if you like texas country artists, here's a thread for us. fill us in on upcoming concerts,favorite cd's, great songs, and anything else that might be fun.

1.) robert earl keen
ray wylie hubbard
cross canadian ragweed
4.) reckless kelly
5.) guy clark
6.) micky and the motorcars
7.) jason boland & the stragglers
8.) roger creager
9.) stony larue
10.) bart crow band
these are the guys i gotta see before i die. seen kevin fowler last year at g.e.t. balloon race. bad ace!!

Some of my favorite Artists/Groups:
1)Aaron Watson
2)Granger Smith
3)Robert Earl Keen
4)Ray Wylie Hubbard
5)Asleep At The Wheel (Not ENTIRELY sure if they're of the "Texas Country genre"--will check later)
6)Texas Playboys (Old, OLD group, but great material!!)

(and continues with the rest of your list...)

Songs:
1) We Bleed Maroon-Granger Smith
2) Barbed Wire Halo-Aaron Watson
3) The Honkey Tonk Kid-A. Watson
4) All American Country Girl-A. Watson
(I could keep going with Aaron Watson....LOL)

--More to come as I think of'em--

The Casey Donahew Band, IMO, is the best there is right now.

aaron watson played the yamboree barn dance in gilmer couple of years back. the trinity street gym was packed.

I like me some Randy Rogers

Heard they're playing in Tyler on either May 19 or May 20...

Robert Earl Keen
Cory Morrow
Eli Young Band

If I was going to be in East Texas this summer I would most def be there...I didn't like their latest albumn though, they went to mainstream

randy's new cd? it's not bad. could be like pat's new one.

No amount of Coke is going to keep this man down.

Songs:
1) We Bleed Maroon-Granger Smith
2) Barbed Wire Halo-Aaron Watson
3) The Honkey Tonk Kid-A. Watson
4) All American Country Girl-A. Watson
(I could keep going with Aaron Watson....LOL)

--More to come as I think of'em--
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Couple more Aaron Watson off of his Angels and Outlaws album are Can't be a Cowboy forever and Hearts are breaking all across Texas

Randy Rogers Band will play the Electric Cowboy in Tyler May 20 according to their website.

They will be in Huntsville at the Jolly Fox this Thursday for a 3PM(?) show. Ah, the Jolly Fox; I haven't set foot in there since I moved from Huntsburg to Longview in 1981. If memory serves correctly, country acts were not welcome there back then.

Count me as being a bit disappointed in the RR Band's newest album. It's not bad but is a step down from "Just a Matter of Time" to me. On a couple of songs, he sounds like he is emulating that whiney, Tim McGraw style that I dislike intensely.

Cross Canadian Ragweed. Best band going right now.

I'm going to have to agree with this...

1. Casey Donahew
2. Whiskey Myers
3. Jamie Richards
4. Cody Riley Band
5. Brandon Rhyder

that is my top 5 right now, but there are many, many more great bands that are starting to make a name for themselves...

jamie richard's drive cd is great. can play it all the way through. rek is in linden this saturday. anybody know what happened to bootlegger's in tyler? they had some good shows.

I'm a big Charlie Robison fan myself. Here in Nacogdoches, Texas Country is the only kind of music that comes. I like it but after I've seen Kevin Fowler, Cross, Stoney LaRue, Randy Rogers, and everyone else 10 times it gets kinda old.

new cd next month from charlie. counting down the days.

Music City Texas

Robert Earl Keen will make his second appearance at Music City Texas Theater Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets are available at the Box Office 10 a.m. through 3 p.m. Monday through Friday and by calling 903-756-9934. MCT is located at 108 Legion St. in Linden. http://www.musiccitytexas.org.

I used to think Ricky Lynn Gregg was a country artist, but...

"After The Fire Is Gone" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KTSjagxe8Q , and this is his version : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OJ9Frx7_5k

The Great Divide

Cooder Graw

Jango Walker (His daddy Jerry Jeff aint to bad niether.)

The Derailers

are some good ones no one has mentioned.

I've been listening to alot of Casey Donahew, Hayes Carll, and No Justice lately. They're my 3 favs at the moment.

Here's a link to an station that streams Texas Country 24/7.

TOSSM Radio

Ray Wylie Hubbard on Redneck Mother

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E24C4NY0ga8

june 5 alley fest in longview WHISKEY MYERS will be playing at 10:00 pm

charlie robison is playing the balloon race in longview this year.

Amarillo Highway
Robert Earl Keen


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw-VIlPy0yI

Luckenbach , Texas
160 yrs

http://www.luckenbachtexas.com/

There's only two things in life that make it worth livin'
That's guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women
I don't need my name in the marquee lights
I got my song and I got you with me tonight
Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love

KHYI 95.3 FM The Range

Texas Country streaming audio

http://www.khyi.com/

cowboy jim's in pittsburg has eli young band july 10

I read about the Quebe Sisters in Texas Co-Op. Sounds like a class act.

http://www.quebesistersband.com/

Schedule:

http://www.quebesistersband.com/quebe-sisters-schedule.php

that's pretty cool people still like western swing.

you have to pick up charlie robison's new cd. it's great! "yellow blues" has a bluegrass sitar feel to it. if i have to wait 5 more years for another cd like this from him i'll do it.

eli young band- cowboy jim's outside pittsburg july 10
charlie robison w/ kasey musgraves - east texas balloon race july 11
pat green - best in texas rodeo july 10

three great shows coming up. i'll have to pass on pat to get a shot to see charlie. last year you were about 10 feet from kevin fowler at the same event in longview.

miranda lambert's store in lindale has max stalling coming up in a few weeks i think.

Sounds like a good one. Texas music wouldn't be what it is without the "twang" of bluegrass and swing.

Everyone has heard this one, The Front Porch Song


http://www.last.fm/music/Robert+Earl+Keen/...ront+Porch+Song

Nice version from The Live Album. Another bluegrass like song along with the normal Keen story telling is the "Bluegrass Widow" off the same album, I mean CD.

Here's one of the greatest Texas artists.....


http://www.myspace.com/willienelson

Casey Donahew and The Eli Young Band.

Casey Donahew and The Eli Young Band. Lots of good Texas music artists. Good to see folks carrying on Texas tradition. My days have come and gone , I mean mingling with the pretty Texas gals in the dance halls throughout Central Texas. What a great state!

Willie Nelson should be declared the modern day Father Of Texas...about thirty years ago! No need to say much more about Willie except his version of Amazing Grace with sister Bobbie at piano made a believer of me. Great tune by Willie and a true gospel gem.

Just listening to Reckless Kelly, Seven Nights In Eire. Whoa, good Celtic tune like.

http://www.last.fm/music/Reckless+Kelly/_/...+Nights+In+Eire

One more song for the Texas music archives by Cory Morrow.

Nashville Blues

http://www.last.fm/music/Cory+Morrow/_/Nashville+Blues

here's to miss emmylou, the boys from oklahoma, "robert keen, robert keen". willie is as good as it gets. never have worked up the courage to go to one of his picnics. what the heck happened to cory morrow? he was as big as pat. guess the drug bust hurt him alot more than people thought.

Robert Earl has some lyrics! I've seen him live a few times most notably at the Bass Hall! I lucked out
being there and of course REK was making some bucks on that venue. I could not pass a free pass so , hey,
it was something else , for anyone that likes REK! The band
did an acoustic at the end of the show and Robert Earl was taken in by the sound effects of this Bass Hall.

Wille Nelson. I saw Willie Nelson at the Rio Paslm Isle in Longview. I doubt that establishment is still there! (joking?)

I don't know anything about Cory Morrow's personal mistakes but I do like that CD he and Pat Green put out, Songs We Wish We Had Written.

Cory and Pat did a version of Waylon Jennings - Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way.

This was a unexpected find as the characters on this stage are those I recall:

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

you know i've been wondering what happened to the rio? if it was still open or had turned into a mexican club? there's a kid i went to school with at harmony who'll be opening up for roger creager at the electric cowboy this friday. curtis grimes - lonely river is the cd.

speaking of bluegrass, can this girl play or what........http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cg7WbEjhsU

"we were the fastest bluegrass band ever!" lol good bluegrass and western swing will never go out of style.

I hope you are right. I love Bluegrass and Western Swing!

the grascals
del mccoury
BOB WILLS
asleep at the wheel
alison krauss
dan tyminski

Blue Highway
Tony Rice Unit
Country Gentlemen
Nashville Bluegrass Band

I love the modern progressive style more than the old traditional......

This old porch is like a weathered grey haired seventy years of Texas

i've known a lot of old bulls and there work is never done.

heard they tore down the church.

Brandon Rhyder
Whiskey Myers
Aaron Watson
Randy Rogers band
Kevin Fowler
Jason Boland
Casey Donahew Band
Stoney Larue
Bart Crow Band

Brandon Rhyder will be at Clicks on July 30th. And if you like seeing Texas Country around here your best bet is Banita Creek in Nac. http://www.banitacreekhall.com/index.html