The Texas Heritage Songwriters’ Association (TxHSA) Presents its 2020 Hall of Fame Awards Show.
The TxHSA will pay tribute to the songwriting achievements of five Texas songwriters – Jerry Jeff Walker, Jim Collins, Larry Henley, Susanna Clark, and T-Bone Walker – inducting them into its 2020 Hall of Fame.
The evening will also pay special tribute to the life and works of world-renowned singer and Texan, B.J. Thomas honoring him with its DKR Texas Music Legend Award.
Performances by: Ronnie Dunn, Jimmie Vaughan, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Thompson Square, Jeff Hanna, Matraca Berg, Jack Ingram, Ruthie Foster, Wade Bowen, Todd Snider, Duke Robillard, W.C. Clark, Johnny Nicholas, Jim Collins, Mignon
Grammy Award-winning TxHSA Hall of Fame member Ronnie Dunn returns as master of ceremonies.
Saturday, February 22, 2020
Paramount Theatre
Doors: 6:30 PM
Show: 7:30 PM
Tickets: $39-$195
Ticket Link: https://tickets.austintheatre.org/5708
The Texas Heritage Songwriters’ Association (TxHSA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to honoring and celebrating Texas songwriters who have played an important role in defining and interpreting Texas’ distinctive culture.
Artist Details
The evening will include special performances by Ronnie Dunn, Jimmie Vaughan, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Thompson Square, Jeff Hanna, Matraca Berg, Jack Ingram, Ruthie Foster, Wade Bowen, Todd Snider, Duke Robillard, W.C. Clark, Johnny Nicholas, Jim Collins, and Mignon. TxHSA Hall of Fame member Ronnie Dunn will return to the Awards Show, serving as master of ceremonies.
Texas’ self-styled culture is unique in ways that are respected and envied around the world, and so is its songwriting. Jerry Jeff Walker is strongly associated with the progressive “outlaw” country scene that centered around Austin, Texas in the 1970s and included such notable figures as TxHSA Hall of Fame members Willie Nelson, Guy Clark, Billy Joe Shaver, and Townes Van Zandt. Walker’s “Mr. Bojangles” is perhaps his most well-known and most-often covered song. His best-known album, Viva Terlingua, was recorded in 1973 in the tiny Texas town of Luckenbach with the Lost Gonzo Band and went gold.
Nacogdoches-native Jim Collins has charted seven singles on Billboard, and had more than 150 of his songs cut, including singles by Kenny Chesney “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy,” “The Good Stuff,” and “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven”; Chad Brock “Yes!”; Jason Aldean “Big Green Tractor”; and Gretchen Wilson “I Don’t Feel Like Loving You Today” which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Song.
The late Larry Henley of Arp, Texas, first reached success as the lead singer of pop group Newbeats, charting two hits in the top 20 including, “Bread and Butter.” Henley co-wrote “‘Til I Get It Right” for Tammy Wynette, a 1973 No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles, later covered by Barbra Streisand and Kenny Rogers. Other No. 1 country hits were his songs “Is It Still Over?” performed by Randy Travis, “Lizzie and the Rainman” performed by Tanya Tucker, and “He’s a Heartache (Looking for a Place to Happen)” performed by Janie Fricke. Henley is a 2012 inductee into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and best-known for co-writing the 1989 hit “Wind Beneath My Wings,” a U.S. No. 1 hit for Bette Midler.
Born in Atlanta, Texas, the late Susanna Clark was an American artist and country/folk songwriter. She wrote the No. 1 hit “I’ll be Your San Antone Rose,” recorded first by artist Dottsy. She co-wrote “Come From the Heart,” which Don Williams first recorded and Kathy Mattea took to No. 1 in 1989. Her songs have been covered by the likes of Carlene Carter, Emmylou Harris, Miranda Lambert, and Jerry Jeff Walker.
The late Aaron Thibeaux “T-Bone” Walker of Linden, Texas was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who was a pioneer and innovator of the jump blues and electric blues sound. In 2018 Rolling Stone magazine ranked him No. 37 on its list of “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.” Walker is credited with influencing Chuck Berry, B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix, and Steve Miller. Some of his most notable songs include, “Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad),” “Bobby Sox Blues,” (a No. 3 R&B hit in 1947), and “West Side Baby” (a No. 8 on the R&B singles chart in 1948). Walker was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
B.J. Thomas, the 2020 DKR Texas Music Legend Award recipient, is a true American institution whose iconic pop, country, and gospel hits defined their respective generations and now transcend them. Thomas, a native Houstonian, has found a unique way to celebrate an incredible half a century in music and some 47 years since his first gold-selling hit. The singer, a five-time Grammy and two-time Dove Award-winner, has sold more than 70 million records and is ranked in Billboard’s Top 50 most played artists over the past 50 years. Some of his best-known recordings are the Burt Bacharach and Hal David song “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” and the original version of the Mark James song “Hooked on a Feeling.”
These six honored Texas artists will join an exclusive group who embody the spirit of Texas through songwriting. Past inductees include the likes of Guy Clark, Kris Kristofferson, Lyle Lovett, Willie Nelson, K.T. Oslin, and Townes Van Zandt, to name a few.
