by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Ely spent his formative years from age 12 in Lubbock, Texas, and attended Monterey High School. He has had a genre-crossing career, performing with Bruce Springsteen, Uncle Tupelo, Los Super Seven, the Chieftains and James McMurtry in addition to his early work...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Roy Orbison was an Americansinger-songwriter, best known for his trademark sunglasses, distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country and western band in high school...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
A leading figure of the progressive country movement of the 1970s, singer/songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard remains best known for authoring the perennial anthem “Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother.” Born November 13, 1946, in Soper, Oklahoma, Hubbard and his...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Rose began writing songs with Taylor Swift on Swift’s 2006 self-titled debut album, on which Rose had seven co-writer’s credits. Among those cuts were the album’s first two singles, “Tim McGraw” and “Teardrops on My Guitar,”...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
In 1959, Mickey joined the Air Force and was assigned to England for three years. When he returned to the United States, he pursued his dream of being a songwriter. He lived in a ’54 Pontiac and traveled around Texas, Tennessee, and Louisiana playing gigs and working...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Kay Toinette Oslin was born in Crossett, Arkansas. Her father, a foreman at a paper mill, died when she was five years old. After his death, Oslin and her mother moved to Houston, Texas. Oslin attended Lon Morris College, where she majored in drama. She also performed...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
A master of writing number-one hits – 31 to be exact – Waldon, Texas, native Bob McDill has been no stranger to country and American pop music. His hits include “I’m Dancing As Fast As I Can,” “Shot Full of Love,” “Runaway Hearts” and “Falling in Love” by Juice...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Recognized as a musician, singer, songwriter, producer and actor, Houston native Billy F Gibbons has unquestionably established himself as one of the finest blues-rock guitarists to ever emerge from Texas. Gibbons has most notably served as guitarist and lead vocalist...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
A definitive Americana artist, Steve Earle, who grew up primarily in the San Antonio area, has turned many musical corners during his illustrious career. Equally acclaimed as a folk troubadour, rockabilly raver, bluesman, honky-tonk rounder and rocker, he has won...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Texas’ self-styled culture is unique in ways that are respected and envied around the world, and so is its songwriting. Virtually defining adult contemporary radio, San Antonio native Christopher Cross most notably won five Grammy Awards with his 1979 self-titled...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
There’s a photo on the back of a long-out-of-print Jerry Jeff Walker album that kind of sums it all up. In the picture, Jerry Jeff is outside an old roadhouse on a lonesome highway. It’s night, and his collar is turned up against the chill breeze as he...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Jim’s numerous hit singles are a great example of this consistency, quality and diversity. Jim’s hits include the multi week #1 smashes “Big Green Tractor” (Jason Aldean) “Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven” (Kenny Chesney) “ and “Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not” by...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
The late Larry Henley of Arp, Texas, first reached success as the lead singer of pop group Newbeats, charting two hits in the top 20 of Billboard magazine with one of the two, “Bread and Butter,” reaching No. 2 and selling over a million copies. Henley...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Born in Atlanta, Texas, Susanna Clark was an American artist and country/folk songwriter. She wrote the No. 1 hit “I’ll be Your San Antone Rose,” recorded first by artist Dottsy. She co-wrote “Come From the Heart,” which Don Williams...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Bruce first began singing and entertaining at local dances in his early teens in Texas, where he entered a recording studio to make a simple demonstration recording of a couple of new songs he had written. At the last minute, he substituted a brand new song he had...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
To say he has led a full life would be life’s greatest understatement. It hasn’t always been pretty, but it has always been real. It didn’t take Willie long to go from unknown songwriter in Nashville in the 60’s to outlaw in the 70’s, to...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
By his teen years, Bruton and his buddy T Bone Burnett were laying down tracks in Burnett’s makeshift home studio in between gigging with other pals like Delbert McClinton, all the while digging on musical giants like Freddie King and Ornette Coleman, who could be...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
He wrote four songs for George Strait’s 1985 album Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind, which received the Album of the Year honors from the CMA and the ACM. In 1987, All My Ex’s Live In Texas written with his wife at the time, Lyndia Shafer, also became a #1 hit...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
Inspired by another Lubbock boy, Buddy Holly, Mac formed a band of his own while in college, and moonlighted playing fraternity parties, high school hops, and local clubs around Atlanta. He also worked for the Georgia State Board of Probation and later continued his...
by Armada Digital | Feb 5, 2021
To date, Black has written, recorded and released more than 100 songs, a benchmark in any artist’s career. Black’s continued success can be attributed in part to his deep sense of country music history, and his humble gratitude in being an important part...
