Real Texans Remember

August 30, 2011

Editor’s Note:  This is #5 in a series of articles from the eBook  titled, How To Be Texan Wherever You Are. You can be Texan Wherever You Are simply by knowing that famous phrase, “Remember the Alamo!” The Alamo gave rise to the Texas mystique.  Without the Alamo, there would be no Texas as we […]

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Music video Friday 58

August 26, 2011

George and Willie …..And Merle sing about some of their vices on Real Texas Blog.  

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Music Video Friday 57- Rusty Wier

August 19, 2011

Rusty Wier gone but not forgotten Last week on Real Texas Blog I had a post about Austin City Limits and got a reply from my amigo T. Gozney Thornton. T. Gozney and his band were a pretty big deal in Austin back in the day.  The post detailed the the new location for the […]

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Mike Cox West Texas Tales

August 16, 2011

One of the first things many West Texans do when they walk into anyplace away from home is to look around and see who they might know.  I’ve observed this peculiarity from West Texans while visiting in Austin, New York City, Cozumel, and probably in your hometown.  We know each other out here in West […]

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Music Video Friday 56-Mark Chesnutt

August 12, 2011

Real Texas singer series Mark Chesnutt was born September 6, 1963 in Beaumont, Texas.  He started out as many do on an independent label and he hit the national charts with the song “Too Cold At Home.”  From there he has gone on to hit the charts over 30 times including 8 number 1 Singles. […]

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Visiting Austin City Limits

August 9, 2011

ACL Live: An Austin Institution This post was written by our friends at Realty Austin, an Austin real estate agency. Editor’s note:  Here is a guest blog from Realty Austin.  Since the state capitol is one of our favorite places to visit, we like to know about items of interest there.  I’ve never visited Austin […]

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Music Video Friday – 55

August 5, 2011

Johnny Nicholas and the Hilltop Cafe From his website….. “Inconveniently located in the middle of nowhere…” It all started in September of 1980 in an old Texas roadhouse and gas station on the Mason Highway 10 miles north of Fredericksburg when Johnny Nicholas and his new bride Brenda packed all their belongings in Johnny’s 1950 […]

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Real Texas Lasagna

August 1, 2011

This is a recipe with a Real Texas twist. In stead of an Italian sauce, the spices and black olives in the sauce makes it a Tex-Mex sauce.  Replacing the Lasagna noodles with corn tortillas is another twist. You can download and print full version of the recipe by clicking on the hyperlink title: Real […]

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Music video Friday – 54

July 29, 2011

Selena Quintanilla She’s gone now, but hardly forgotten.  Selena’s story of course was told by Jennifer Lopez in the movie, “Selena Forever”.  Selena was born in Lake Jackson, Texas and was murdered by the president of her fan club at age 23.  She had 7  number 1 hits in the Tejano/Latin genre.  She was called […]

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Visit Granbury

July 26, 2011

Here is a ‘new media’ way to advertise and promote a small Texas city and they contacted me for help in promotion.  I’m sure they contacted many other media outlets and I’m happy to help them out. The Granbury Chamber  must have some pretty innovative folks there who are internet literate.  That is a big […]

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