Ty Myers was born with country music in his blood, surrounded by the sounds and smells of Texas honky tonks and growing up on his family’s six-generation cattle ranch south of Austin. His debut album ...

Welcome to the Texas Canon, a series that dives into ... which sums up the sentiment nicely: "I grew up on music that we called Western Swing/It don't matter who's in Austin, Bob Wills is still ...

Bob Wills was from Texas, born into a family with generations ... And he was influenced by “swing” music—an offshoot of jazz that was sweeping the nation in the 1930s.

Thursdays at 9:30pm at the Black Cat on Sixth Street, instructors Matt Jones, Susy Hovis, Darby O'Shieles, and Peter Turner give two-stepping and Texas swing lessons to the rest of us clod-footed ...