Thursday, June 24, 2004
The first country music recording was by Texas fiddler Alexander “Eck” Robertson of Amarillo.
Alger “Texas” Alexander was the first to record “House of the Rising Sun” in 1928.
Texan
Gene Autry had the first album in history to go gold. In 1949, he had
the first album to go platinum with “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.”
Robert
Earl Davis of Houston created an underground sensation by mixing other
peoples’ music and raps together. Davis is more popularly known as “DJ
Screw.”
Parts of Texan Don Henley’s video for “End of the Innocence” were filmed at Adair’s in Deep Ellum.
According
to the Texas Music Office “No less than five uniquely American forms of
music- Rock and Roll, Jazz, Blues, Tejano and Western Swing- either was
invented or first flourished in the Lone Star State.”
Austin’s 13th Floor Elevators were the first Psychedelic band.
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