October 20, 1937: Wanda Lavonne Jackson is born in Maud, Oklahoma, almost smack in the middle of the pot of the Panhandle State. From the time she was a little black-haired girl, her musician father encouraged her to sing and […]
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Remembering the one and only “King of Western Swing” Bob Wills today, on this anniversary of his passing on May 13, 1975. If you own the landmark double album, “Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys – For the Last Time” […]
December 3rd and 4th are two of the most important days in music history. For on these days in 1973, the landmark album “Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys – For the Last Time” was recorded at Summit-Burnett Studios in […]
Yesterday, the fiddle world said goodbye to a legend in the Texas fiddle scene, but more poignantly, the world lost a giant of a man. Every fiddler knows that, no matter how good you are with the fiddle, you aren’t […]
We’re back to radio this week, after a brief diversion into the wider world of the music business. I first met Jamie Hoover at the Strawberry Music Festival sometime in the 1990s. The fact that her show is syndicated on so […]
This is the first DJ profile where I didn’t know the person beforehand. It’s also the first DJ who has an “air name” and wishes to keep his anonymity sacred. I found Professor Purple through the Twang DJ Yahoo group, where like-minded air […]
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