Farming | Music Crossroads of Texas

KTTZ | By Rachel Boyd

Published August 30, 2020 at 8:00 AM CDT

Join us for this edition of Music Crossroads of Texas, as host Curtis Peoples explores songs about farming and the west Texas staple crop, cotton.

Tracks

Cotton Rag (1952) - Wally Moyers, Sr.
Dry Land Farm - Butch Hancock
Boll Weevil - Andy Hedges
Farm Road 40 - Maines Brothers
Loyd's Country Store - Andy and Andy
The John Deer Tractor Song - Don Walser
Strippin' Cotton - Doug Smith
The Cotton Farmers Wife - Four Stories Tall
Cotton Rows - Katie Howell
Tillers Flight O the Farmers Delight - Wade Parks
Dollar for December - Andy Wilkinson
FFA - Terry Allen
Flatland Farmer - Terry Allen
Cotton Picking - Wally Moyers, Sr.

Music

Curtis Peoples

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.

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