Texas Music Matters
David Brown
September 3, 2013
Big Broadcast: The Texas Trinity
On the next edition of Texas Music Matters, it’s the stories of the Texas Trinity: The Bard of Corsicana, The Master Craftsman, and The Troubled Troubadour.
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August 8, 2013
For much of the 20th century, radio was the voice of the establishment, selling not just detergent, but a whitewashed, idealized vision of America. But that wasn’t entirely true. From the early 30’s until the early 70’s, late at night, strange sounds would skip across the stratosphere, filling the air over America with the howls […]
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August 1, 2013
Big Broadcast: How Long Must I Dream
Of the many Texas music musicians who’ve made a major impact on the American songbook, one of the most often overlooked is Roy Orbison.
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July 25, 2013
Grab a gallon of ice cream and breakout those sweatpants – it’s heartbreak Texas style on this edition of Texas Music Matters. Friday at noon and again Friday night at 11 on KUTX 98-9.
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July 9, 2013
On this week’s edition of Texas Music Matters, some of our favorite musicians– including Shawn Colvin, Alejandro Escovedo, Will Sheff, Brandi Carlile, Joan Osborne and many others — go ‘On the Record’ about the albums that changed their lives and why they made such a difference.
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June 27, 2013
On this week’s edition of Texas Music Matters: new beginnings— from late bloomers to musical reintroductions.
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June 20, 2013
Big Broadcast: Best of ’13 (So Far)
Join us for what’s come to be a ‘start of the summer’ tradition–as Jeff McCord, Laurie Gallardo, Rick McNulty and Matt Reilly handpick the best albums of 2013 –so far.
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June 13, 2013
Recording a hit record is like catching lightning in a bottle – certain pop stars manage to do it over and over, but for the people we’re about to hear from – once was good enough. These are the stories of 8 Texas musician, each one immortalized by a single recording—never again to return to the […]
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About
David Brown
David Brown is host of the daily statewide public radio news hour, Texas Standard. He is former anchor of the Peabody award-winning public radio business program Marketplace, and a veteran public radio journalist for more than three decades. Brown has covered national and international affairs for NPR and PRI’s Monitor Radio from bases in Atlanta, Boston, London, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. He has received numerous Murrow awards, National Headliner Awards, AP Broadcast honors and two Grand Prizes from the International Radio Festivals. Brown earned his Ph.D. in Journalism from The University of Texas at Austin, his Juris Doctor from Washington and Lee University School of Law, and is an active member of the California and U.S. Supreme Court Bars.
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