SAN ANTONIO — Tejano artist Veronique Medrano appreciates the people that paved the way for her. The Rio Grande Valley native took a trip to the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University and ...

Born in Texas, Miller Sparks, who would become known as Speedy Sparks, never strayed too far from home. Loving the Lone Star State, he eventually moved to Austin to explore a career in the music ...

Speedy Sparks (second from left in the rear) performed with legendary musicians, including the Texas Tornados. Credit: Courtesy Photo / Texas Tornados Speedy Sparks, a bassist who played with Lone ...

The incumbent senator is up against his strongest challenge yet in populist-right leader Ken Paxton. Look, the legislative staffer said, all Ken Paxton has to do is go down to South Texas and say ...

1975 was a very big year for John Denver. His song, “Thank God I’m a Country Boy,” was a Billboard crossover hit, hitting No. 1 on both the country and Hot 100 charts in the summer of 1975. At the ...

Baldemar Garza Huerta, better known as Freddy Fender, was born in 1937 in the small town of San Benito in the Rio Grande Valley. His family worked in cotton fields during his childhood. Fender made ...

Rio Grande Valley artist, Pop Culture, painted the mural of Kirk — along with a quote from a Nepalese political activist — the same day that the popular political activist was killed by a single ...

The 1970s were a great time for country music. Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton, and several other major artists released iconic albums and songs. Additionally, legends like John Prine and ...

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The accordionist commands the stage, his eyes staring off as if in a trance, his fingers trilling out the opening notes of a tune. It’s a long, sinuous riff, one so intoxicating that the audience in ...

Flaco Jimenez, the legendary accordionist from San Antonio who won multiple Grammys and helped expand the popularity of conjunto, Tejano, and Tex-Mex music, died Thursday. He was 86. Jimenez’s death ...

Flaco Jiménez, the San Antonio-born accordionist whose music has been a hallmark of Tex-Mex, Tejano and conjunto music for seven decades, died Thursday, according to a statement from his family. No ...