

the band formerly known as Pantera

Texas Sadie · 05-05-2005, 07:23 PM

I do believe Janis Joplin was from Texas
Kris Kristofferson
David Allen Coe

TexIndian · 05-05-2005, 07:25 PM

Don't forget Kelly Willis, B.J. Stevenson, Rodney Crowell, and Robert Earl Keen (I would add Steven Earl, but he's too liberal to be a real Texan :lol: ). And weren't the Gatlins originally from Abilene or thereabouts?

Texas Sadie · 05-05-2005, 07:32 PM

I don't know about the Gatlins.

Emmy Lou Harris
Lyle Lovett
Gary P. Nunn
Renee Olstead
Asleep at The Wheel

Hogleg 44 · 05-05-2005, 08:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Texas Sadie

I don't know about the Gatlins.

Larry Gatlin was born in 1948 in Seminole, Texas, the son of an oil driller. The oldest of the three Gatlin brothers

wrogers · 05-05-2005, 08:33 PM

Roy Orbison born in Vernon, Tx, grew up in Wink
Jack Teagarten born in Vernon,Tx.

wrogers · **Re: Texas Music -** 05-05-2005, 08:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Texas Sadie

2. Jerry-Jeff :) (originally from NY, but we adopted him.)

He did marry a Lockett, Tx girl

and I think Asleep at the Wheel started in West Virginia

Hogleg 44 · 05-05-2005, 08:53 PM

Blind Lemon Jefferson, who later became the first country blues recording star. Born in the farm community of Couchman 70 miles south of Dallas in 1893,

Sam "Lightnin' " Hopkins of Centerville

Texarkana-born Scott Joplin.

Another link to the past was Dallas pianist and singer "Whistlin' " Alex Moore,

Of course Kelly Clarkson of Burleson

And Selena, as she's known, was born in 1971 in Freeport, Texas

And as a "Texas Music Legend" we certainly must not forget LeAnn Rimes. She is now considered a Texas Singer, Except that she was actually born in Jackson, Mississippi

Hogleg 44 · 05-05-2005, 09:03 PM

The Gospel Group "The Clouds"

And lest we forget. On June 4, 1933, a son was born to Irene and Ernest Mack. Bill Mackâ€™s birthplace, Shamrock, TX,