Kitty Collins

A Texan

[Emotion & Music @Emotion78687]

A timeless love song that still warms the heart, with Shania Twain at her very best. ✨🎵

[Facts About Texas @FactsAboutTexas]

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[Robert Earl Keen @robertearlkeen]

“In total, the sounds and sights Mr. Keen and band have concocted and assembled [with Western Chill] work as road maps toward getting happily de-stressed and deliberately lost—for the audience, too.” - The Wall Street Journal on the physical release of Western Chill

[Julian Onderdonk @JulianOnderdonk]

Bluebonnet Scene

[The Alamo @OfficialAlamo]

Let it snow at the Alamo! ❄️

[Vintage Rock N’ Roll 🎸 @RockNRoLL_85]

This Song never gets old…….

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

George Roy Hill died OTD in 2002.
George was the director of Slap Shot, A Little Romance and The World According to Garp. He also directed two movies nominated for Best Picture Oscars, The Sting (whatever that is... which won) and, of course, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

Traces of Texas reader Max Smith was walking by a pile of garbage in Port Arthur many years ago when he found this photo of Bob Wills and band in front of their bus. I think it's pretty neat that this photo, once on the verge of being lost forever, will now be seen by folks around the world via X. Bob looks pretty young here. I'm guessing it was taken in the mid 1940s.

Thank you, Max. I love it!

[Chad Casey @WxFanaticCC]

Storms approaching Bowie. #txwx

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

Who remembers Gibson's? I can still even remember their advertising jingle. This was taken in Tyler, Texas back in the mid-70s.

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

The Texas Quote of the Day:

Somebody called Sam Houston "a party unto himself." Sam replied, "From that I rather derive some consolation because I know that I could not be in better company, and no differences can arise between myself and myself."

You've gotta love Ol' Sam!

[Kelly Willis @KellyWillisKW]

1996. Bruce and Charlie and I were invited to play Jerry Jeff’s birthday party. These two couldn’t have been more excited. I stepped off stage and snapped this picture. A really good memory.

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

It don't matter who's in Austin, Bob Wills is still the king.

[SCC @SCCmusi]

Happy #Twosday Y'all! Two bonafide legends singing one of the most iconic songs in country music cowritten by @WillieNelson. You might not know that it was inspired by the late Queen of Rock Tina Turner. We also like the Possum's solo version of the song on his comeback album I Am What I Am, enjoy!

Song & Album:Good Hearted Woman
Artists:@merlehaggard @gjpossum
Year:1971
@billboard:3
#CountryMusic

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

Two legends: Hondo Crouch, the man most responsible for turning Luckenbach into LUCKENBACH, TEXAS and the great Gary P. Nunn who has written classic songs like "London Homesick Blues," "What I Like About Texas," and "Last Thing I Needed, First Thing This Morning." Circa 1974. Really super. I've probably mentioned before that one of my great regrets is never having met Hondo before he died. What a true Texas character he was!

@garypnunn @raywylie @slaidc @TxMusicHoP @txmusicoffice @TXmusicTV @RayBensonAATW @LuckenbachTexas @LuckReunion @TXMusicMatters @TxMusicMag @BobLivingston

[Chad Casey @WxFanaticCC]

Screams Texas! #txwx

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day:

Robert Duvall patterned his mannerisms, voice, and gestures for the part of Gus McCrae in "Lonesome Dove" from Sammy Baugh, the hall-of-fame quarterback from Temple, Texas.

Said Duvall, "About a month before we started filming, I looked up a classmate, a rancher near Rotan, and he took me to see Sammy Baugh. I thought, 'Wow.' My dad had taken me to see him play with the Washington Redskins when I was ten years old. But he must have been seventy when I met him, and he didn’t even know who I was. We talked for hours about football and his life, and he just seemed to me like an old, tall Texas Ranger. So that’s where I got my gestures and voice and everything (for Gus McCrae), watching and listening to Sammy Baugh."

[90’s Country Chord @90sCountryChord]

George Strait | I Cross My Heart