THURSDAY, OCT. 2, 2014 VOLUME 89 ■ ISSUE 23
WEEKEND EDITION
PHOTOS COURTESY OF TEXAS TECH CROSSROADS MUSIC ARCHIVE AT THE SOUTHWEST COLLECTION/SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY AND FILE PHOTOS/The Daily Toreador
TOP LEFT: TORNADO Jam; BOTTOM LEFT: C.B. “Stubb” Stubblefield; CENTER: WAYLON JENNINGS; RIGHT: JOSH ABBOTT are a few notable artists and festivals that have ties to the Lubbock music scene. Since 1999, several artists have performed in the United Supermarkets Arena. Paul McCartney will be the arena’s 103rd performer when he visits Lubbock on Thursday.
Lubbock provides musical outlet for performers throughout history By AMY CUNNINGHAM La Vida Editor
Besides being the economic hub of West Texas, Lubbock and its extensive musical history have influenced both local and international artists since the town was founded in 1909. Former Beatles member Paul McCartney, who chose to visit Lubbock because Buddy Holly inspired the band, will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday in the United Supermarkets Arena. According to a previous article in The Daily Toreador, Lubbock Mayor Glen Robertson said McCartney wanted to perform in Holly’s hometown because of the late musician’s influence on McCartney’s musical career. “It’s reported that when he was a teenager, he and John Lennon were able to watch Buddy perform on a televised program in London,” Jacqueline Bober, assistant manager
and curator of the Buddy Holly Center, said. “They were just very interested in watching him and appreciated the sound out of America.” Curtis Peoples, associate archivist for the Texas Tech Crossroads Music Archive at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, said the musical history of Lubbock began before Holly, one of the town’s best-known musicians, and the Crickets made music. “Music history in Lubbock and greater West Texas is really important to the social fabric of our area, of our cultural heritage,” he said. “Music has always been an important part of all the communities here in West Texas.” Before Lubbock was founded, he said music was a key cultural aspect of both early Anglo settlements and the Native American tribes that preceded them. Once the town became incorporated, the musical sound
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Other quartets also rose to prominence during this time. Odis “Pop” Echols was a member of the Stamps Quartet, which, in 1927, was the first gospel group to have a gold record, Peoples said. Echols taught Charlene Condray, a young singer, how to be a performer, Peoples said. She joined the Roadside Playboys, Peoples said, which was the house band of the popular Cotton Club. It was at the Cotton Club that Holly first saw Elvis Presley perform live. “He grew up listening largely to country music and gospel music, so the origins begin there and progress to something with a little more up-tempo,” Bober said, “like the rock ‘n’ roll Elvis Presley brought to Lubbock when he visited.” MUSIC continued on Page 3➤➤
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of Lubbock transformed from fiddles and sing-alongs to brass and percussion, Peoples said. “Back then, a town would really boast about having a brass band,” he said. “As a town grows, of course, the music starts to become more diverse.” The diversity continued in the 1910s when quartet vocal groups, which performed religious music as well as popular tunes, became a mainstream form of entertainment, he said. These musicians taught their sound to Lubbockites and West Texans throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Before Holly arrived on the musical scene, the first nationally recognized group was the Lubbock Texas Quartet, Peoples said. “I believe, in all my research, that they are the first Lubbock group to record for a national label,” Peoples said. “They recorded with Columbia Records in December of 1929.”
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