{"id":976,"date":"2018-12-31T15:02:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=976"},"modified":"2018-12-31T15:02:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:02:55","slug":"glenn-dromgooles-texas-reads-column-appears-weekly-at-lonestarliterary-com-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n

6.25.2017\u00a0\u00a0 Texas music is all over the map<\/h1>\n

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<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u201cNo state is more musical than Texas, <\/span>whose very geography seems to hum,\u201d writes Michael Corcoran<\/span> in his new edition of All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music<\/span><\/a><\/span> (University of North Texas Press, $29.95 hardcover).<\/p>\n

First issued in 2005, the new edition was completely rewritten, Corcoran says, with new chapters on Janis Joplin, Guy Clark, Lefty Frizzell, Ray Price, Freddie Fender,<\/span> and others. Glancing at the list of musicians in the table of contents, one might wonder: But what about Buddy Holly, George Jones, Bob Wills, Blind Lemon Jefferson? Willie Nelson<\/span> isn\u2019t profiled, but sister Bobbie Nelson<\/span> is, and of course Willie figures prominently in that one. Corcoran answers, \u201cThe focus here is on underappreciated artists, pioneers who haven\u2019t fully received their due.\u201d<\/p>\n

Corcoran groups the profiled musicians by region \u2014 East Texas, Houston, Dallas\u2013Fort Worth, Waco area, Austin, San Antonio, and Rio Grande Valley, and West Texas. Texas music is also all over the map in terms of style \u2014 not just country and western, but rock, folk, jazz, blues and Tejano.<\/p>\n

The forty-one artists getting full treatment include Rebert Harris of the Soul Stirrers, Clarence \u201cGatemouth\u201d Brown, Floyd Tillman, Archie Bell and The Drells, Ray Price, Townes Van Zandt, Billie Joe Shaver, T-Bone Walker, Cindy Walker, Johnny Gimble, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Selena, Lydia Mendoza, Waylon Jennings, the Chuck Wagon Gang,<\/span> and Ernest Tubb.<\/span> The author admits many more Texas musicians deserve to be profiled, but \u201cthere\u2019s no way this book can be complete and still be portable.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the end of the 300-page book, he lists his thirty-four favorite Texas recordings by acts not profiled in this volume. Willie Nelson and Buddy Holly, of course, made that list, along with Charley Pride, Robert Earl Keen, Ivory Joe Hunter, Gary P. Nunn, George Strait<\/span>, and other big names in Texas music.<\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span><\/span>First novel: <\/span>Geraldine Justice<\/span> of Dallas has written a Christian novel dealing with health care, nature, faith, community, and government secrecy. Mountain of Healing<\/span> (WestBow Press, $17.95 paperback) is set in rural Appalachia and revolves around two elderly sisters and their simple, yet profound faith. When a nurse is sent to help care for one of the sisters whose cancer has come back, she finds beauty and inner peace on the mountain where the sisters live. But the mountain also harbors a deadly, sinister secret.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy novel,\u201d Justice writes, \u201clooks at human and government failures that can have a far-reaching impact on caregivers and patients alike.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is West Texas Stories<\/span><\/a><\/span>Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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