General Music Chat

Songs about Texas! That's right Jimmy I'm Drankin! I also have my cowboy hat on! Seriously this is TEXAS MUSIC! If you don't like it (don't listen) also I understand there is a little bird pointing its middle FANGER at you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sn0Dx8g ... re=related

Songs about Texas! That's right Jimmy I'm Drankin! I also have my cowboy hat on! Seriously this is TEXAS MUSIC! If you don't like it (don't listen) also I understand there is a little bird pointing its middle FANGER at you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sn0Dx8g ... re=related

The band is good.
I like the slide guitar.

Songs about Texas! That's right Jimmy I'm Drankin! I also have my cowboy hat on! Seriously this is TEXAS MUSIC! If you don't like it (don't listen) also I understand there is a little bird pointing its middle FANGER at you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sn0Dx8g ... re=related

The band is good.
I like the slide guitar.

Thanks brother! I just hope I'm that good when in my mid 80's he was basically sitting in!

Killer
If I could play a instrument well it would be the pedal steel
Love it
Love this sound ....add some acid and you have the Grateful Dead.
These guys are the real deal players though.
Seems like the more I get outside the rock world the more I realize that many pro rock players just arent as good as pro players in other genres ....

Yeah that slide player is great. I love the pedal steel in this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7XIL67QSME

i can rember the first time i played this song. early '80's on a jazz gig (!) at The Plaza Club in Rogers AR. i had never heard it before and when it modulated to key of the V chord i was clueless! missed it again the second time and by the THIRD time i finally had it scoped out!

yep, pedal steel is the bomb. it's one of those instruments that in the hands of someone who can play.....they're just gonna be kicking the guitarist's behind. i've been lucky enough to play in a few bands w both really talented steeler's and gtrsts.....and the poor gtrsts NEVER stood a chance!

Texas Statehood

Wikipedia:

As early as 1837, the Republic made several attempts to negotiate annexation with the United States. Opposition within the republic from the nationalist faction, along with strong abolitionist opposition within the United States, slowed Texas's admission into the Union. Texas was finally annexed when the expansionist James K. Polk won the election of 1844. On December 29, 1845, Congress admitted Texas to the U.S. as a constituent state of the Union.

After Texas's annexation, Mexico broke diplomatic relations with the United States. While the United States claimed that Texas's border stretched to the Rio Grande, Mexico claimed it was the Nueces River. While the former Republic of Texas could not enforce its border claims, the United States had the military strength and the political will to do so. President Polk ordered General Zachary Taylor south to the Rio Grande on January 13, 1846. A few months later Mexican troops routed an American cavalry patrol in the disputed area in the Thornton Affair starting the Mexican-American War. The first battles of the war were fought in Texas: the Siege of Fort Texas, Battle of Palo Alto and Battle of Resaca de la Palma. After these decisive victories, the United States invaded Mexican territory ending the fighting in Texas.

After a series of United States victories, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the two year war. In return, for US$18,250,000, Mexico gave the U.S. undisputed control of Texas, ceded the Mexican Cession in 1848, most of which today is called the American Southwest, and Texas's borders were established at the Rio Grande.

The Compromise of 1850 set Texas's boundaries at their present form. Texas ceded its claims to land which later became half of present day New Mexico, a third of Colorado, and small portions of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Wyoming to the federal government, in return for the assumption of $10 million of the old republic's debt. Post-war Texas grew rapidly as migrants poured into the cotton lands of the state.

I thought so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Texas

You guys are posting PART of the story read the link above if you want to know the REAL HISTORY of the "Republic Of Texas". My wife is a 6th Generation Texan. Her family has a graveyard in Seabrook Texas. The only way to get to it is thru a swampy marsh and by boat. It has been under control of the Armand Bayou Nature Center. Dawn (my wife) started doing research because she had never seen this family graveyard but heard of it all her life. Her family is well up in years a lot of people who know the history are dieing off. She went all the way back to BEFORE Texas was its own country and has documentation signed by Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna whom was the President of Mexico in 1835 he had provided land grants to the people living in Texas at the time one of them being Stephen F Austin. Thats who had ownership of this land whom eventually deeded it to the Harris Brothers. They in turn sold the parcel of land to Dawns family. Of course the documentation she has is a photo copy she had to aquire from Harris County land archives. She started noticing something was fishy with this land. she fought tooth and nail to get the old cemetary designated a historical site and now NOBODY can touch it. I am so proud of her for having worked so hard and deligently fighting the folks that wanted to take that land. I personally made the sign and went with the last living member of the family to place it at the site. Now because of Dawns hard work that family history is preserved for all generations of her beautiful family!

Hmmmm "Family Graveyard".. Hmmmm

There's a tune in there, somewhere..