What is Texas music?
Texas music is Buddy Holly and Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bob Wills and Willie Nelson, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Norah Jones, Freddie Fender and Selena, even Leopold Stokowski and the Miró String Quartet. Texas music is rock 'n roll and blues, polka and conjunto, norteño, swing and honky-tonk, bluegrass, torch songs and grand opera. It's unknown fiddlers and pianists and guitarists and the many cultures that have made up the Texan people. It's singers into politics and singers who won't touch politics. It's a lot of difference and a distinct similarity among those who live to make music. This Web site is a collection of interviews with people in Austin today who work at making a living through music. Read more about Texas music >>