🔥 JUST ANNOUNCED—OUR TEXAS HERO WILLIE NELSON IS BACK ON THE ROAD AGAIN IN TEJAS‼️

👉 Pre-Sale Tomorrow THU 8/30 at 10am CT

🎟️ Tickets On Sale FRI 8/30 at Noon CT

🎸 Two Texas Shows Just Announced for Willie Nelson & Family in concert on Sunday, October 20 at Doggett Ford Park Pavilion in Beaumont AND Wednesday October 23 at Floore’s Country Store in Helotes, TX‼️

💿 New Willie Nelson Album “Last Leaf On The Tree” available November 1st‼️

📸: Willie Nelson Floore’s Country Store Doggett Ford Park Pavilion

🔥 HEAD TO 15 TEXAS INDIE RECORD STORES TO HEAR GEORGE STRAIT’S “COWBOYS AND DREAMERS” 2-DAYS EARLY WITH LISTENING PARTIES ON WED SEPT 4‼️

💿 Our Texas Hero George Strait’s “Cowboys And Dreamers” Arrives Everywhere Else Friday, Sept. 6‼️

🎸 15 Texas Indie record stores listed below are celebrating George Strait’s forthcoming 31st studio record, Cowboys And Dreamers, with 87 locations total across the country hosting listening events on Wednesday, September 4 – two-days prior to the album’s release on Friday, Sept. 6 according to UMG Nashville. 🎶 Produced by Chuck Ainlay, who has been mixing Strait records since 1985, Tony Brown (Strait’s 1993’s Easy Come, Easy Go; 2008’s Troubadour) and Strait, the album’s title comes from a song penned by Jessie Jo Dillon, Keith Gattis and Bubba Strait. “I thought I should name the whole album Cowboys And Dreamers as I feel like the last of a dying breed, trying to find where I fit,” Strait offers of the song that opens with ‘Some days I feel like the last of a dying breed, Trying to find where I fit; Somewhere between high on top of the world, And fighting with calling it quits.’ While the Keith Gattis reaffirming “I Wish I Could Say” offers, ‘Wish I could tell you how the world ain’t ended, And how it’s all going to be ok.’


💥 15 Texas Indie Record Stores 💥

*Abilene—Record Guys 

*Arlington—CD Warehouse Records & Tapes 

*Austin—Waterloo Records 

*Bryan—Curious Collections 

*Carrollton—Dead Wax Records 

*Fort Worth—Chief Records

*Frisco—ZT Records

*Houston—Cactus Music 

*Huntsville—Volume Music 

*Keller—County Line Records 

*Klein—Music Town 

*Round Rock—Piranha Records 

*San Antonio—Del Bravo Record Shop 

*Spring / The Woodlands—Volume Music 

*The Woodlands—ZT Records

📸: @umgnashville @georgestrait @recordstoredayus

🔥 DON’T MISS SUPERSTAR TEXAN PARKER McCOLLUM IN AUSTIN TOMORROW 8/29 AT THE GRAND OPENING OF LUCCHESE’S NEW STORE at 1508 S. Congress Avenue for a short set and meet-and-greet at 7 pm before you kickoff your Labor Day Weekend‼️

🎟️ This Saturday 8/31, his homecoming tour in Texas resumes at the American Bank Center Arena in Corpus Christi followed by another concert date the next night at Whitewater Amphitheater in New Braunfels on Sunday 9/1‼️

Parker will appear on NBC/Peacock TV tonight at 9/8c for the Toby Keith: American Icon show.

📸: Jim Wright/Parker McCollum/UMG Nashville

🔥 PARKER McCOLLUM IS AN ATHLETE‼️🤯

🎸 DON’T MISS SUPERSTAR TEXAN PARKER McCOLLUM IN AUSTIN TOMORROW 8/29 AT THE GRAND OPENING OF LUCCHESE’S NEW STORE at 1508 S. Congress Avenue for a short set and meet-and-greet at 7 pm before you kickoff your Labor Day Weekend‼️

🎟️ This Saturday 8/31, his homecoming tour in Texas resumes at the American Bank Center Arena in Corpus Christi followed by another concert date the next night at Whitewater Amphitheater in New Braunfels on Sunday 9/1‼️

🎥: (Via hunter_girls_2015 TikTok)

🔥 TOTAL RAISED TO DATE 👉 $6,191,066‼️ (according to BowenFamilyFoundation.org)

🚨 From Wade Bowen: “Kicked off the Bowen Invitational 2024 yesterday ⛳️ Great friends. Great Music. Great Cause!”

🙏 The Wade Bowen Foundation is a charitable organization established by Texas Music singer and songwriter Wade Bowen and his family. The foundation focuses on supporting children, youth, and families in and around Waco, Texas, through various initiatives and events like the Bowen MusicFest and Bowen Classic golf tournament.

📸: Wade Bowen Randy Rogers Dean Dillon

🔥 OUR TEXAS MUSIC SUPERSTAR CASEY DONAHEW Drops His New Album “Never Not Love You” on September 27th Full of 17 New Songs‼️

📸: @CaseyDonahew

Going Old School:

Texas Indie Record Stores to Hold Listening Parties for George Strait's Album

The King of Texas will release his 31st studio record Cowboys and Dreamers on September 6th, but fans will get a chance to hear it early on Wednesday, September 4th at

fifteen Texas indie records stores and more around the country.

The Texas Indie record stores listed below are celebrating George Strait’s forthcoming 31st studio record, Cowboys And Dreamers. There are 87 indie record store locations across the country hosting listening events on Wednesday, September 4 – two-days prior to the album’s release on Friday, Sept. 6 according to UMG Nashville.

Produced by Chuck Ainlay, who has been mixing Strait records since 1985, Tony Brown (Strait’s 1993’s Easy Come, Easy Go; 2008’s Troubadour) and Strait, the album’s title comes from a song penned by Jessie Jo Dillon, Keith Gattis and Bubba Strait.

“I thought I should name the whole album Cowboys And Dreamers as I feel like the last of a dying breed, trying to find where I fit,” Strait offers of the song that opens with ‘Some days I feel like the last of a dying breed, Trying to find where I fit; Somewhere between high on top of the world, And fighting with calling it quits.’ While the Keith Gattis reaffirming “I Wish I Could Say” offers, ‘Wish I could tell you how the world ain’t ended, And how it’s all going to be ok.’


💥 15 Texas Indie Record Stores 💥

*Abilene—Record Guys 

*Arlington—CD Warehouse Records & Tapes 

*Austin—Waterloo Records 

*Bryan—Curious Collections 

*Carrollton—Dead Wax Records 

*Fort Worth—Chief Records

*Frisco—ZT Records

*Houston—Cactus Music 

*Huntsville—Volume Music 

*Keller—County Line Records 

*Klein—Music Town 

*Round Rock—Piranha Records 

*San Antonio—Del Bravo Record Shop 

*Spring / The Woodlands—Volume Music 

*The Woodlands—ZT Records

📸: @umgnashville @georgestrait @recordstoredayus

Article for reference Whiskey Riff.

Gotcha!: Del Rio’s own, William Beckmann signed with Warner Music Nashville. The label will release a new track called “Not That Strong” to DSPs Friday and Texas radio will have a single in October.

For those of you who attended the 2023 T3R Texas Music Awards in Arlington, TX, you got a taste of William’s bilingual skills at the after party when he jammed with artists like Rico Gonzalez of Kin Faux and others. 

Beckmann has had two number one singles in Texas with “Damn This Heart of Mine” and “Tennessee Drinkin’.”

Beckmann won the 2019 T3R Texas Music Awards Future Faces show and played on the awards show the next night where he met Randy Rogers. The two became fast friends with Randy managing him for a brief period of time before introducing William to his current manager, Matthew Miller with Triple 8 Management.  

Beckmann has opened for all the major acts in Texas Music including Randy Rogers, Wade Bowen, Parker McCollum, and Charley Crockett. He also has sold out headlining shows at Gruene Hall and Billy Bob’s Texas.

William posted the news on Facebook and said, “I am beyond proud to have signed a record deal with Warner Music Nashville. They believe in what I do and make me feel right at home and that is all an artist can truly ask for. Here’s to my new home and new music to come!!” 

My Texas: CD Texas Weekly News & Features reported today that singer-songwriter Josh Abbott was one of several speakers who testified on artificial intelligence during an interim hearing by a Texas Senate committee. 

The growth of AI is one of many topics lawmakers will tackle in the upcoming legislative session. 

“It’s very hard to put guardrails around all of the bad things it might generate,” said Dr. Matthew Lease, a professor at the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. One concern raised was AI’s potential impact on November and future elections, and how it can be eliminated or minimized. “One thing we can do is sort of put restrictions that when people are using generative AI or AI technologies in general to produce advertising ... That there’s appropriate disclosure in terms of what sorts of content there is real and not,” Lease said. 

The panel also heard ideas from other governments, including lawmakers in New York and Colorado, to limit bias in AI making decisions on housing, health care, and employment. Texas country singer-songwriter Josh Abbott also testified.

Abbott is concerned generative AI could copy those things from artists and hurt them. “My voice and my image and my name, they set me apart,” said Abbott. “It’s literally my brand. They can create a new record of me performing a song that I might not ever sing, and they profit from it. They might also create a video of me saying something that I would never say and ruin my reputation."

Take Me Out to the Ballpark: Koe Wetzel has a few days off in Boston and took in a Red Sox game at Fenway Park. 

European: The Red Clay Strays embarked on their first European Tour this past week hitting London, Scotland, Germany and Ireland. What a year for these guys. Millons of streams, two People’s Choice Awards nominations and sold out shows everywhere. Check out this Entertainment Focus article. 

Photo Credit: Robby Klein

Christmas in August?: Deryl Dodd and Dave Perez record a Christmas song at Fort Worth Sound with Bart Rose.

Friends in High Places: Chuck Taylor (PD) of 95.3 The Range KHYI/Dallas was invited to be a guest on the #RockSatarDadShow by his friend Jaret Reddick of Bowling For Soup. Check out the Podcast. 

Line Dancer: Billie Joe Jones has her own line dance created by Red Dirt Steppin for her song “Why You Got to Be So Cowboy”.

The song is featured on her new album Some Girls Don’t Cry that is available now. 

The title track from this album is the current single and has been #1 on the CDX True Indie chart for 4 weeks and is currently in the top 10 on the T3R chart. 

What Could Go Wrong with AI Music?: Spotify is reportedly being flooded with cover songs by AI "bands" which are being placed on the platform's playlists secretly. The perpetrators are then getting paid for the streams on these illegitimate songs.

And the Best Live Music Award Goes To: Railhead Smokehouse in Willow Park, TX plus Texas Music artist Randy Brown received the 760 Magazine’s Best of Parker County 2024 award.

Dirt Cheap: Cody Johnson’s #1 mainstream single, “Dirt Cheap” won the Music Row Awards Song of the Year.

Please Don’t Go: Wyatt Flores isn’t going anywhere. He has a new song coming out Friday and a new album soon. He received his first Platinum certification for “Please Don’t Go” at his Whitewater Amphitheater concert in New Braunfels, TX recently.

Custom Made: Aaron Watson is running a contest to win his custom-made cowboy hat to spread the word that his new song “Hit the Hay Runnin” will be out on streaming.  The single is already in the top 20 on the Texas Music charts and is from his forthcoming 40-song album Horse Named Texas that will be released at a later date. Watson underwent urgent vocal cord surgery last week and is on vocal rest until mid-September. Several shows were rescheduled for later dates including his Billy Bob’s Texas show that was moved to January 2025.  

Got New Music? Let us know. Email us at Texas Music Daily

New Music

Bart Crow "Stained Your Crown"

Bellamy Brothers "Crawl in a Hole"

Bubba Westly "Feels So Good"

Cynthia Rausch "Coming Home"

Dallas Moore Band "Last Night"

Doug Rose "Five Dollar Friends"

Gabe Choate "Wish I Would've Known"

Garrett Talamantes "Back to the Thorns"

Hayden Haddock "Front Porch in the Rain"

Holly Tucker "Trailer Parkin'"

J.R. Martinez "Turn It On"

Jake Bush "Her Way Ain't the Highway"

Jaron Bell "Adios (Ex's Version)"

Jenni Dale Lord Band "Dinner and a Heartbreak"

John Swat "Cowgirl"

Kelly Kenning "The Beer's Why We're Here"

Kyle Park "Hill Country Home"

Larissa Boyd "No One Else To Lose"

Matt Daniel "Keepin' Me Alive"

Mike Ryan "Get Away With Anything"

Mojo Brothers Band "Coming Home To You"

Presley Phillips "Rock Bottom"

Ryder Grimes "One More for the Ride"

Scott Hayley "Watch Love Burn"

Shane Smith & The Saints "Wheels"

Sul Ross "Weather Man"

The Lowdown Drifters "In Time"

Don't Ask Me To Dance: The new music video from Chuck Wimer "Don't Ask Me To Dance is out now.

Please send new music video releases to Texas Music Daily.

If I Didn't Have You: Matt Hillyer has a new video for "If I Didn't Have You" shot at Sagebrush in Austin, TX.

Please send new music video releases to Texas Music Daily.

Upcoming Album Releases

8/30/24

Sunny Sweeney

Still Provoked

9/6/24

George Strait

Cowboys and Dreamers

Kate Watson

Red Blooded American

Jenna Paulette

Horseback

9/12/24

Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors

Strangers No More, Vol. 2

9/13/24

Miranda Lambert

Postcards from Texas

Reckless Kelly

The Last Frontier

9/20/24

Chase Rice

Go Down Singin'

Midland

Barely Blue

September Moon

Carry On

9/27/24

Casey Donahew

Never Not Love You

Cody Jinks

Backside of 30

10/4/24

Tanner Sparks

Some Kind of Crazy

🎙️INDUSTRY JOBS AVAILABLE 🎙️

*Veteran PD and on-air personality, Shotgun Steve Kelly has left KKOW-FM in Pittsburg, KS and is looking for his next adventure. Contact him at DJdude68@yahoo.com

*KFWR/Fort Worth, TX* (LKCM) is recruiting for a future opening for a full-time on-air host. Candidates must have a desire to be involved in the local community, understand Texas country, Red Dirt and Americana, and the ability to connect with fans on-air and in person. Email cover letter, résumé and aircheck to PD Shayne Hollinger at jobs@theranchradio.com

*KKAJ/Ardmore, OK* (Stephens Media) is seeking a morning host. The company says, "This is a tremendous opportunity with a strong cluster that dominates the market in sales, promotions and on-air. KKAJ is a heritage country station with a little red-dirt heritage for flavor." Send resume, aircheck and references to SVP/Programming Bob Thornton at bob.thornton@smgnational.com

*KICM/Ardmore, OK* (Keystone) is seeking an Operations Manager (OM) who will work directly with the owners and the sales team, and oversee all aspects of the station’s programming. Please contact keystonebroadcastingok@gmail.com

*JAM BROADCASTING/Kerrville, TX is looking for a Rockstar Account Executive. TAB's Radio Station of the Year is on the hunt for a charismatic, go-getter Account Executive. Send your resume and cover letter to Toby at Jam Broadcasting Toby.JAMBroadcasting@gmail.com

*KMYY/Monroe, LA* (Stephens Media) is seeking a radio host and programmer to oversee its four-station cluster in the market, and likely co-host an AC morning show. Send résumé, aircheck and references to SVP/Programming Bob Thornton at bob.thornton@smgnational.com

Texas Radio & Artist Photos

KRae (MD/Middays) of Best Country KBEST 95.7/Big Spring, TX and Texas Music artist, Jenni Dale Lord.

Birthdays & Events This Week:

8/28: Django Walker

8/29: Jim Alvarado, PD of Troubadour Country Radio

8/30: Kelly Kenning

9/1: Charlie Robison

9/2: Joe Ely

9/2: Labor Day