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All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music


en Paperback – 30 sep 2005
From country and blues to rap and punk, Texas music is all over the map, figuratively and literally. Texas musicians have pioneered new musical genres, instruments, and playing styles, proving themselves to be daring innovators who often call the tune for musicians around the country and even abroad. To introduce some of these trailblazing Texas musicians to a wider audience and pay tribute to their accomplishments, Michael Corcoran profiles thirty-two of them in All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music.Corcoran covers musicians who work in a wide range of musical genres, including blues, gospel, country, rap, indie rock, pop, Cajun, Tejano, conjunto, funk, honky-tonk, rockabilly, rhythm and blues, and Western swing. His focus is on underappreciated artists, pioneers who haven't fully received their due. He also includes well-known musicians who've been underrated, such as Stevie Ray Vaughan and Selena, and invites us to take a closer look at the unique talents of these artists. Corcoran's profiles come from articles he wrote for the Dallas Morning News, Austin American-Statesman, Houston Press, and other publications, which have been expanded and updated for this volume. His musical detective work even uncovers a case of mistaken identity (Washington Phillips) and corrects much misinformation on Blind Willie Johnson and Arizona Dranes. Corcoran closes the book with lively pieces on the Austin music scene and its most famous, if no longer extant, clubs, as well as his personal lists of the forty greatest Texas songs of all time and the twenty-five essential CDs for Texas music fans.
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ISBN-13: 9780292709768
ISBN-10: 0292709765
Pagini: 176
Ilustrații: 54 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 154 x 230 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press

Cuprins

PrefaceEAST TEXAS/HOUSTON1. SOUL STIRRERS (Trinity)In Search of Rebert Harris2. HARRY CHOATES (Port Arthur)Death in a Jail Cell3. WASHINGTON PHILLIPS (Freestone County)Lift Him Up, That's All4. CLARENCE "GATEMOUTH" BROWN (Orange)At the Crossroads5. THE GETO BOYS AND DJ SCREW (Houston)Where the Dirty South Began6. ARCHIE BELL AND THE DRELLS (Houston)"Hey, everybody! That's me"7. FLOYD TILLMAN (Houston)Honky-tonk Triple ThreatDALLAS AREA8. T-BONE WALKER (Oak Cliff)Architect of Electric Blues9. ELLA MAE MORSE (Mansfield)"You sing like a black girl"10. SLY STONE (Denton)The Funk Grows in Texas11. ERNEST TUBB (Crisp)The Original E.T.12. ARIZONA DRANES (Dallas)The Gospel Beat13. FREDDIE KING (Gilmer)The Stinging Leads Heard \'cross the Atlantic14. RONNIE DAWSON (Waxahachie)The Blond BomberWACO AREA15. BILLY JOE SHAVER (Waco)"The second time I done it on my own"16. BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON (Marlin)The Soul of a Man17. CINDY WALKER (Mexia)First Lady of Texas Song18. WILLIE NELSON (Abbott)The Red-Headed Stranger at 70AUSTIN19. STEVIE RAY VAUGHANStraight from the Heart20. BLAZE FOLEYDeath of a Songwriter21. BUTTHOLE SURFERSShowing Worm Movies22. RAY WYLIE HUBBARDFrom Rednecks to Rilke23. TOWNES VAN ZANDTDeath on New Year's Day24. DON WALSERLast of the Singing Cowboys25. ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDOHands of the SonSAN ANTONIO AND THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY26. STEVE JORDAN (San Antonio)The Invisible Genius27. DOUG SAHM (San Antonio)The Genre Conqueror28. SELENA AND LYDIA MENDOZA (Corpus Christi, San Antonio)The First and Last Queens of TejanoWEST TEXAS29. WAYLON JENNINGS (Littlefield)An Outlaw at Rest29a. THE CHUCK WAGON GANG (Lubbock)Higher Power through Harmony30. BOBBY FULLER (El Paso)Rock \'n' Roll MysteryBONUS TRACKS31. The New SincerityAustin in the Eighties32. The Texas Top 40Michael Corcoran's List of the Best Texas Recordings Ever33. The Dead Clubs of the Live Music Capital34. Twenty-five Essential Texas Music CDsAcknowledgmentsIndex of Names

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Award-winning music critic Michael Corcoran profiles 32 pioneering Texas musicians, including Ernest Tubb, Archie Bell and the Drells, Sly Stone, Billy Joe Shaver, Willie Nelson, Selena, Waylon Jennings, and the Butthole Surfers.