Sweet Mother Texas Waylon Jennings' title='Sweet Mother Texas Waylon Jennings' />TEXANS Texas without Texans is like Antarctica without penguins in both cases the landscape would be barren without them. Texans just happen to be a lot. Sign in now to see your channels and recommendations Sign in. Watch Queue Queue. Note All of the songs on this page were optimized to be played on a Soundblaster AWE sound card with the GS soundfont bank selected. They should still sound. Our collection of Texas Honky Tonk Legends. This collection features legends, up to and including Willie Nelson, of the Texas Honky Tonks. Opvkst i Texas 19371958. Jennings voksede op p landet i Littlefield i det vestlige Texas. Trods beskedne kr fik Jennings mulighed for at lre sig selv at. Honky Tonk Texas, USA Honky Tonk Legends. There are no words adequate enough to express the profound sorrow all of Champ Hoods friends, family, and fans feel to. He is gone from. this earth but there is a part inside each of us where he lives. Dynascape Software. We will always miss Champ every single day until. Darlinwritten by Blaze Foley. Oh darlin, oh darlin. Way over yonder and Im alone. I need you oh I need you. To come back home come back home. Every morning every morning. Reach out for you I reach out for you. But youre not there no youre not there. What shall I do, what shall I do What shall I do Nights are lonely yeah nights are lonely. All by myself all by myself. Want you only want you only. Nobody else nobody else. Come back to me come back to me. Its been too long its been too long. Got to soothe me come and soothe me. Come hear my song come hear my song. Lets hear that song Oh darlin, oh darlin. Way over yonder and Im alone. Oh darlin, oh darlin. Come and hear my song come and hear my song. Oh darlin, oh darlin. Way over yonder and Im alone. Oh darlin, oh darlin. Come and hear my song come and hear my song. Champ wrote, I live upon a high hill, work my hands in wire and wood and I sing. I die. If you love me then, you know I would not mind. Champ, consider it done. Warren Hood, 1. 04. Rawhide Trail, Austin 7. The 1. 00 Best Texas Songs. By. Jeff Mc. Cordand. John Morthland. April 2. LETS BACK UP FOR A SECOND. Before you pore over our picks for the best Texas songs, youll probably want to know about the methodology behind the list, starting with how we define a Texas song. No easy task, that. If you consider that everything from blues to conjunto to jazz to R B to rock and roll has been made here, the meaning of that phrase can be as expansive as the state itself. Thats fine with us. Rather than limiting ourselves to songs that are about Texas, we defined a Texas song as any song performed by a Texas artist. Who qualified Anyone who was born here, even if he or she left the state while still in diapers. As for the non natives, they needed to have spent a good part of their career inside the state lines, and their songs had to be a product of their time here or related in some way to the state. Okay, so what do we mean by song The word is a bit misleading in fact, we included the best recordings of songs, from 7. For the purposes of our list, we chose to rank only the top forty dont forget that the radio format of the same name began in Texas. The remaining sixty are alphabetized, a decision that eliminated the prolongedand fruitlessdebate over whether, say, George Straits Amarillo by Morning should be number 8. To generate the list, we contacted twenty outside expertswriters, editors, and deejays with an array of tastesand asked them to send their thirty favorites per our guidelines. Their responses, combined with our own lists, brought us to some consensus, but we still had more than four hundred songs. So the two of us whittled them down by asking ourselves a few more questions Was the song inherently Texan, either in style or in subject matterWas it a big enough hit to become a part of the vernacular Did it stand the test of time But this was never about scientific method it was about music. Choosing the best was a subjective process, and sometimes we went on gut feeling. The result is a list that reflects everything great about Texas music, from turn of the century pop to nineties rap. Some of our choices should surprise and delight you, and some of our inclusions and omissions will cause you to groan. Thats also fine with us. Few countries can boast such an amazing and diverse legacy, and one reason is that Texans are passionate about music. So get riled up if you have to, and have fun. We sure did. 1. Sir Douglas QuintetShes About a MoverIf anything, the song sounds more audacious now than it did when it first shot to number thirteen on the national charts in 1. British Invasion. First, youve got that two step rhythmalways common in regional Tex Mex, country, and Cajun zydeco but not in rock and roll, not then or now. Then youve got those maniacal dit dit dit dits from organ jockey Augie Meyers he claims he owned the first Vox in the nation, which supposedly provided the English vibe, but the way he used it mainly served to make a direct connection with Tex Mex accordion. Finally, theres Doug Sahms great, and always underappreciated, rock vocalshard and fast, with a Little Richard like intensity, but also still melodicand his delightfully cockeyed lyrics and title. Which make more sense, actually, if you know that the song was originally called Shes a Body Mover, an offhand comment Sahm had made about a girl dirty dancing at one of his shows. But whats most amazing is that a giddier and less worldly rock audience back then actually bought manager producer Huey P. Meauxs hype that this racially mixed group white and brown was the newest sensation from England. That ruse lasted only until the heavily accented musicians first opened their mouths in public for any purpose except singingyet the song endures. And the reason is that sound. You could say that it couldnt possibly have come from nowhar else but Texas, but even thats a little vague Shes About a Mover couldnt possibly have come from nowhar else but San Antone. Bob Wills and His Texas PlayboysNew San Antonio RoseThe King of Western Swings all time best seller is also a great example of his particular genius If a more conventional big band had cut this, it would have been considered a pop record. When Wacos Playboys recorded San Antonio Rose as an instrumental, in 1. When Wills added lyrics and cut the new version nearly two years later, he kept nothing but the original, traditional melody the song was all reeds and brass, like any other big band swing record of the day. The music was upbeat and happy, while Tommy Duncans vocals mourned a loss he just couldnt shake Moon in all your splendorKnown only to my heartCall back my roseRose of San Antone. And dancers knew exactly what this meant, because nobody made feeling bad feel better than these guys. Buddy Holly and the CricketsThatll Be the DayWhere all the bravado came from is anybodys guess. Even by 1. 95. 7 standards, this Lubbock teen looked, well, like a geek. But there was no denying the song Holly and his band, the Crickets, rolled out from Norman Pettys Clovis, New Mexico, studio onto the national stage. Thatll Be the Day borrowed its title from the catchphrase of John Waynes character in The Searchers and boasted a swagger worthy of the Duke. You say youre gonna leave, Holly taunts. You know its a lie causeThatll be the day when I die. Musically, with pounding drums and precision studio guitar and vocal work, its innovations werent confined to it being a rock and roll recording. Day kicked off what would prove to be an enduring body of work. Unfortunately, Holly had an all too short eighteen months left. Willie NelsonBlue Eyes Crying in the RainWith one spare, simple, acoustic ballad, Nelson established the mid seventies outlaw movement and took country music back from the Nashville hacks. Successful as a songwriter but stymied as an artist, Willie fled Music City for his native Texas in 1. Red Headed Stranger, which was so out of step with prevailing sounds that his label first dismissed it as a bunch of demos it didnt want to release. The bloody song cycle about murder, revenge, and redemption in the Old West was tempered by this sweetly sentimental single. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain, like the rest of the album, was as full of wide open space as West Texas itself. Those spaces proved to be the silence heard round the world. Archie Bell and the DrellsTighten UpHas there ever been a greater party recordWith a snake of a bass line, syncopated guitar, and Bells immortal intro, this 1. Hi, everybody Im Archie Bell and the Drells, of Houston, Texas. He did have a band. We just thought of a new dance called the Tighten Up. And then, just to be sure you got it, This is the music we tighten up with. Bell yells entrance cues like a sideline coach. Now make it mellow he shouts, as a horn coda takes everything downfor two bars. The band comes back full bore, Bell now singing among the horns theres clapping, shouting. On it goes, never deviating from the same cheesy riff, for two minutes and thirty seconds of joyous abandon. Bobby Fuller FourI Fought the LawIn which four tuff and tender guys from El Paso provide a bridge from path breaking fifties rock and roll to mind blowing sixties rock.