Tag Archives: 1975 in Houston

Vocalist/songwriter Tift Merritt seemingly appeared out of nowhere in the springtime of 2002 with her acclaimed debut record, Bramble Rose, but seeing that is usually the case, this triple-threat musician — a gifted vocalist, superb songwriter, and skillful guitarist — actually provides plenty of knowledge under her belt. Delivered in …

Best known because the frontman for multi-charting post-grunge stalwarts Blue Oct, Justin Furstenfeld was created in Houston, Tx and attended the city’s SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL for the Executing and Visual Arts. He began the rock-band the final Desire in the past due ’80s whilst in his early teenagers, plus they …

Slide electric guitar blues with an Elmore Adam flavor played with an eight-string desk (non-pedal) steel electric guitar was the trademarked sound of Houston blues legend Hop Wilson. Totally a local sensation, Wilson documented fitfully and hated touring. Though he also performed great down-home blues on typical guitar and was …

Harlem citizen Jason Moran brings a distinctly artistic contact to his jazz compositions and piano using. The impressionistic strategy of visible and musical performers like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Maurice Ravel inspire Moran’s playing and composing design, on both his very own compositions and his use jazz contemporaries like Cassandra Wilson, …

Label owner, songwriter, maker Don Robey’s name ought to be on any serious set of early pop/R&B pioneers. His Duke-Peacock category of brands boasted an extraordinary roster: Johnny Ace, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Big Mama Thornton, Clarence “Gatemouth” Dark brown, the Dixie Hummingbirds, O.V. Wright, Carl Carlton, the Five Blind Kids …

b. 17 November 1933, Crowley, Louisiana, USA, d. June 1975, Houston, Tx, USA. Little is well known of Nixon, although his piano is usually to be heard on a lot more information than he produced under his very own name. His family members transferred to Houston in 1939, where he’d …

While Nuwine, Houston, Tx indigenous Maurice Williams was a deep-voiced religious rapper who recorded many albums, a lot of that have been self-released, through the 1990s and 2000s. Down the road, he proceeded to go secular as Wine-O, and peaked commercially in 2006 with “Pop My Trunk,” an individual that …