Texas Music

Subject: Re: Texas Music Sat 10 Nov 2007, 1:11 pm

YEAH John Denver, pretty cool ol cat. Could'nt get cofy in your fine state. Sad hes gone

Subject: Re: Texas Music Tue 11 Dec 2007, 12:14 am

For those of us who missed Michael Martin Murphey's performance tonight in Fort Worth, another opportunity is available. Mr. Murphey will be giving his 'Cowboy Christmas Concert' along with his band, at Corsicana's beautiful, restored Palace Theater, this Sunday, December 16 .... from 6:00 - 9:00 PM.*

http://www.corsicanapalace.com/

Unfortunately, I don't think that I will be able to be among the audience members that evening Crying or Very sad

But to ya'll who may be reading, go if you can Smile

Has anyone ever been present for Michael Murphey's 'Cowboy Christmas' .... or for any of his other performances? I never have heard him play live, but we have been listening to his album, Blue Sky ... Night Thunder (1975) at our house often, of late. I'd long enjoyed several of the tracks to be heard on it, but believe that I am just now beginning to appreciate these compositions which M. Murphey left to us several decades ago. Here we have songs of joy and inspiration; of reflection .... and songs which can be drawn from to form lessons for the young folks.

It just takes a rearing in Dallas -- and perhaps, in Texas at-large -- to cause one to appreciate certain things. Which things are those? Betcha Michael Martin Murphey knows .... and knew a long time ago.

Here's his website:

http://www.michaelmartinmurphey.com/

This guy is ultra-cool, and makes me proud to have been born a Texan sunny

*This concert is scheduled on M. M. Murphey's website, but I could find no record of it on the calendar of the Palace Theater site. Perhaps it has been cancelled?
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

Subject: Re: Texas Music Thu 14 Feb 2008, 10:03 pm

Here is a little biographical information from the USGen Web site for Fannin County .... concerning Bill Boyd, who was born in said county about 1904:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~txfannin/boydb.html

I was unfamiliar with Mr. Boyd and his "Cowboy Ramblers.' Does anyone know just how many 'cowboy singers' our state may have nurtured ~ to find their voices recorded and their music captured in print during the 1920s and 1930s?

Most all of us are acquainted with Gene Autry and his great success in Hollywood, but there may have been others of less renown whose music might be resurrected and enjoyed.

Here was not so much 'cowboy' as country, of course, but the late Buck Owens was born in Grayson County:

http://www.buckowens.com/index2.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Owens
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

Subject: Re: Texas Music Thu 14 Feb 2008, 10:10 pm

Also, one of the most gifted and inspired hymnists of our times, Twila Paris, was born in Fort Worth .... though moving with her family quite early to Arkansas ~

http://www.twilaparis.com/

http://www.cmo.com/cmo/cmo/data/tparis.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twila_Paris

sunny

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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

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How about a link to that Primitive Baptist site once again.

Subject: Re: Texas Music Fri 22 Feb 2008, 5:01 pm

This one?

http://www.indianoakspbc.org/hymns.htm

If so, yes ... I love those hymns, too sunny

The church is very generous to have made them available for listening on their website.
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

Subject: Two Good Texans Mon 25 Feb 2008, 11:52 pm

... who have inspired us to be more so:

http://www.jimmievaughan.com/

http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/002283.html
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

... and to our grace and abundance:

http://www.lastdaysministries.org/keith/index.html
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

Subject: Re: Texas Music Tue 26 Feb 2008, 12:14 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6hOyx8LF4I

More to be found of Keith's life and work there as well ...

Thank you eternally, Keith .... Melody, and family

http://www.lastdaysministries.org/keith/index.html
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

Subject: The Great Bard and Great Man, Willie Nelson Wed 27 Feb 2008, 5:07 pm

His website:

http://www.willienelson.com/

(but of course)

A little ramble:

I found a copy of our Texas songster's autobiography recently ('Willie,' W. Nelson w/B. Shrake, 1988), and through its pages discovered a glimpse of 1950s-North-Texas that otherwise I might not have been treated to! Willie briefly was a disc jockey in Denton, for instance, while living in Fort Worth. Finding this commute too burdensome, he radioed for a while, closer to home, at Station KCNC. Later, he sat behind the mike at Fort Worth's KCUL ("luck spelled backwards"). Nights drew him to shoot dice at the 2222 Club out on Jacksboro Highway when he wasn't making live music at the Mountaineer Tavern on 10th (and many others ... he and Curtis could sit down and have a grand old chat and maybe oven weave a song or two out of their fair-titled honkey-tonks). Willie first "blew tea" way back in 1954 in Cowtown. He also taught Sunday school and sold the 'Encyclopedia Americana' while living there. Our guy sure crammed alotalivin into just the few years he hung his hat in Cowtown!

Dallas is viewed mainly through its rivalry with Fort Worth here in Willie's book. "If a Dallas gambler tried to move into Fort Worth," he tells us, "our local gamblers would get together long enough to shoot him." The Fort-Worth police had their act together and faced troublemakers (like Willie?) with resoluteness. "If you want to try to scare people, go to Dallas," heard the thug.

Mr. Nelson's path had a couple of upward and downward curves after he left Dallas' rival, but ultimately it was was up, up, up .... as we know! Plus, today, he has his own little town called 'Luck.' Full-circle, huh?

This is a great book!

And some very enlightening reviews of a little tome Willie has written, courtesy of readers on amazon.com (otherwise known as the literary truth source):

http://tinyurl.com/3ybnt4

Also ~ on Willie's site, one might find information and/or photos regarding his 'intentionally constructed' Western town, which he has christened,
[/i]Luck, Texas[i]. Here is more:

http://www.lucktexas.com/

Of note is that Luck, special though it is, does not stand alone as a town standing still in our state. There also are these, seen courtesy of the Texas Film Commission:

http://www.governor.state.tx.us/divisions/film/production/sets.htm

I would like to have one of those .... wouldn't you? sunny

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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

Subject: Re: Texas Music Wed 27 Feb 2008, 5:11 pm

PS. For the sake of accuracy, there never really was a Fort Dallas .... any more than there was a Luck (so far as I know). The set seen on Governor Perry's website is actually a view of the restored and relocated, historic buildings in Dallas' Old City Park (or, 'Dallas Heritage Village,' as it seems to be known, now).

Hopefully Willie wouldn't object to the clarification right here.
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

Subject: Re: Texas Music Wed 27 Feb 2008, 6:34 pm

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