"for the construction of a new performing arts center, the Buddy Holly Hall of Arts and Sciences, a downtown $153 million project expected to be completed in late 2019. Holly Hall will also have concession sites and a bistro with both outdoor and indoor dining. United Supermarkets has been named the food and beverage provider. Thus far, the private group, the Lubbock Entertainment and Performing Arts Association, has raised or received pledges in the amount of $93 million. The Lubbock Independent School District and Ballet Lubbock also support the project. Lubbock is the birthplace of Morris Mac Davis (born January"
"the 1980s and 1990s, and currently (Fall 2009) showing his photographs and drawings at Bluebird Gallery in Wimberley, Texas. Interviews with Butch Hancock, Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore along with many others of the so-called Lubbock Mafia appear in the film: ""Lubbock Lights"" which was released in 2005. Trivia: The album titles ""Own & Own"" and ""Own the way over here"" are making use of a play on words, ""own"" being a Texan dialectical pronunciation of the word ""on"". Butch Hancock Butch Hancock (born July 12, 1945 in Lubbock, Texas), is a country/folk music recording artist and songwriter. Hancock"
"died in a car crash in 1978. In 1994, Johnson was inducted into the Buddy Holly West Texas Walk of Fame, renamed in 2006 as the West Texas Hall of Fame, located at 1824 Crickets Ave. in Lubbock, across from the Buddy Holly Center. Over the weekend of March 15, 2008, Johnson and another KDAV deejay, Bud Andrews, were featured on Bob Phillips' ""Texas Country Reporter"" syndicated television program. In 2008, he was listed among the ""100 Most Influential People"" from Lubbock, as part of the city centennial observation. Virgil Johnson (singer) Virgil Lewis Johnson (December 29, 1935 February 24,"
"21, 1942), who graduated at the age of 16 from Lubbock High School and became a country music singer, songwriter, and actor with crossover success. His early work writing for Elvis Presley produced the hits """", ""In the Ghetto"", and ""A Little Less Conversation"". A subsequent solo career in the 1970s produced hits, such as ""Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me"", making him a well-known name in popular music. He also starred in his own variety show, a Broadway musical, and various films and television programs. Outsider musician and psychobilly pioneer The Legendary Stardust Cowboy was also born in Lubbock."
"Blake Kirbo The city is also the birthplace of actor Chace Crawford (""The Covenant"", ""Gossip Girl""), Singer Travis Garland of the band NLT, musician, writer, composer, singer, producer, and LGBT activist Logan Lynn, artist Joshua Meyer, and political activist William John Cox (Billy Jack Cox) Public speaker and televangelist Kenneth Copeland was born in Lubbock. Lubbock is the home of the historians Alwyn Barr, Dan Flores, Allan J. Kuethe, Paul H. Carlson, and Ernest Wallace. Bidal Aguero, a civil-rights activist in Lubbock, was the publisher of the longest-running Hispanic newspaper in Texas. Author Micah Wright was born in Lubbock. Gabor"
"Cajun influences. Ernest Tubb and his country song ""Walking the Floor Over You"" set the stage for the rise of stars like Lefty Frizzell and Johnny Horton. Ponty Bone, Joe Ely, Lloyd Maines, Butch Hancock, Terry Allen, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Jay Boy Adams, and Tommy Hancock, among others, helped invent the 1960s Lubbock sound, based out of Lubbock, Texas. Mac Davis is a singer and songwriter from Lubbock who became one of the most successful country singers of the 1970s and 1980s. Outlaw country is another offshoot that has its roots in Texas, with Texans like Waylon Jennings, Jerry Jeff"
"Smokin' Joe Kubek Smokin' Joe Kubek (November 30, 1956 – October 11, 2015) was an American Texas blues electric guitarist, songwriter and performer. Born in Grove City, Pennsylvania, Kubek grew up in the Dallas, Texas area. In the 1970s during his teen years, he played with the likes of Freddie King and in the 1980s began performing with Louisiana-born musician and vocalist, Bnois King. In 1985, Kubek released his first record on Bird Records, a 45 RPM single with the tracks ""Driving Sideways"" (written by Freddie King and Sonny Thompson) and ""Other Side Of Love"" (written by Doyle Bramhall Sr.)."
"in the 1950s. He was followed by Buddy Knox, Bobby Fuller, and Dallas rockabilly stars Gene Summers, Johnny Carroll, and Ronnie Dawson. Southern soul singer Joe Tex was born in Rogers, Texas. The 1960s witnessed many influential rock artists such as Janis Joplin, from Port Arthur; she is ranked #46 on ""Rolling Stone"" magazine's 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Doug Sahm's Sir Douglas Quintet released several influential performances, as did psychedelic rock underground legends 13th Floor Elevators, led by Roky Erickson. Garage rock band The Heart Beats, formed in 1966, were based in Lubbock. The"
"of 58. Smokin' Joe Kubek Smokin' Joe Kubek (November 30, 1956 – October 11, 2015) was an American Texas blues electric guitarist, songwriter and performer. Born in Grove City, Pennsylvania, Kubek grew up in the Dallas, Texas area. In the 1970s during his teen years, he played with the likes of Freddie King and in the 1980s began performing with Louisiana-born musician and vocalist, Bnois King. In 1985, Kubek released his first record on Bird Records, a 45 RPM single with the tracks ""Driving Sideways"" (written by Freddie King and Sonny Thompson) and ""Other Side Of Love"" (written by Doyle"
"""Walking the Floor Over You"". The Ernest Tubb Record Store, founded in 1947, is still in operation in Nashville. Ernest Tubb Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, ""Walking the Floor Over You"" (1941), marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music. In 1948, he was the first singer to record a hit version of Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson's ""Blue Christmas"", a song more commonly associated with Elvis Presley and"
"Texas Ruby Ruby Agnes Owens (June 4, 1908 – March 29, 1963), professionally better known as Ruby Texas, was a pioneering country music female vocalist and musician of the late 1930s through to the early 1960s. Ruby was born on a ranch in Wise County, Texas, near Decatur. When she was three years old she started to sing, often together with her two brothers. Her career began when a radio station owner in Kansas City radio station heard her sing in Fort Worth, Texas. In early 1937, she made her debut recording for Decca Records. Later that year, she met"
"Ernest Tubb Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, ""Walking the Floor Over You"" (1941), marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music. In 1948, he was the first singer to record a hit version of Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson's ""Blue Christmas"", a song more commonly associated with Elvis Presley and his late-1950s version. Another well-known Tubb hit was ""Waltz Across Texas"" (1965) (written by his nephew Quanah Talmadge Tubb,"
"Lubbock (On Everything) Lubbock (On Everything) is a 1979 double album by Texas singer, songwriter and piano player Terry Allen, released on Fate Records. It was reissued on compact disc in 1995 by Sugar Hill Records. and reissued again on CD and LP in October 2016 by Paradise of Bachelors. The 2016 LP reissue comes with a high quality 28 page LP booklet. It was recorded in 1978 at Caldwell Studios in Lubbock, Texas, and was engineered and mastered by Don Caldwell and Lloyd Maines, who also played pedal steel and other instruments on the record. ""Amarillo Highway"" was later"
"Libby Roderick Libby Roderick (born 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, recording artist, poet, activist, and teacher. The global impact of her song ""How Could Anyone"" has been featured on CNN, on CBS, and in the Associated Press. Her music has been featured at the U.N. Conference on Women, with Coretta Scott King and Walter Cronkite in Washington D.C., and played on Mars by NASA. She has toured extensively throughout North America, playing at folk venues, conferences, and universities. She was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska where she still lives part of the time. Her father, John ""Jack"" Roderick,"
"Louise Massey Louise Massey (born ""Victoria Louise Massey""; 10 August 1902 – 20 June 1983 in San Angelo, Texas), American singer and songwriter born in Midland, Texas. The Massey family left Texas while Louise Massey was very young and she grew up near Roswell in Lincoln County, New Mexico. In 1918, Louise's father, Henry Massey, started a band that featured himself and three of his eight children singing and playing musical instruments. Most of the children played were able to play several instruments while dressed in “elaborate cowboy outfits as their stage attire,” Louise played piano and sang. The Massey’s"
"Louise Tobin Mary Louise Tobin (born November 11, 1918 in Aubrey, Texas) is an American singer. She appeared with Benny Goodman, Bobby Hackett, Will Bradley, and Jack Jenney. Tobin introduced ""I Didn't Know What Time It Was"" with Benny Goodman’s band in 1939. Her biggest hit with Goodman was ""There'll Be Some Changes Made"", which was number two on the ""Hit Parade"" in 1941 for 15 weeks. Tobin was the first wife of trumpeter and bandleader Harry James, with who she had two sons. In 1932 Tobin won a CBS Radio Talent Contest and, after touring with society dance orchestras"
"Tommy Hancock Thomas O. Hancock (Tommy X. Hancock) (born March 25, 1929) is widely regarded as the godfather of West Texas music. Born and raised in Lubbock, Texas, Hancock's grandmother had him classically trained in violin. At age 16, Tommy joined the military and traveled overseas as a paratrooper and military policeman, serving in the Pacific towards the end of World War Two. Upon his discharge at the end of the war, he returned to Lubbock, where he led a popular swing band called the ""Roadside Playboys."" The Playboys had various members over time, including performers such as guitarist Sonny"
"Texas. To date, the Foundation has awarded more than 280 scholarships totaling over a quarter of a million dollars. Vikki Carr Vikki Carr (born Florencia Bisenta de Casillas-Martinez Cardona, July 19, 1941) is an American vocalist who has had a singing career for over four decades. Originally from El Paso, Texas, born to parents of Mexican ancestry, she has performed in a variety of musical genres, including pop, jazz and country, while her greatest success has come from singing in Spanish. She established the Vikki Carr Scholarship Foundation in 1971. Cardona was born in El Paso, Texas. She attended Rosemead"
"guitarist Robert Johnson, protest singer Woody Guthrie, folk artist Pete Seeger, country musician Burl Ives, and country blues singer Lead Belly, among many others. Lomax was born in Austin, Texas, in 1915, the third of four children born to Bess Brown and pioneering folklorist and author John A. Lomax. The elder Lomax, a former professor of English at Texas A&M and a celebrated authority on Texas folklore and cowboy songs, had worked as an administrator, and later Secretary of the Alumni Society, of the University of Texas. Due to childhood asthma, chronic ear infections, and generally frail health, Lomax had"
"Mitchell Torok Mitchell Torok (born October 28, 1929, in Houston) is an American country music singer, songwriter, artist, author and guitarist, best known for his 1953 hit ""Caribbean"". He also wrote ""Mexican Joe"", which catapulted Jim Reeves to stardom. They began to write together and charted many top 20 hits. Torok reached the Billboard charts several times: in 1957 with ""Pledge of Love"" (Billboard Top 20), written by his wife, Gail Redd; in 1959 with an updated version of ""Caribbean"" (#27 on Billboard); with ""Redneck Nat' Anthem"" by Vernon Oxford in 1976; with Jerry Wallace and their song ""This One's"
"Libbi Bosworth Libbi Bosworth (born in Dallas, Texas) is an Americana and alt-country singer-songwriter and recording artist from south Texas who rose to prominence in the mid 1990s. Bosworth was born in Dallas, Texas, and raised in Galveston, Texas, the youngest of six. She was raised in a musical environment. Her father was a trucker who moonlighted as a honky-tonk singer, and her mother worked at an area country music station. Bosworth left home at the age of 16 to pursue a music education and career. She turned 17 in Beverly Hills, and worked for a short time at Francis"
"musical home. ""Lubbock is the capital of West Texas. There has been so much talent come out of there, and really . . . none of it has been very commercial. Buddy Holly wasn't commercial when he [first] came out of there."" Among those to whom Adams was referring was Don Allison, an area musician associated with various genres of music and a long-time producer at the Cactus Theater in Lubbock, where Adams has also frequently performed. Jay Boy Adams James Wallace ""Jay Boy"" Adams (born December 8, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Lubbock and San"
"Lubbock County, Texas Lubbock County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 278,831. Its county seat is Lubbock. The county was created in 1876 and organized in 1891. It is named for Thomas Saltus Lubbock, a Confederate colonel and Texas Ranger (some sources give his first name as Thompson). Lubbock County, along with Crosby County, and Lynn County, is part of the Lubbock Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The Lubbock MSA and Levelland Micropolitan Statistical Area (µSA), encompassing only Hockley County, form the larger Lubbock–Levelland Combined Statistical Area (CSA). According"
"Terry Allen (artist) Terry Allen (born May 7, 1943 in Wichita, Kansas) is an American Texas country and outlaw country singer-songwriter, painter and conceptual artist from Lubbock, Texas. He currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has recorded twelve albums of original songs, including the landmark releases ""Juarez"" (1975) and ""Lubbock (on everything)"" (1979). His song ""Amarillo Highway"" has been covered by Bobby Bare, Sturgill Simpson and Robert Earl Keen. Other artists who have recorded Allen's songs include Guy Clark, Little Feat, David Byrne, Doug Sahm, Ricky Nelson, and Lucinda Williams. ""Rolling Stone"" magazine describes his catalog, reaching back"
"Doug Sahm Douglas Wayne Sahm (November 6, 1941 – November 18, 1999) was an American musician and singer-songwriter from Texas. Born in San Antonio, Texas, he was a child prodigy in country music but became a significant figure in roots rock and other genres. Sahm is considered one of the most important figures in what is identified as Tex-Mex music. Proficient on multiple instruments, he was the founder and leader of the 1960s rock and roll band, the Sir Douglas Quintet. He would later co-found the Texas Tornados with Augie Meyers, Freddy Fender, and Flaco Jiménez as well as Los"
"Texas music artists such as Jimmy Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, Terry Allen, Jesse Taylor and David Halley. Livingston sharpened his skills as a guitarist and singer while attending Lubbock High and Texas Tech University. In 1968, he opened a folk club in Lubbock called The Attic, and shortly afterwards left Lubbock to pursue his own career in music. One of Livingston's first shows upon leaving Lubbock was to play for room, board and tips in Red River, New Mexico. There, he met a folk group called Three Faces West, whose members included Texas artist Ray Wylie Hubbard, Rick"
"In 2005, a film called ""Lubbock Lights"" was released about the music scene in Lubbock which describes some theories about the lights by the musicians from the area. In 2006, Lubbock-based alternative country band Thrift Store Cowboys wrote and recorded a song entitled ""Lubbock Lights"" on their third album, ""Lay Low While Crawling or Creeping."" Lubbock Lights The Lubbock Lights were an unusual formation of lights seen over the city of Lubbock, Texas, from August–September 1951. The Lubbock Lights incident received national publicity and is regarded as one of the first great UFO cases in the United States. The Lubbock"
"can be found on country music compilation albums. Rinehart was inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame in October 1996, in recognition of his being a pioneer of the Texas music scene. Cowboy Slim Rinehart Cowboy Slim Rinehart was born Nolan Alfred Rinehart on March 11, 1911, in Comanche County, Texas. He died October 28, 1948 in Michigan (car accident). He was among the first of the ""Singing cowboys"" of the 1930s and 40s (whose ranks included Jimmie Rodgers, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers among others), and gained notoriety and national recognition as a broadcaster and singer on"
"and Carnival Music. On January 13, 2017, Hemby released her first studio album, ""Puxico"", named after her birthplace, via her own label, GetWrucke Productions. Hemby is married to record producer Mike Wrucke. ""Puxico"" (2017) Natalie Hemby Natalie Nicole Hemby Wrucke (born March 24, 1977) is an American country music songwriter and singer. She has written songs for Lee Ann Womack, Eli Young Band, Toby Keith, Miranda Lambert, Sunny Sweeney and Little Big Town. Hemby was born in Puxico, Missouri. Hemby has accumulated five #1 ""Billboard"" singles during her career. Hemby's cuts include ""White Liar"" and ""Only Prettier"" by Lambert, ""Pontoon"""
"Clark co-write, ""Queenie's Song"", inspired by the death of his dog. Terry Allen (artist) Terry Allen (born May 7, 1943 in Wichita, Kansas) is an American Texas country and outlaw country singer-songwriter, painter and conceptual artist from Lubbock, Texas. He currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has recorded twelve albums of original songs, including the landmark releases ""Juarez"" (1975) and ""Lubbock (on everything)"" (1979). His song ""Amarillo Highway"" has been covered by Bobby Bare, Sturgill Simpson and Robert Earl Keen. Other artists who have recorded Allen's songs include Guy Clark, Little Feat, David Byrne, Doug Sahm, Ricky Nelson,"
"Jimmie Dale Gilmore Jimmie Dale Gilmore (born May 6, 1945) is an American country singer, songwriter, actor, recording artist and producer, currently living in Austin, Texas. Gilmore is a native of the Texas Panhandle, having been born in Amarillo and raised in Lubbock, Texas. His earliest musical influence was Hank Williams and the honky tonk brand of country music that his father played. In the 1950s, he was exposed to the emerging rock and roll of other Texans such as Roy Orbison and Lubbock native Buddy Holly, as well as to Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley, the latter two being"
"he still paints and is writing several albums. Torok married Gail Redd, a beauty queen from Lufkin, Texas, in 1951. Mitchell Torok Mitchell Torok (born October 28, 1929, in Houston) is an American country music singer, songwriter, artist, author and guitarist, best known for his 1953 hit ""Caribbean"". He also wrote ""Mexican Joe"", which catapulted Jim Reeves to stardom. They began to write together and charted many top 20 hits. Torok reached the Billboard charts several times: in 1957 with ""Pledge of Love"" (Billboard Top 20), written by his wife, Gail Redd; in 1959 with an updated version of ""Caribbean"""
"Brice ""Buster"", Dave and Pat, and one sister, Willena ""Toonce"" Clark. All siblings now deceased. Mack Vickery Mack Vickery (June 8, 1938 – December 21, 2004) was a musician, songwriter, and inductee in the Hillbilly Hall of Fame and Alabama Music Hall of Fame, whose songs have been recorded by artists such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Waylon Jennings, George Thorogood, Johnny Cash, George Strait, Hank Williams Jr., George Jones and many other notable artists. Born in Town Creek, Alabama, Vickery moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1957 and, considered leading man material, recorded for Sun Records, although nothing was initially released."