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For the third week of March (3/15): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a blues legend who also made some of the first know...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the second week of March (3/13): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a migrant farmworker who helped revolutionize conj...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the fourth week of January (1/27): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a pioneering trumpeter who performed with some o...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the third week of January (1/16): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a pioneering female R&B artist who is a triple th...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the last week of December (12/30): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at folk songwriter who became a somewhat reluctant ...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the second week of December (12/11): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a talented Texan who could sing, dance and mag...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
The blues melded with jazz long before the first recordings in the late teens. Although the music was, at least at first, structured on the 8 and 1...
- Added: Jul 31, 2012
- Length: 58:54
For the first week of July (7/4): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a songwriter who entertained audiences in European ca...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the second week of August (8/9): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a pioneer of barrelhouse piano who started his car...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the third week of July (7/17): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a singer who had a minty fresh moniker.
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the second week of October (10/10): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a popular artist who stopped making records in ...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:50
For the fourth week of May (5/23): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a record label that was a real feather in the cap of...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the fourth week of November (11/22): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an artist who could really sink his teeth into...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:41
For the first week of April (4/4): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a West Texas wild man who contributed to both 1950s ...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:39
For the third week of February (2/16): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at about a world renowned musician who chose to mak...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:31
For the fourth week of January (1/24): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at one of the most successful yet least well-known ...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:41
For the second week of December (12/14): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a woman who used music to break down the barri...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the last week of October (10/30): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a woman who wrote the state’s first known English...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the fourth week of August (8/27): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musical icon who once sold soda bottles in orde...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:57
For the third week of July (7/16): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musician who proved that it’s not such a small wor...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the third week of June (6/25): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a man who helped blend Texas and Louisiana music int...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:42
For the third week of May(5/18): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musician who was turned down by a number of night cl...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:42
For the third week of July(7/17): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a child prodigy who helped launch one of the state’s ...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
Shining shoes to music publishing in a few short years. To Clarence Williams it may have seen much longer. By 1910, he was considered a leading s...
- Added: Jul 26, 2012
- Length: 58:57
The origin of his nickname is disputed. Regardless of the reasons, Francis Joseph Julian Spanier was simply known as Muggsy. Before Bix Beiderbeck...
- Added: Jul 12, 2012
- Length: 58:59
