Texas Hall of Fame
Janis Joplin: The thorny rose of Texas who never found her way home. The first and last great Snuff Queen of rock. With Big Brother & the Holding Company, helped put San Francisco (and subsequently Texas) back on the musical map. Doug Sahm: With the Sir Douglas Quintet, was Texas' first long-haired rocker.
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Texas Hall of Fame
Janis Joplin: The thorny rose of Texas who never found her way home. The first and last great Snuff Queen of rock. With Big Brother & the Holding Company, helped put San Francisco (and subsequently Texas) back on the musical map.
Doug Sahm: With the Sir Douglas Quintet, was Texas' first longhaired rocker. Some stormy San Francisco sidetrips have led him back to the Lone Star State, where he's doing his best to live up to the legend, be it in .rock, country or blues.
T. Bone Walker: First of the great electric blues guitarists. The very first to utilize electric guitar, ,n 1953.
The 13th Floor Elevators: Acid always warped the local cultures according to their own indigenous peculiarities, and Texas was no exception. A sagebrush MC5, or Blue Cheer at least. LS Double entendre raised to .new artform in lyrics..
George Jones: Possibly country ■music's greatest living singer, with over 125 LPs to' his credit. Certainly the most imitated maie country singer. His^marriage to Tammy Wynette 'didn't hurt,, either.
Kinky Friedman & his Texas Jewboys: Sickie yukyuks hit the Lone Star point blank, Nobody that sings about "mainlinrng-guacamole" can be less than half porked on Lone Star Beer (regional fave) and hence a prince.
Steve Miller: Like Janis,-helped’ pioneer the. San Francisco boom, and has been One of the./few to survive it intact. Thought to have been swallowed up in the^early Seventies, shocked everybody by hitting the top with ^'The Joker."
Johnny & Edgar Winter: Albino blues flash with something extra. Johnny was the. one who was hollered about, and it took awhile for his techno-amphetamine talent to be heard above the din. Edgar, meanwhile, slipped in,the back door, and through persistence has eclipsed his' brother's.considerable accomplishments.
Bobby Blue Bland: Invented a new school of smooth blues. One of the best-kept secrets Of soul music, but finally on his way now with a major labelpush.
Lyndon Baines Johnson: Or, as he1 was” known to us common folk who knew him as a friend, LBJ. A man in the finest Texas macho tradition; the Joe Don Baker of Lis day, God love 'im.
Willie. Nelson: Beloved by everyone from University of Texas f Opt ball cbach Darrel Royal to Leon Russell. Intepsely depressing songs and world-weary voice have contributed dozens of country and western classics.
Ernest Tubb: Introduced electric guitar and drums to country music in order to be heard above the jukebox in Texas honky-tonks where he and his band played.
Bob Wills: 10 minutes after he completed his last album, he passed out and has been in a coma ever since. Son of a/long line Of championship fiddlers. Fused swing, jazz and hoedown tunes to invent a whole new style of country music with western swing.
Boz Scaggs: Was as much a mover in the^original Steve Miller Band as Miller himself, and went solo just to prove it. Subsequent efforts have won himva respectable following, but lie still pales in Miller's shadow.
Tracy Nelson: Heralded as "another Janis Joplin" in the early days with Mother Earth, but lacked the flamboyance to make such claims ring true. But she's got a voice, and that's always been enough... barely.
