Dear TxHSA Family: We hope this message finds you both healthy and well. Our organization continues to monitor the current COVID-19 situation while working with music and community leadership for guidance and planning towards a 2021 TxHSA Hall of Fame Weekend. Like many of you, we are evaluating the different scenarios which can affect our
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AUSTIN, Texas, May 13, 2019 — The Texas Heritage Songwriters’ Association(TxHSA) is pleased to announce its 2020 Hall of Fame class of inductees: Jerry Jeff Walker, Jim Collins, Larry Henley, Susanna Clark, and T-Bone Walker. TxHSA Board member Joe Ables revealed the new class of songwriters during its Key West Songwriters Festival Texas Music Showcase, a production co-sponsored by the Texas
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The tenth Annual Texas Heritage Songwriters’ Association (TxHSA) Hall of Fame Awards Show will take place Sunday, February 21st, 2016 at ACL Live at The Moody Theater in downtown Austin, Texas. In collaboration with both the TxHSA and The Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau, Texas songwriting troubadour Robert Earl Keenannounced a new class of inductees during the Key West Songwriters Festival last week. The TxHSA will honor the late Roy
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A native Texan, Murphy carved his role in a country movement which launched out of Austin during the early ’70s alongside Michael Nesmith of the Monkees. His career has spanned nearly five decades. This multi-Grammy nominee has acquired six gold albums, including Cowboy Songs, the first album of cowboy music to achieve gold status since Gunfighter Ballads and Trail
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The Texas Heritage Songwriters’ Association announced its 2014 inductees February 26: Buck Owens, K.T. Oslin and Waylon Jennings. Oslin, a grammy winner, will perform at the organization’s ninth annual event June 22 at ACL Live at the Moody Theater, while Jennings and Owens — both being inducted posthumously — will be honored with performances by
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As a Lubbock sandstorm howled outside his window in the summer of 1958, he wrote “I Fought the Law,” one of the first rock rebellion songs, which was first recorded by the Crickets three months after Buddy Holly died, made famous by the Bobby Fuller Four in 1965, then flagged as a nascent punk song
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“One of a kind” is a phrase reserved for the likes of Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe — and Roger Miller. Though Roger Miller has been gone for two decades, the impact that the eleven-time Grammy winner made on the world of songwriting is as unique and timeless as the songs he wrote. Roger Miller’s career spanned
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The tale of Sonny Curtis unfolds as any great Texas songwriter’s should, with equal parts simplicity and the stuff of legends. Starting with West Texas sandstorms of mythic proportions and featuring the likes of Buddy Holly and The Clash, Sonny Curtis’ story has itself become a piece of Texas folklore. But, like any good-hearted Texan,
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Ronnie Dunn may be best known for “Boot Scootin’ Boogie,” “My Maria,” and a 20-year Nashville career as the latter half of the most successful duo in music history. But Dunn is more than a commercial country crooner creating Grammy-nominated tunes from the center of Tennessee. Dunn is a Texan. “I really look at the
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Austin, TX – January 14, 2013 – The 8th Annual Texas Heritage Songwriters’ Hall of Fame Awards Show will take place March 3rd, 2013 at ACL Live at The Moody Theater in downtown Austin, Texas. Tickets for the star-studded show go on sale today at 10 a.m. CST on ACL-Live.com, and a limited number of
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