Summary: This report originally aired on Texas Matters in November 2008. Among the splendors of Texas is the music that has sprung from its roots. Texas music is as diverse as its people. Texas tunes include jazz, spirituals, gospel, rock 'n' roll, Tex-Mex, Cajun, Hillbilly, the music of Czechs, Germans and other European immigrants. And then there is the blues. As American Southerners settled in Texas they brought their slaves with them. The singing of African-Americans as they worked long, hot hours on
