The Redwater Poet." I love a good mystery!ĬM: Who influenced you as a budding performer? Who influences you now? MMM: I love every line in the great cowboy song, "I Am A Texas Cowboy.” The opening lines are: "I am a Texas cowboy / From Texas now I hail, show me a rope and pony / I'm ready for the trail / I love the rolling prairies, they're from care and strife / Behind a pair of longhorns I'll journey all my life." No one knows who wrote it for sure. Forces were gathering!ĬM: What’s your favorite line from Texas music? Or about Texas music? Waylon Jennings started hanging around, and Jerry Jeff Walker showed up just before Willie came. We formed a band, the Cosmic Cowboys (which later became the basis of the Lost Gonzo Band), and "Geronimo's Cadillac" came out in 1972, about the time Willie Nelson moved to Texas from Nashville. My old friend Bob Livingston, a native Texan I met in California, soon joined me, as well as my steel guitar-playing longtime friend from California, Herb Steiner. MMM: For me, Austin, Texas from 1970 to 1974 was a great homecoming for Texas musicians who had scattered all over the country to find work. ""For me, Austin, Texas from 1970 to 1974 was a great homecoming for Texas musicians who had scattered all over the country to find work." "
CM: Do you have a favorite moment, or era, from Texas music? Texas music has traditionally been a bastion of males (don't blame men - it just happened), but artists like Karen Abrahams, Paula Nelson, Kimberly Kelly and Pauline Reese are writing some interesting songs, continuing on in territory pioneered by Cindy Walker, Rosie Flores, Lee Ann Womack, Marcia Ball and Terri Hendrix. I also see a trend toward more female singer-songwriters.
Some new people aren't from Texas, and don't live there, yet, as Lyle Lovett says, "Texas wants you anyway." Some of the new people have so immersed themselves in Texas music that it's downright impossible to tell they're not from Texas!
#COSMIC COWBOY FULL#
MMM: People like my son, Ryan Murphey (who has won several Texas Music awards), Randy Rogers, Stoney La Rue, Walt Wilkins, Pat Green, Jack Ingram, Roger Creager - and many more who tend to pop up at "MusicFest" in Steamboat Springs, Colorado (which features primarily Texas Music) - are developing a style that is firmly planted in Texas music traditions, yet innovative and full of restless creativity and angst of rock music - kind of a “Texas Gypsy Soul Music.” ""They are developing a style that is firmly planted in Texas music traditions, yet innovative and full of restless creativity and angst of rock music - kind of a 'Texas Gypsy Soul Music.'"
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