Let's go around the Great State for Late Night Texas Music: Gonna start with Dallas' own Stevie Ray Vaughan
Now down to Houston for the Geto Boys
On down to Corpus Christi for Selena Quintanilla-Pérez
Way on down to San Benito for Freddy Fender and the Texas Tornados
Up to San Antonio for Flaco Jiménez with The Mavericks
San Antonio gets a few here. Staying in SA for Pat Green:
On the South Side of San Antonio, we find Emilio Navaira - Como Le Hare
Up I-35 to Austin: It's Spoon:
Staying in Central Texas, here's Willie Nelson with Ray Charles: Seven Spanish Angels
One more in Austin: Asleep at the Wheel with House of Blue Lights
Quick back down to San Marcos for the Randy Rogers Band:
Shout out to Bryan/College Station, where Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen wrote This Old Porch
Over to Fort Worth, where James McMurtry was born and went on to do songs like Just Us Kids:
Out to West Texas and Lubbock's own Natalie Maines and the Dixie Chicks.
I remember seeing this live in '06.
Still breathtaking:
Gotta include Tyler in East Texas courtesy of @MillerforKeller: William Clark Green - Rose Queen (great version)
Splitting the difference between West Texas (Lubbock) and Tarrant County for this Billy Bob's performance by Cory Morrow
So many legends. From Beaumont/Port Arthur, the incomparable Janis Joplin with Summertime
This performance is from Dallas, but I'm thinking of when he played the bars around Washington and Austin Counties. George Strait with Blame it on Mexico:
When I was a teenage DJ, one of the artists I got to introduce at the Texas Hall of Fame in College Station was Jack Ingram. Here he is with Flutter:
And since the Brazos Valley *sort of* qualifies as Southeast Texas, let's do one by the Cowboy from Katy: Clint Black and Good Run of Bad Luck
And of course y'all are right, Buddy Holly should be in this thread
I like the way Khalid reps El Paso. Can't We Just Talk?
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