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MCOT: Singers and Songs of West Texas

Larry Trider album
Larry Trider album

Weekly Main Feature: This week on the Music Crossroads of Texas, your host, Curtis Peoples, will play music from West Texas singers and songwriters. 

Women of West Texas Music: This week we feature and interview and music form Gypsy Jane.

West Texas Music Standards: This week’s music standard is Andy Wilkinson

West Texas Live Shots: Music from Butch Hancock’s Firewater album, recorded in 1980.

Crossroads of Music Archive Spotlight: A recording of Larry Trider’s House of Blues scheduled for release later this month from Nor Va Jak.

What’s New in West Texas Music: Jim Dixon

Playlist from the Week

1. “Dust Devil” – Graham Warwick & the Bona Fide Blues Band
2. “Guitar in the Bathtub” – Zoe Carter
3. “Dancin’ to the Rhythm of Love” – Cary Banks
4. “My Love (The Storm)” – Amanda Shires
5. “Good Ol’ Sunday Morning” – Cary Swinney
6. “West Texas Panhandle Girl” – Danny Cadra
7. “(I Can’t) Sleep Through This” – Derek Bohl
8. “Dying Day” – Phillip Coggins
9. “Intro (Rattlesnake Caravan)” – Gypsy Jayne & the Travelers
10. “Stars” – Gypsy Jayne & the Travelers
11. “If You Were A Bluebird” – Butch Hancock
12. “House of the Blues” – Larry Trider
13. “Dollars for December” – Andy Wilkinson
14. “Snowin’ Again in Lubbock” – Andy Wilkinson

Curtis Peoples, Ph.D., is the Archivist for the Southwest Music Archive and oversees the Crossroads Recording Studio for the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University. He is a musician who has worked in the music business for four decades, numerous recording studios, and has been a production manager for many events. Dr. Peoples teaches regional music history classes and American media studies; his research centers on music and place.