The Country Music Hall of Fame inducted Wills in 1968 and the Texas State Legislature honored him for his contribution to American music.

* Colonial Country Club ( Fort Worth ), a golf course in Texas

The Democrats had championed the cause of expansion, informally linking the controversial Texas annexation issue with a claim to the entire Oregon Country, thus appealing to both Northern and Southern expansionists.

Richard S. " Kinky " Friedman ( born November 1, 1944 ) is an American Texas Country singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain.

Two of their songs made the Billboard Country Singles Chart: " Texas Cowboy Night " (# 23 ) and " Play Me or Trade Me " (# 43 ).

The event was held in and about the Stonewall High School gymnasium in Stonewall in the Texas Hill Country.

* KTEX South Texas Country 100. 3 FM ( Country )

His dispatches to the Times were collected into three volumes ( A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States ( 1856 ), A Journey Through Texas ( 1857 ), A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853-4 ( 1860 )) which remain vivid first-person social documents of the pre-war South.

This arrangement ended as U. S. settlement grew and President James K. Polk was elected on a platform of calling for annexation of the entire Oregon Country and of Texas.

Country rock has survived as a cult force in Texas, where acts including The Flatlanders, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, Jimmy Dale Gilmore and California-based Richard Brooker, have collaborated and recorded.

West of the Escarpment is the beginning of the " upland " Texas Hill Country, characterized by rocky terrain with thin layers of soil lying on top of limestone.

The western half of the county is an extension of the Western Plains and is considered to be within the eastern fringes of Texas Hill Country and has an average elevation of.

* Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge The Baclones Refuge is located in the Texas Hill Country to the northwest of Austin, Texas including parts of western Williamson County.

The Refuge was formed in 1992 to conserve habitat for two endangered songbirds: the Golden-cheeked Warbler and the Black-capped Vireo and to preserve Texas Hill Country habitat for numerous other wildlife species.

The vegetation found in the Hill Country includes various oaks, elms, and Ashe juniper trees ( often referred to as " cedar " in Texas ).

A scene of the Texas Hill Country in northern Uvalde County

It recently tagged itself as the " Capital of the Texas Forest Country ".

Thus, the county's name is derived from the name of an individual as opposed to any geographic feature, and as a result, Hill County is not a part of Texas Hill Country.

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It is located in the heart of the Texas Hill Country.

By then, the Texas Playboys were virtually two bands: one a fiddle-guitar-steel band with rhythm section and the second a first-rate big band able to play the day's swing and pop hits as well as Dixieland.

Other Chicano / Mexican American singers include Selena, who sang a variety of Mexican, Tejano, and American popular music, but was killed in 1995 at the age of 23 ; Zack de la Rocha, lead vocalist of Rage Against the Machine and social activist ; and Los Lonely Boys, a Texas style country rock band who have not ignored their Mexican American roots in their music.

Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale did collaborate with Austin, Texas band The Octopus Project to perform " Girl U Want " and " Beautiful World.

At first, the band was under-rehearsed and played poorly, but improved markedly with steady gigging and received rapturous responses at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, Texas and at a filmed concert at Liberty Hall in Houston ( with Neil Young and Linda Ronstadt sitting in ) and Max's Kansas City in New York City.

Friedman formed his first band, King Arthur & the Carrots, while a student at the University of Texas.

By 1971, Friedman had formed his second band, Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys, which many took to be a play on the name of the famous band Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys.

The band released an album and DVD, entitled Live in Texas, which consisted of audio and video tracks of some of the band's performances in Texas during the tour.

In 2001 the band came to the US for major press, radio and TV appearances for the Bastard Life or Clarity release and returned Stubbs in Austin, Texas to kick off a sold out US tour with dates in Austin, Boulder, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York City and the last show at the famous Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

* Free Radicals ( band ), a jazz-funk musical group from Houston, Texas

Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly / country and western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis.

Former music stations such as KLIF, Dallas, Texas ), WLW ( Cincinnati, Ohio ), WHAS ( Louisville, Kentucky ), WHAM ( Rochester, New York ), WLS ( Chicago, Illinois ), KFI ( Los Angeles, California ), WRKO ( Boston, Massachusetts ), WKBW ( Buffalo, New York ), and WABC ( New York, New York ) made the switch to all-talk as their ratings slumped due to listener migration to the FM band.

* Texas Hippie Coalition, a rock band from Denison, Texas

ZZ Top is an American rock band from Houston, Texas.

They were successful as live performers, becoming known to fans as " that little ol ' band from Texas ", and their 1973 album Tres Hombres, according to AllMusic, propelled the band to national attention and " made them stars ".

Etheridge quit the band in January 1970, and was replaced by Michael " Cadillac " Johnson ; Johnson was replaced by Dusty Hill the following month: The finalized lineup of ZZ Top performed their first show on February 10, 1970 in Beaumont, Texas.

He formed a band, The Texas Longhorns.

At seventeen, Jennings and band recorded a demo of the songs " Stranger in My Home " and " There'll Be a New Day " at KFYO radio in Lubbock, Texas.

Texas Tech University Goin ' Band from Raiderland | Goin ' Band from Raiderland, a college marching band in the United States

Higher tolls are planned for July 1, 1961, on the Richmond-Petersburg, Va., Turnpike, and proposals for increased tolls on the Texas Turnpike are under study.

Arlington's hole card was Turnpike Stadium, a 10, 000-seat park which had been built in to house the AA Dallas-Fort Worth Spurs of the Texas League.

* Turnpike Stadium, the former name of Arlington Stadium in Arlington, Texas, United States

Central Plano is bordered to the east by U. S. Highway 75, the west by Dallas North Tollway, the south by President George Bush Turnpike, and the north by Texas State Highway 121.

Texas State Highway 190 ( President George Bush Turnpike ) borders the north and Interstate 635 ( Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway ) borders the south.

Northeast of Dallas, Sachse is approximately north of the President George Bush Turnpike ( Texas State Highway 190 ) and Firewheel Town Center.

Bush Turnpike Station is a DART Light Rail station located in Richardson, Texas ( USA ) at the President George Bush Turnpike near 20px US 75 ( Central Expressway ).

Located in the Dallas / Fort Worth area and home to the University of Texas at Dallas, the Corridor is a strip about 6. 5 miles ( 10 km ) long along U. S. Highway 75 ( the North Central Expressway ), between President George Bush Turnpike and Interstate 635 and is often considered an area of the Silicon Prairie.

* Central Texas Turnpike System

The Texas Department of Transportation completed construction of the tollway as part of the 2002 Central Texas Turnpike Project ( CTTP ).

In 1997, the Texas Turnpike Authority was merged with TxDOT and independently, the North Texas Turnpike Authority became responsible for toll projects in Collin, Dallas, Denton and Tarrant counties.