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Ten Great Texans
Aug 4^th, 2009 at 7:40pm

August 3rd, 2009 at 2:02 PM

10 Great Texas Artists

http://blog.limewire.com/posts/23485-10-great-texas-artists/

Give me a “T” for Texas. The Lone Star State talks big and delivers big in its myths and music. From Abilene to Amarillo, El Paso to Galveston, here are 10 great artists who hail from Texas, which isn’t so much a State but state of mind.

1. Buddy Holly
In Holly’s too-short life, he perfected the art of three-chord guitar rock and influenced generations of songwriters to come. Recommended album: Buddy Holly

2. Stevie Ray Vaughan
Another Texas tragedy. Stevie Ray burst onto the popular music scene in 1983 with his debut album, Texas Flood. This new guitar hero took the blues and played them with an energy and charisma that hadn’t been seen since Jimi Hendrix. His death in 1990 left a hole still unfilled.
Recommended album: The Sky Is Crying

3. ZZ Top
Two bearded guitarists, a beard-less drummer named Beard, and good ‘ol Texas boogie-rock took this trio from the Houston barrooms to the top of MTV airplay in the early ’80s.
Recommended album: Tres Hombres

4. Willie Nelson
Nelson has straddled the fence between rock, country, reggae, swing and other music genres so successfully that he appears incapable of doing wrong. Nelson can cover nat King Cole, Jimmy Cliff or Bob Wills with ease, cracking the songs open like an egg with his ragged voice and phrasing.
Recommended album: The IRS Tapes: Who’ll Buy My Memories?

5. Edgar Winter
The talented multi-instrumentalist brought “Frankenstein” to the stage, with its whirl of keyboard effects and heavy riff, and invited us all along to take a “Free Ride.”
Recommended album: Edgar Winter’s White Trash

6. Roy Orbison
Orbison had a voice descended directly from heaven. Whether he was singing about a pretty woman, “Crying” or traveling with his Wilbury kin, Orbison’s one-of-a-kind vocals made some of the most effective and affecting music ever recorded.
Recommended album: Cry Softly, Lonely One

7. Flatlanders
The lonesome West Texas plains inspired the early 1970’s music by three then-unknown songwriters—Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely and Butch Hancock. The self-effacing debut, More A Legend Than A Band, showcased Gilmore’s high, pining drawl and the best music ever played on a saw.
Recommended album: More A Legend Than A Band

8. Janis Joplin
Joplin’s blistering, booze-soaked vocals turned tracks such as “Piece Of My Heart” into transcendent trips requiring no further mind alterations. Probably the greatest female rock singer ever.
Recommended album: Pearl

9. Butthole Surfers
What’s in a name? In the case of Butthole Surfers, everything! The bizarre rock/punk/noise meddlings of the Surfers on “The Shah Sleeps In Lee Harvey’s Grave” and “Sweat Loaf” could only come from crazed genius.
Recommended album: Locust Abortion Technician

10. Michael Nesmith
Much more than just a member of The Monkees, Nesmith is one of the most under-appreciated songwriters of the 1970s. His talent was too big for the made-for-TV act, and he finally fled for the burgeoning fields of country-rock where his muse could sing truly.
Recommended album: And The Hits Just Keep On Comin’

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Ten Thousand Motels Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 1,797 Gender:	Re: Ten Great Texans Reply #2 - Aug 4^th, 2009 at 7:47pm Edith Grove wrote on Aug 4^th, 2009 at 7:44pm: How could Kinky Friedman be left out of this list ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinky_Friedman And Walker....Texas Ranger. I mean he did sing his own theme song.
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Edith Grove Agent Provocateur Offline Disco STILL sucks! Posts: 12,336 New Orleans Gender:	Re: Ten Great Texans Reply #4 - Aug 4^th, 2009 at 8:27pm Paranoid Android wrote on Aug 4^th, 2009 at 8:23pm: For better or worse...Mike Nesmith also "Invented" MTV And his mom invented Liquid Paper, but I's never be makin' mistakes, so I's ain't never got no need fo' it.
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Wyman Knows Best Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 3 Gender:	Re: Ten Great Texans Reply #6 - Aug 4^th, 2009 at 10:36pm Earl Campbell should have been on that list.
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corgi37 Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 1,559 Aussie land Gender:	Re: Ten Great Texans Reply #7 - Aug 5^th, 2009 at 5:11am Penthouse playmate and xxx porn star Chloe Jones (RIP) should be #1.
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Nellcote Rocks Off Regular Offline So, what's your point? Posts: 2,920 Funifuti	Re: Ten Great Texans Reply #8 - Aug 5^th, 2009 at 5:38am List the Flatlanders & no Freddie King? Include Edgar Winter & not Johnny Winter? This list is flawed beyond belief.
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Re: Ten Great Texans
Reply #9 - Aug 5^th, 2009 at 5:55am

Nellcote wrote on Aug 5^th, 2009 at 5:38am:

List the Flatlanders & no Freddie King?
Include Edgar Winter & not Johnny Winter?

This list is flawed beyond belief.

No disrespect to Mike Nesmith, but I'd say Townes Van Zandt is light years ahead of him in the song writing department.

And I had never heard of Chloe Jones.............so I had to google.
http://images15.fotki.com/v11/photos/7/740487/2679053/040_DeathSCP1200Chloe_Jone...

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Edith Grove Agent Provocateur Offline Disco STILL sucks! Posts: 12,336 New Orleans Gender:	Re: Ten Great Texans Reply #11 - Aug 5^th, 2009 at 6:57am Let's not forget Nanci. http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s209/leepullen/ng_flyer.gift=1249473359 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanci_Griffith
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Gazza Unholy Trinity Admin Offline Rat Bastid "We piss anywhere, man.." Posts: 13,218 Belfast, UK Gender:	Re: Ten Great Texans Reply #12 - Aug 5^th, 2009 at 8:38am The Flatlanders are excellent, but Joe Ely deserves a mention on his own. Recommended album : Love and Danger (1992)
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Joey I Have No Life! Online Posts: 20,269 Omaha , NE Gender:	Re: Ten Great Texans Reply #13 - Aug 5^th, 2009 at 8:41am " This list is flawed beyond belief. I do not agree with all those selections as not everyone from texas is cool " < ----- ...or THIS dude !!!!!! :
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Pdog Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 6,123 aTx Gender:	Re: Ten Great Texans Reply #15 - Aug 5^th, 2009 at 8:52pm Me the butthole surfers that dude who walked ten miles with a battery Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme roky erikson every illegal mexican jenna bush the riverboat gamblers me the girl at HEB who bags my groceries and crushes my bread
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Edith Grove Agent Provocateur Offline Disco STILL sucks! Posts: 12,336 New Orleans Gender:	Re: Ten Great Texans Reply #16 - Aug 5^th, 2009 at 8:53pm You heard Squeaky's getting out ?
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Sioux Rocks Off Regular Offline Brian Jones---Foundation Stone--Golden Stone Posts: 4,176 Virginia, U.S.A. Gender:	Re: Ten Great Texans Reply #17 - Aug 5^th, 2009 at 9:00pm Yep. After 30 years.
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Factory Girl Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 2,194 US Gender:	Re: Ten Great Texans Reply #22 - Aug 8^th, 2009 at 4:02pm JOHNNNY WINTER is from Beaumont, Texas. Enough said. Btw, I didn't know Chloe Jones was from Texas. What a pretty girl, so sad her life got wasted.
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mojoman Rocks Off Regular Offline HMERLS Posts: 6,528 joyzee Gender:	Re: Ten Great Texans Reply #23 - Aug 8^th, 2009 at 4:05pm Factory Girl wrote on Aug 8^th, 2009 at 4:02pm: JOHNNNY WINTER is from Beaumont, Texas. Enough said. Btw, I didn't know Chloe Jones was from Texas. What a pretty girl, so sad her life got wasted. I would like to baste you in milk for 48 hours, hog-tie you and let hungry baby lambs skeletonize your quivering, quaking carcass
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Factory Girl Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 2,194 US Gender:	Re: Ten Great Texans Reply #24 - Aug 8^th, 2009 at 4:10pm [/quote] I would like to baste you in milk for 48 hours, hog-tie you and let hungry baby lambs skeletonize your quivering, quaking carcass [/quote] Is that you coming on? Just checking the facts....
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