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Music Crossroads of Texas: Music of West TX (Part 2)

Texana Dames Album
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Texana Dames Album

This week on the Music Crossroads of Texas we will wrap up this look at some of the songs about cities and town in West Texas.

  Three of this week’s recurring segments focus on the Tommy and Charlene Hancock Family.

  Women of West Texas Music: This week’s feature is the Texana Dames.

  West Texas Music Standards: This week’s West Texas Music Standard is Tommy X Hancock.

  West Texas Live Shots: Music from one of the Texana Dames live album featuring songs from one CD of their Months and Months of Sundays CD releases.

  Crossroads of Music Archive Spotlight: The only know existing copy of an all-night gospel music singing in Jones Stadium on the Texas Tech campus hosted by Odis “Pop” Echols, et al., ca. 1950.

  What’s New in West Texas Music: Sittin’ Around Pickin' - Cary and Steve (Cary C. Banks/Steve Williams) from the 2017 “Lubbock Music Now” CD.

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.