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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2015 9:10:02 GMT -5
I've been meaning to make a Texas music thread for a while and never made it here.
Texas has had it's own State Music Department for over two decades, it's own Texas Music magazine, many different music scenes and venues and covers a wide range of music.
I'll start with Beyonce's recent Grammy gospel performance. I did include this on the Radio thread a few days ago but it's so amazing it's good to repeat it. It also shows the Texas music goes far beyond country music.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2015 10:10:55 GMT -5
Of course, we've gotta have some King George.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2015 10:16:09 GMT -5
Conspirare performing The Beatitudes from The Sacred Spirit of Russia. Hubby's former choir director is in this group. Conspirare just won a Grammy for best choral performance. I think they've had 8 nominations but this is their first win.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2015 10:18:51 GMT -5
While I'm thinking about church, sometimes the Texas Sky Band performs during the service and at church events at the church we go to now.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2015 10:31:16 GMT -5
Kenny Rogers is a local boy...born and raised in Houston.
Early Kenny
Kenny has had such a long career, there's so much to choose from. Let's go off the well known path to one of my favorites
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2015 10:38:23 GMT -5
One more older artist and then I'll do some younger ones....Don Williams grew up in Portland, Texas
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2015 10:44:21 GMT -5
One of son's high school friends in the studio with one of her original songs. She's such a sweetheart. Always has been. Smart, smart, smart girl...I think she was salutatorian of her and son's graduating class. Trying to remember the number of kids in his class now...600 and some.
Another clip for Ira
She's gotten great reviews in the Houston Music Scene.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2015 10:54:24 GMT -5
Another local girl. Katie won the radio contest at my (now former) favorite country music station. She's from the same suburb we live in but the high school one over from us. She wrote this song when she made the move to Nashville. It was a couple or three years after her first singles since she was 16 and still in school when she got a recording contract.
This was her breakout hit a few years ago
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2015 11:03:31 GMT -5
Houston has it's own rap scene. It's not something I follow but I'll include a couple of videos:
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Post by lauriej on Apr 16, 2015 11:13:24 GMT -5
My very favorite Don Williams tune. Love this arrangement
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2015 11:21:12 GMT -5
I should include a bit about Texas Blues. From the Texas Blues wiki page:
Texas Blues is a subgenre of the blues, and of course is not limited to Texas-based musicians. It has had various style variations but typically has been played with more swing than other blues styles. Texas blues differs from styles such as Chicago blues in use of instruments and sounds, especially the heavy use of the guitar. Musicians such as Stevie Ray Vaughan contributed by using various types of guitar sounds like southern slide guitar and different melodies of blues and jazz. Texas blues also relies on guitar solos or "licks" as bridges in songs.
..and here's Stevie Ray Vaughan performing "Texas Blues" in 1989:
...and a bit of T-Bone Walker
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2015 11:40:39 GMT -5
My very favorite Don Williams tune. Love this arrangement I'm so glad Don is still recording. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2015 11:44:30 GMT -5
Pulling from Yolanda's wiki page:
Yolanda Yvette Adams (born August 27, 1961) is an American gospel singer, record producer, actress, and radio host on WBLS. As of September 2009, she had sold 4.5 million albums since 1991 in the United States, and nearly 8 million albums worldwide according to SoundScan.[1]
On December 11, 2009, Billboard Magazine named her the No. 1 Gospel Artist of the last decade.[2] In the same chart, her album Mountain High...Valley Low was acknowledged as the best gospel album.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2015 12:01:19 GMT -5
From his wiki page:
José Antonio Aguilar Jiménez (born August 7, 1968), better known as Pepe Aguilar, is an American-born (San Antonio, Texas) Mexican singer-songwriter and actor, who works in ranchera, mariachi and pop genres.[1][2] He is the son of music and film stars Antonio Aguilar and Flor Silvestre (Guillermina Jiménez). Aguilar has won four Grammy Award and four Latin Grammy Awards.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2015 12:16:02 GMT -5
Gotta have some Ronnie
the mariachi reminded me to include
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