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This Week In Texas Music History: Ballad of the Urban Cowboy (opens the original)
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by Jason Mellard, Center for Texas Music History at Texas State University This Week in Texas Music History, boy […]
The Week In Texas Music History: Austin’s Inner Sanctum opens its doors (opens the original)
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by Jason Mellard, Center for Texas Music History at Texas State On August 28, 1970, Joe Bryson opened Inner Sanctum Records in Austin near the University of Texas. Debuting in the same month as the venue the Armadillo World Headquarters, the store would be an epicenter of the city’s vibrant 1970s scene. Bryson, a UT student and KUT sound engineer, had jumped at the chance to buy the store Phil’s Records in the West Campus neighborhood. He renamed it Inner Sanctum and moved the business to its cl
This Week In Texas Music History: a San Marcos jazz artist electrifies the musical world (opens the original)
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by Jason Mellard, Center for Texas Music History at Texas State University On August 19, 1906, a jazz pioneer was born in San Marcos. Eddie Durham—trombonist, composer, arranger, and trailblazer on the electric guitar—learned music theory from his older brother Joe and began his professional career at age ten with the Durham Brothers Orchestra. He traveled as far as New York City with territory bands, including Walter Page’s highly influential Blue Devils and Bennie Moten’s band, where he would
This week in Texas music history: Austin punks descend on New York City (opens the original)
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by Jason Mellard, Center for Texas Music History at Texas State University On August 3rd and 4th, 1979, the Austin band the Skunks played punk’s most hallowed stage, CBGB’s in New York City. They were fitting ambassadors to bring Texas punk back to one of its seedbeds, though Austin’s scene may have owed its origins more to London than Manhattan. It had been the Sex Pistols San Antonio date at Randy’s Rodeo that lit the fuse. After attending that show, a band called the Violators—Kathy Valentine
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