Lone Star State of Mind
Various Artists
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- The Basics
Texas used to be a nation in its own right, and when you're out in its endless flatlands, it still feels that way. So it's not surprising that the Lone Star State has produced its own kinds of music, mixing country, blues, and dance rhythms from across the Mexico border. Allow us to take you on a guided tour.
£20.17 The Basics
Name Artist Time Price 1 That'll Be the Day Buddy Holly 2:16 £0.79 View In iTunes 2 The Joker Steve Miller Band 4:25 £0.99 View In iTunes 3 Texas Willie Nelson 3:52 £0.79 View In iTunes 4 You're Gonna Miss Me The 13th Floor Elevators 2:30 £0.79 View In iTunes 5 Let's Talk About It White Denim 3:55 £0.99 View In iTunes 6 Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas) Jimmie Rodgers 3:24 £0.99 View In iTunes 7 I Fought the Law Bobby Fuller Four 2:17 £0.79 View In iTunes 8 The Entertainer Scott Joplin 4:26 £0.79 View In iTunes 9 You Got It Roy Orbison 3:23 £0.99 View In iTunes 10 Gimme All Your Lovin' ZZ Top 3:58 £0.79 View In iTunes 11 Cry Baby Janis Joplin 3:56 £0.99 View In iTunes 12 Pancho and Lefty Townes Van Zandt 4:13 £0.79 View In iTunes 13 The Underdog Spoon 3:42 £0.79 View In iTunes 14 Sunday Morning Coming Down Kris Kristofferson 5:19 £0.79 View In iTunes 15 Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) Waylon Jennings 3:22 £0.99 View In iTunes 16 Texas Flood Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble 5:20 £0.99 View In iTunes 17 San Antonio Girl Lyle Lovett 3:31 £0.79 View In iTunes 18 Welcome to the Real World Butch Hancock 5:55 £0.79 View In iTunes 19 Desperadoes Waiting for a Train Guy Clark 4:32 £0.99 View In iTunes 20 The First Vietnamese War The Black Angels 3:30 £0.79 View In iTunes 21 Closer to Heaven Rodney Crowell 5:20 £0.99 View In iTunes 22 (Is Anybody Goin' To) San Antone Texas Tornados 3:04 £0.79 View In iTunes 23 Tuff Enuff The Fabulous Thunderbirds 3:22 £0.99 View In iTunes Total: 23 Songs - Next Steps
The best Texas music is as unique and wide as the Lone Star State itself. When you soak your ears in Willie Nelson's "Texas" you're right there, silhouetted against a livid red sunset, or shufflin' in the dust to the old-time sound of the steel guitar on "San Antonio Rose" by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. 'Nother beer, pard?
£19.77 Next StepsName Artist Time Price 1 Strollin' With Bones (04-05-50) T-Bone Walker 2:31 £0.79 View In iTunes 2 Northeast Texas Women Jerry Jeff Walker 4:14 £0.79 View In iTunes 3 Love Rustler Delbert McClinton 3:32 £0.99 View In iTunes 4 Losing You Kelly Willis 3:34 £0.79 View In iTunes 5 I'll Take Texas Vince Gill 2:08 £0.99 View In iTunes 6 Tighten Up, Pt. 1 Archie Bell and the Drells 3:16 £0.79 View In iTunes 7 Borderline Slaid Cleaves 4:52 £0.79 View In iTunes 8 Cry, Cry, Cry (Single Version) Bobby "Blue" Bland 2:41 £0.79 View In iTunes 9 Big Ball's in Cowtown George Strait & Ray Benson 2:41 £0.99 View In iTunes 10 Two-Headed Dog Roky Erickson 3:19 £0.79 View In iTunes 11 Unless It's Kicks Okkervil River 4:38 £0.79 View In iTunes 12 Highway Patrol Junior Brown 2:39 £0.99 View In iTunes 13 Be Brave The Strange Boys 2:58 £0.79 View In iTunes 14 Your Hand In Mine Explosions In the Sky 8:17 £0.99 View In iTunes 15 Copperhead Road Steve Earle 4:30 £0.99 View In iTunes 16 Wasted Days and Wasted Nights Freddy Fender 2:46 £0.79 View In iTunes 17 Come Fly Away Jimmie Dale Gilmore 5:52 £0.79 View In iTunes 18 San Antonio Rose Bob Willis & The Texas Playboys, Hank Penny, Light Crust Doughboys, Sons of the West, Spade Cooley & Tex Williams 3:22 £0.79 View In iTunes 19 Worried Blues Leadbelly 3:11 £0.99 View In iTunes 20 Walking the Floor Over You Ernest Tubb 2:38 £0.59 View In iTunes 21 Across the Alley from the Alamo Johnny Rodriguez & Ray Benson 3:18 £0.99 View In iTunes 22 It's the Sun The Polyphonic Spree 5:33 £0.79 View In iTunes 23 Evita's Lullaby Alejandro Escovedo 4:22 £0.99 View In iTunes Total: 23 Songs - Deep Cuts
Texas is the land of acoustic troubadours, Tex-Mex rock 'n' rollers, and down-home bluesmen, every one of them a storyteller. Johnny Winter gives "Hustled Down in Texas" his inimitable hard blues-rock edge, and Jimmie Rodgers stretches his tonsils to their limits on "Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas)".
£18.97 Deep CutsName Artist Time Price 1 We Ran Katy Moffatt 4:55 £0.79 View In iTunes 2 Folks Back Home Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown 3:53 £0.79 View In iTunes 3 Dos Tacos Augie Meyers 2:37 £0.79 View In iTunes 4 Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground Blind Willie Johnson 3:21 £0.79 View In iTunes 5 Nowhere Else But San Antonio Joe "King" Carrasco and The Crowns 2:46 £0.79 View In iTunes 6 Tumbling Tumbleweeds Michael Nesmith 3:44 £0.99 View In iTunes 7 Should I Stay or Should I Go The Tailgators 3:31 £0.79 View In iTunes 8 Mother Earth Tracy Nelson 2:20 £0.79 View In iTunes 9 Must Be Santa Brave Combo 4:43 £0.79 View In iTunes 10 By the Rio Grande Tish Hinojosa 3:35 £0.79 View In iTunes 11 The Road Goes On Forever (Long Version) Robert Earl Keen 7:10 £0.99 View In iTunes 12 Ain't Got No Sweet Thing Ponty Bone & The Squeezetones 3:29 £0.79 View In iTunes 13 Hangover Tavern Hank Thompson 2:34 £0.99 View In iTunes 14 Walls Fall Down Kimmie Rhodes 4:19 £0.79 View In iTunes 15 Dallas Joe Ely 3:27 £0.79 View In iTunes 16 Fire Down In Texas Terry Allen Band 2:50 £0.79 View In iTunes 17 Give It Up (Give In) Marcia Ball 4:31 £0.79 View In iTunes 18 Rain Johnny Copeland 6:03 £0.79 View In iTunes 19 Hustled Down in Texas Johnny Winter 3:29 £0.99 View In iTunes 20 Question Old 97's 2:15 £0.79 View In iTunes 21 Yellow Rose of Texas David Allan Coe 3:39 £0.79 View In iTunes 22 Hard Times In the Land of Plenty Omar and the Howlers 4:15 £0.79 View In iTunes 23 Laredo James McMurtry 5:17 £0.79 View In iTunes Total: 23 Songs - Complete Set
You'll be blubbing into your beer to Joe Ely's "Honky Tonk Masquerade", rattling your old rocking chair to the peerless blues of Lightnin' Hopkins on "You're Gonna Miss Me", and feeling some hot, dry wind in your hair with Tish Hinojosa and Kris Kristofferson's "By the Rio Grande". Texas is big, but you don't have to go there to get a flavour; just fire up the barbeque, crack open a can, and plug in our best-of-the-West Lone Star mix.
£58.91 Complete SetName Artist Time Price 1 That'll Be the Day Buddy Holly 2:16 £0.79 View In iTunes 2 The Joker Steve Miller Band 4:25 £0.99 View In iTunes 3 Texas Willie Nelson 3:52 £0.79 View In iTunes 4 You're Gonna Miss Me The 13th Floor Elevators 2:30 £0.79 View In iTunes 5 Let's Talk About It White Denim 3:55 £0.99 View In iTunes 6 Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas) Jimmie Rodgers 3:24 £0.99 View In iTunes 7 I Fought the Law Bobby Fuller Four 2:17 £0.79 View In iTunes 8 The Entertainer Scott Joplin 4:26 £0.79 View In iTunes 9 You Got It Roy Orbison 3:23 £0.99 View In iTunes 10 Gimme All Your Lovin' ZZ Top 3:58 £0.79 View In iTunes 11 Cry Baby Janis Joplin 3:56 £0.99 View In iTunes 12 Pancho and Lefty Townes Van Zandt 4:13 £0.79 View In iTunes 13 The Underdog Spoon 3:42 £0.79 View In iTunes 14 Sunday Morning Coming Down Kris Kristofferson 5:19 £0.79 View In iTunes 15 Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) Waylon Jennings 3:22 £0.99 View In iTunes 16 Texas Flood Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble 5:20 £0.99 View In iTunes 17 San Antonio Girl Lyle Lovett 3:31 £0.79 View In iTunes 18 Welcome to the Real World Butch Hancock 5:55 £0.79 View In iTunes 19 Desperadoes Waiting for a Train Guy Clark 4:32 £0.99 View In iTunes 20 The First Vietnamese War The Black Angels 3:30 £0.79 View In iTunes 21 Closer to Heaven Rodney Crowell 5:20 £0.99 View In iTunes 22 (Is Anybody Goin' To) San Antone Texas Tornados 3:04 £0.79 View In iTunes 23 Tuff Enuff The Fabulous Thunderbirds 3:22 £0.99 View In iTunes 24 Strollin' With Bones (04-05-50) T-Bone Walker 2:31 £0.79 View In iTunes 25 Northeast Texas Women Jerry Jeff Walker 4:14 £0.79 View In iTunes 26 Love Rustler Delbert McClinton 3:32 £0.99 View In iTunes 27 Losing You Kelly Willis 3:34 £0.79 View In iTunes 28 I'll Take Texas Vince Gill 2:08 £0.99 View In iTunes 29 Tighten Up, Pt. 1 Archie Bell and the Drells 3:16 £0.79 View In iTunes 30 Borderline Slaid Cleaves 4:52 £0.79 View In iTunes 31 Cry, Cry, Cry (Single Version) Bobby "Blue" Bland 2:41 £0.79 View In iTunes 32 Big Ball's in Cowtown George Strait & Ray Benson 2:41 £0.99 View In iTunes 33 Two-Headed Dog Roky Erickson 3:19 £0.79 View In iTunes 34 Unless It's Kicks Okkervil River 4:38 £0.79 View In iTunes 35 Highway Patrol Junior Brown 2:39 £0.99 View In iTunes 36 Be Brave The Strange Boys 2:58 £0.79 View In iTunes 37 Your Hand In Mine Explosions In the Sky 8:17 £0.99 View In iTunes 38 Copperhead Road Steve Earle 4:30 £0.99 View In iTunes 39 Wasted Days and Wasted Nights Freddy Fender 2:46 £0.79 View In iTunes 40 Come Fly Away Jimmie Dale Gilmore 5:52 £0.79 View In iTunes 41 San Antonio Rose Bob Willis & The Texas Playboys, Hank Penny, Light Crust Doughboys, Sons of the West, Spade Cooley & Tex Williams 3:22 £0.79 View In iTunes 42 Worried Blues Leadbelly 3:11 £0.99 View In iTunes 43 Walking the Floor Over You Ernest Tubb 2:38 £0.59 View In iTunes 44 Across the Alley from the Alamo Johnny Rodriguez & Ray Benson 3:18 £0.99 View In iTunes 45 It's the Sun The Polyphonic Spree 5:33 £0.79 View In iTunes 46 Evita's Lullaby Alejandro Escovedo 4:22 £0.99 View In iTunes 47 We Ran Katy Moffatt 4:55 £0.79 View In iTunes 48 Folks Back Home Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown 3:53 £0.79 View In iTunes 49 Dos Tacos Augie Meyers 2:37 £0.79 View In iTunes 50 Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground Blind Willie Johnson 3:21 £0.79 View In iTunes 51 Nowhere Else But San Antonio Joe "King" Carrasco and The Crowns 2:46 £0.79 View In iTunes 52 Tumbling Tumbleweeds Michael Nesmith 3:44 £0.99 View In iTunes 53 Should I Stay or Should I Go The Tailgators 3:31 £0.79 View In iTunes 54 Mother Earth Tracy Nelson 2:20 £0.79 View In iTunes 55 Must Be Santa Brave Combo 4:43 £0.79 View In iTunes 56 By the Rio Grande Tish Hinojosa 3:35 £0.79 View In iTunes 57 The Road Goes On Forever (Long Version) Robert Earl Keen 7:10 £0.99 View In iTunes 58 Ain't Got No Sweet Thing Ponty Bone & The Squeezetones 3:29 £0.79 View In iTunes 59 Hangover Tavern Hank Thompson 2:34 £0.99 View In iTunes 60 Walls Fall Down Kimmie Rhodes 4:19 £0.79 View In iTunes 61 Dallas Joe Ely 3:27 £0.79 View In iTunes 62 Fire Down In Texas Terry Allen Band 2:50 £0.79 View In iTunes 63 Give It Up (Give In) Marcia Ball 4:31 £0.79 View In iTunes 64 Rain Johnny Copeland 6:03 £0.79 View In iTunes 65 Hustled Down in Texas Johnny Winter 3:29 £0.99 View In iTunes 66 Question Old 97's 2:15 £0.79 View In iTunes 67 Yellow Rose of Texas David Allan Coe 3:39 £0.79 View In iTunes 68 Hard Times In the Land of Plenty Omar and the Howlers 4:15 £0.79 View In iTunes 69 Laredo James McMurtry 5:17 £0.79 View In iTunes Total: 69 Songs
