Texas Music: The Sites and the Sounds
Back your blankets and sunscreen; it’s that time of year again for three days of fun in the sun at the Austin City Limits Festival.
Texas Music Road Trip Texas music—it's the soundtrack to our lives. Whether you like jazz, rock, country, blues, gospel, or the zillions of other sub-genres that defy categorization these days, you’ll find it on stage (and on the airwaves) in Texas. For a well-rounded look at the state’s musical legacy, download the 44-page guide Sites & Sounds: Texas Music, A Road Trip. (5 MB PDF)
Austin-based Waterloo Records, which holds iconic status across the U.S., shares its weekly list of the top 10 bestselling Texas artists with Texas Highways readers. See who's on top this week.
Jazz connoisseurs are already in tune with Ornette Coleman. Take a step into this saxophonist’s world and get a feel for past, present and future performances.
Most musicians regard touring as a necessary evil, a mere means to the glorious end of standing up on stage and sharing their souls with an adoring crowd. You have to have a special constitution to endure a life ruled by flight delays, unforeseen traffic jams, bad directions, and other kinks that happen along the way. But if you’re smart, or restless, you learn to embrace the experience, to find the romance. If you’re Joe Ely, you craft indelible songs from it, with titles like “Time for Travelin’,” “Highways and Heartaches,” “Drivin’ Man,” or “I’m on the Run Again.”
Lubbock native Terry Allen uses words, music, and sculpture to create worlds unto themselves. In his songs, he creates shadowy worlds populated with desperadoes and young gringo Turks prowling the Texas-Mexico border, heading off to California in search of things they’ll never find—gold, redemption, a good girl, the way home. Share a TH Moment with Terry Allen.
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