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MCOT: Women of West Texas

Curtis Peoples with Honeyhouse at Rockin Box 33 house concert where he interviewed the group.
Courtesy of Curtis Peoples.
Curtis Peoples with Honeyhouse at Rockin Box 33 house concert where he interviewed the group.

This week on the Music Crossroads of Texas, your host Curtis Peoples is devoting the entire show to the Women of West Texas music. Listeners will get to hear a variety of music spanning seven decades of Women of West Texas Music.

West Texas Music Standards: This week’s feature is Kimmie Rhodes.

West Texas Live Shots: Live music from the new Honeyhouse record, Raw Honey.

Crossroads of Music Archive Spotlight: This week’s "from the archive" is a 45rpm on the Texas Soul Label. Reaching number 43 on the billboard country chart in 1979, here is Terri Sue Newman with “Gypsy Eyes.”

What’s New in West Texas Music: From the 2017 “Lubbock Music Now” CD, Lindsay Boreing singing “I’m Your Home.”

Featured Songs

1. “Shake a Leg” – Margaret Lewis
2. “Quicksand” – Jo Carol Pierce
3. “Negrua” – Traci Lamar Hancock
4. “Baby baby baby” – Charlene Hancock
5. “Feet on the Ground” – Conni Hancock
6. “The Way it Dimmed” – Amanda Shires
7. “Wear You Thin” – Tori Vasquez
8. “At Last” – Les Sawyer
9. “I Knew” – Tori Atcheson
10. “I Can Be Your Everything” – Gypsy Jane & the Travelers
11. “Free Whiskey” – Jenni Dale Lord
12. “Trained” – Natalie Maines
13. “Fearless” – Honeyhouse ( Live album: Raw Honey)
14. “Gypsy Eyes” – Terri Sue Newman
15. “I am Falling” – Kimmie Rhodes
16. “I’m Your Home” – Lindsay Boreing

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.