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Part fact, part mystique, the music emanating from Texas has long drawn interest from around the globe. Texans have been involved and up front and present in the evolution of every American musical form for the 20th Century. From Scott Joplin to Janis Joplin, from Bob Wills to Asleep at the Wheel, from T-Bone Walker to Stevie Ray Vaughn, from Buddy Holly to Destiny's Child, Teddy Wilson to Van Cliburn, Texans have been there, done that. The list is truly astounding!

In fact the web just may not be big enough to hold all the information about Texas music! So, we'll content ourselves to focus on one remarkable decade, the '60s.

Following are remembrances of things past: the clubs, the bands that played them, the record labels that made them, the media that hyped them and the graphics that illustrated them. Much of what is contained here is rare archival material. First hand accounts abound, the true stories of what it was like to make music in Texas in the 1960s.

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book cover EYE MIND

The Saga of Roky Erickson and The 13th Floor Elevators, The Pioneers of Psychedelic Sound
by Paul Drummond
Foreword by Julian Cope
"One of the most exhilarating and important rock 'n' roll stories ever told."
--Julian Cope

More information about this important book here.



The JFK Assasination Connection — Did Monte di Monti Conspire with Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald?
"I'm involved in a really big project down here that will catch everyone off guard, all over the world. Lee knows everyone down here and alot of them have serious bread and want something done about Kennedy."
- Monti diMonti, July 1963




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1960s Texas Music wishes to thank the numerous contributors to this site. The results are a colaborative effort!

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Read the illustrated story of the Pastels -- one of Houston's premier 1960s rock bands. (pdf file 45MB)

Amazing collection of Houston hippie music, clothing, and restaurant advertisements (flickr.com slideshow)

Texas bands and orchestras 1920s-60s (flickr.com slideshow/Pine Grove Press)

Space City News cover gallery R.I.P. Bill Narum

Austin's The Sweetarts interview.

Sonobeat Records Story.

A Quest for Pure Sanity: The Psychedelic Poetry of Tommy Hall (13th Fl. Elevators).

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Audio: Poverty's Project KILT Houston radio advertisement from April 21, 1967

'70 film: KPFT transmitter bombing by the KKK. Unseen in over 30 years!

...more audio/video!

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