Famous Texan muscians and trivia
Texas has long been a center for musical innovations. We Texans have long pioneered new venues of music and take pride in our musical accomplishments. Some of the early best known popular Texas artists, were, Buddy Holly, Buck Owens, Roy Orbison, Billy Preston ,Tex Ritter and Jerry Scoggins to name a few. Let us fast foward just a little bit to the present, and who among us have not heard of Willie Nelson, George Strait, Ray Price, Clay Walker , Freddy Fender, Aaron Watson or Pat Green? Some of these great Texas singers were and are also great lyricists. For example Willie Nelson wrote these great songs, ‘ Hello Walls’, (for Faron Young) …’ Pretty Paper’, (for Roy Orbison) and of course ‘Crazy’, (for Patsy Cline). Thesr are songs that are legends in themselves. But, can you imagine that they were all written by the man himself, Willie Nelson? And now we can appreciate him not only as a great singer, but also as a great songwriter. We should not fail to mention, that George Strait wrote a beautiful song, ‘I can’t see Texas From here”, from his album, “Strait From The Heart” Such a sweet and heart rendering song. . So that is to say that many of these Texas muscians were also lyricists as well as composers.
My musical adventure
I told family and friends, that I wanted to join that elite group of people and write a new CD .Of course I would in no way be elite or part of that great group. I aIso, informed them, that my music had to be Texas in flavor. Yes it had to be a little of everything. A varied genre of tunes. For example, a little soul and pop with some country western music sprinkled in. Also I wanted to write two latino melodies. And speaking of Latino, did you know that Freddy Fender wrote and sang his best selling hit, ‘Before the Next Teardrop Falls’? Yes this great song was by this great artist. But moving on, my music would also include jazz and easy rock. I wanted the music to be rooted in a sort of Texas kind of music. I started my project around the 10th of January, 2010. The first melody was, ” I can’t wait to see you again” and ended with the tune ” Take one more chance for love”, That last tune was completed on the 21st. of February, 2010.
In conclusion
So creating beautiful music as a composer or writing meaningful lyrics as a singer/song writer is not something I have been accustom to, and concentrating strickly on a pop album is something entirely new. So as I set out to compose these constrasting groups of melodies.You would think I would have known what I was doing? But I did not. I had to learn and I had to improvise. Thus only then I was able to complete what I had started. You can now listen to each of the melodies and see the variety and contrast I tried to put into each new song. Each song has its own character and mood.. Some of the music is romantic, and some, soft jazz, or easy-listening. A couple of songs are down-right-straight-and-out country music. The reason I wrote so many types of music , is that a filmscore composer must have knowledge and skills about all kinds of music. And remember too, that just as I have tried to create beautiful music, as did Willie Nelson, George Strait and so many of the other singer/songwriters, I encourage you to go and accomplish your goals in life, whatever they might be. With your ambition, your computer, a lot of effort and a little ingenuity, almost anything is possible. Do your research get involved and see what happens.
My music is now available for you to enjoy.
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