This Week in Texas Music History – KUTX

This Week in Texas Music History we'll celebrate the first female singer to work with the King of Western Swing.

This Week in Texas Music History, we'll recall a singer, actor and bandleader who carried jazz to Hollywood.

This week in Texas Music History, we'll remember an artist who performed in one of the first African-American bands to record in Texas.

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll go home with the Armadillo, one last time. On January 1, 1981, Austin’s Armadillo World Headquarters closed its doors for good. The cavernous venue had opened ten years earlier as a community arts laboratory, but it soon became the epicenter for Austin’s burgeoning live music scene. During its […]

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll meet a bluesman who played in corner bars and at Carnegie Hall.

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll learn about a songwriter whose flame burned briefly but brightly.

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll celebrate an opera singer who also had the president’s ear.

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll meet a migrant worker who became a king.

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll meet the oven-baked Big Boy of Austin punk.

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll visit a club that played a key role in desegregating the Texas music scene. On November 3, 1944, jazz trumpeter Don Albert opened the Keyhole Club in San Antonio. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and other musical icons played there, along with Texas artists, T-Bone Walker and a young […]