Under The X In Texas

Bio:

Your host Ted Branson DJ/Programmer for Under the X in Texas every Tuesday 9am-11am on 91.7FM KOOP Community Radio here in Austin, Texas, has lived in Austin for 35 years, traveled all over North America, amassed a huge collection on Vinyl and CD of all genres of Texas and Roots Music.

Documented his travels having interviewed, filmed, recorded and photographed Texas artists in performances throughout the state and all it's borders. Ted is currently putting together a video/music documentary of Western Swing artists performing today on the Texas circuit. Also worked behind the scenes for 1 year on the Award Winning TV Western miniseries Lonesome Dove, traveling to remote locations in Texas and New Mexico.

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Supporting KOOP's mission, Under the X in Texas seeks out the senior and largely forgotten originators and forerunners of Texas music, brings to light obscure yet influential artists in the development and history of what we've come to know as Texas Music-a rich melting pot of all cultures, women and men, coming together in the Lone Star State from the early pioneers and immigrants bringing with them the musics of their homelands, creating a rich musical heritage that includes Blues, Jazz, Conjunto, Cowboy Poets, Singer Songwriters, Country Western, Rockabilly, Western Swing, R & B, Tex-Mex, German /Czech music, Zydeco, Bluegrass and so on.

The program will also feature Texas musicians , authors, biographers , artists and filmakers who are influenced today by the musical legacy created by those who came before, with interviews plus live performances both in studio and from the field while attending annual festival events throughout the southwest.

Texas Music, and in particular its history, is underserved in the mainstream media. Continuing with KOOP's mission to serve the community, Under the X in Texas will help inform and educate listeners as to the diversity of genres created and still very much active today here Deep in the Heart and Under the X!

JOHNNY GIMBLE WROTE OUR THEME SONG AND WHEN I ASKED HIM FOR PERMISSION TO TITLE THE PROGRAM AFTER HIS SONG HE ASKED, "WHAT STATION ARE YOU WITH?" I REPLIED, "KOOP!" HIS RESPONSE WAS SIMPLY, "I'D BE HONORED". Thank You, Johnny!

THE GIMBLES

South Texas Soul: The San Antonio Sound - documentary trailer

Special Thanks to Narrator and Director of The Center for Texas Music History at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Dr Gary Hartman and NPR Affiliate KUT for "This Week In Texas Music History" segments!

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September 20, 2008

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Also be sure to Tune in on Thursday's 9am-11am for Rod Moag's Country Swing and Rockabilly Jamboree and Sunday's STRICTLY BLUEGRASS http://strictlybluegrass.org/ 10am-Noon with host DJ Texas Ted Branson Jr now added to the programmer roster team.

Influences:

JOHNNY CASE!!!!!

The Quebe Sisters, Paul Schlesinger, Greg Hardy, Tommy Allsup, Jody Nix, Ted Scanlon and The Desperados, Eddie McAlvain & The Mavericks, Wild River Band, Playboys II, Ray Price, Ernest Tubb, Tom Morrell and The Time Warp Tophands, Floyd Domino, Rick McRae, Bobby Doyle, Doug Sahm, Billy Mata, Larry Scott, John Wooley, Big Jim Russell, The Tex Mex Experience, Dave Alexander, Cornell Hurd Band, Del Puschert, Bob Wills, Walter Lyons, The Texas Playboys. Commander Cody.

Eddie Wilson and Joe Nick Patoski REMEMBER THE ARMADILLO WORLD HEADQUARTERS!

ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL. Spade Cooley, , Ole Rasmussen, Rocky Morales, Cindy Walker , Jesse "Guitar" Taylor. Buck Owens, Cliff Bruner, Milton Brown, Johnny Paycheck, Billy F Dee , Jack Barber, Jimmy Wyble, Buddy Emmons, Redd Volkaert, Cindy Cashdollar, Asleep at the Wheel, Leon Rausch, Matt Smith, Brian Mitchell, Johnny Gimble, Dean Martin, Louis Prima, Keely Smith, Ray Benson, Jason Roberts, Dave Sanger , Merle Haggard, Lefty Frizzell, Jitterbug Vipers..

RUBY JANE SHOW LIVE IN KOOP STUDIOS!!!!!

Red Foley, Jackie McClean, Los Jazz Vatos, The New York Monsters, Bobby Flores, Jake Hooker, Curly Lewis, Asylum Street Spankers, White Ghost Shivers, Clyde Brewer & The River Road Boys, Westside Horns, James Clay, Clifford Scott, Arnett Cobb, Rocky Morales, Sebastian Campesi, The Texas Horns, Spot Barnett, Floyd Tillman, Bill Kirchen, Johnny Nicholas, Ernie Durawa, Augie Meyers, Hubert Sumlin, Billy Higgins, Cedar Walton, Randy Garibay, Little Joe y Familia, Damian Green, Warren Hood, Elizabeth McQueen, Jon Emery, Billy Joe Shaver, Johnny Bush, Leon Chambers, Frankie Miller, Rudy "Tutti" Grayzel, Herb Remington, Ramona Reed, Louise Rowe, Chris O'Connell, MaryAnn Price.

The Piney Grove Ramblers LIVE in KOOP Studios!

Stanley Smith, Slim Richey, Tony Campise, Danny Levin, Chuck Cusimano, Greg Hardy, Rod Moag, Dale Watson, Charlie Musselwhite, Bert Rivera, Texas Swing Kings, Floyd Tillman, Angel Flores, Lydia Mendoza, Justin Trevino, Amber Digby, Tommy Hooker, Rudy T Gonzales, Dimas Garza, Al Gomez Jr, Sunny Ozuna, Earl Poole Ball, Pinetop Perkins, Hank Thompson, Flaco Jimenez, The Vrazels, Adolph Hofner, Joe Patek, Ray Campi, Jimmy Martin, Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs, Osborne Bros., Johnny and Jerry Case , Faron Young.

LIVE Knights of Texas Swing in KOOP Studio!

MY HEROES: Bob Wills and all His Texas Playboys, Milton Brown, Doug Sahm, Tex Ritter, Tommy Duncan, John Ford, Billy Holiday, James Cagney, Randy Garibay , Eldon Shamblin, Jimmy Martin, John Wayne, Danny Roy Young, Johnny Cuviello, Clifford Antone, Johnny Bush, Willie Nelson, Wildman Ray Liberto, Steve Jordan, Nicholas Ray, Robert Mitchum, Charlie Walker, Jerry Reed, Waylon Jennings, Grady Martin, Al Strickland, Merle David, Tommy Camfield, Buck Roberts, Hub Sutter, Floyd Tillman, Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys .

LIVE UNDER THE X IN TEXAS JOANNA RAMIREZ AND WILL INDIAN SR.

Sounds Like:

The History of Texas Roots Music from Vernon Dalhart, Bob Wills to Jack Teagarden, Eddie Cleanhead Vinson, Lightnin' Hopkins, Doug Sahm, Don Tosti and Chelo Silva. Conjunto, Texas Blues and Jazz, Bluegrass, Western Swing, Cowboy, Country and Western, Rockabilly, Tex-Mex, Czech Bohemian, Zydeco, Big Band, Singer songwriter, R&B, Soul, etc.

GROOVERS PARADISE!!!!!

Original Kerry Awn oil painting.

Record Label:

KOOP 91.7FM Community Radio