Artist	Song
...	"I wanna buy that motel ..."
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	You're from Texas
Tex Williams & His Western Caravan	I Got Texas in My Soul
Chuck Guillory	Big Texas
Pat Green	I Like Texas
Gary P. Nunn	Can't Get the Hell Out of Texas
Kinky Friedman & His Texas Jewboys	We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to You
Ray Wylie Hubbard	Screw You, We're from Texas
Terry Allen	Amarillo Highway
Steve Earle	Home to Houston
Asleep at the Wheel	Boogie Back to Texas
Gene O'Quin	Texas Boogie
Wayne 'the Train' Hancock	Hill Country Hillbilly Girl
Don Walser	Rolling Stone from Texas
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys featuring the McKinney Sisters	Texas Plains
Gary P. Nunn	Guadalupe Days
Guy Clark	Uncertain, Texas
Willie Nelson	Texas
Waylon Jennings	Bob Wills is Still the King (live)
Joe Ely	Dallas (live)
Delbert McClinton	Thank You Baby (live)
The Hollisters	East Texas Pines
Sir Douglas Quintet	Texas Tornado
Ernest Tubb & Willie Nelson	Waltz Across Texas
Lyle Lovett	That's Right (You're Not from Texas)
Brave Combo	Denton, Texas (edit)

Comment:

"You can teach me lots of lessons, you can bring me lots of gold,/ but you just can't live in Texas if you don't have a lotta soul."
- Doug Sahm, "At the Crossroads"
2-3 - What better way to start than with some Western Swing, the national music of Texas. As Waylon said, "Makes me proud to be from Texas/ where Bob Wills is still the King." In fact, he says that further on down the mix.
4 - A song drenched in that swampy SE Texas and Louisiana Cajun sound, heavy on the fiddle with a solid dose of steel. This is the 1949 version of Chuck's big song.
5-8 - A few songs illustrating my love/hate relationship with Texas. It's easy to love Texas; it's just as easy to hate it. Either way, it's hard to get out. Ray Wylie feels the same way ... sure we have corrupt politicians and corporations, but hell, we've also got Willie, Robert Earl, Stevie Ray, and was there ever a band "cooler than the 13th Floor Elevators"? And I have to mention that the Kinkster is running for governor of Texas!! His slogan ... "How Hard Could It Be?" (Yes, he's serious. And he's accepting contributions. Buy some stuff, send some cash.)
9 - Terry Allen: Renaissance man and Lubbock contemporary of Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock ... all bastard sons of Buddy Holly. This rollicking little ditty finds Terry high rollin' down ol' 87.
10 - Drivin' for Halliburton. Even Houston's better than this.
11-13 - A little Texas boogie: Gene O'Quin played hopped-up hillbilly music in the days before rockabilly was born... a real rockabilly godfather. Wayne the Train's hardcore honky tonk-rockabilly voice sounds like he's Gene's own boy. And speaking of godfathers, would there be an AATW without Bob Wills? Nope.
14 - Local legend Don Walser shows off his yodeling chops. Tragically for all those in love with the classic Western Swing, honky-tonk, and Texas country songs that Don spent his career promoting and preserving, poor health has forced him to retire from performing. Man, he was the real deal.
15 - Some right purty yodeling from sisters Dean & Evelyn.
16-17 - A good Texas mix always needs a song or two about floating down rivers, which, next to driving a pickup at excessive speeds after guzzling a six pack of Lone Star, is the national pastime of Texas. Besides, you can drink a lot more beer while floating than driving.
18 - Another Willieode to Texas. Some beautiful guitar work by Willie and some sentiments I can relate to .... on a good day anyway.
19-21 - And now for the live portion of our show.... "Bob Wills" is from "Waylon Live", one of the great live albums, recorded during the height of the outlaw country movement. Joe Ely does a rockin' version of Jimmie Dale's "Dallas" recorded at Antone's, Austin's home of the blues. And speaking of rockin', this is a favorite Delbert concert rave-up ... rockin' Texas R&B in the finest roadhouse tradition.
22 - Good ol' honest-to-goodness East Texas honky-tonk hillbilly rock. Hot damn!
23 - Sir Doug was the ultimate Texas music melting pot. Country, blues, R&B, Tex-Mex, Conjunto, Norteño, Cajun, jazz, Texas swing, British Invasion, garage rock, psychedelic -- if a style of popular music was played in Texas, Doug played it too ... and always made it sound like he'd invented it. We still miss him.
24 - Two legends doing ET's legendary song. "Like a storybook ending, I'm lost in your charms."
25 - Another Texas boy made good, even if he is an Aggie. Let Lyle show you how to wear your hat and buy your pants.
26 - Hard to imagine that Denton could produce polka and world-fusion icons like Brave Combo. I guess funny things were happening at North Texas State in the late 70s.
"Well if you ain't never been there then I guess you ain't been told/ That you just can't live in Texas unless you got a lotta soul"
- Waylon Jennings

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