Fort Worth Weekly
Metro Musicians
A newly published retrospective on North Texas music saves ample space for iconic and lesser-known Fort Worth musicians and songwriters.
By Edward Brown
Courtesy of TCU Press
While some early-20th-century North Texas singers and musicians were fortunate to gain a modicum of fame through airtime on radio shows, most dance band members, fiddlers, and singers were content to drum up a living gigging in dance halls and other music-friendly venues.
Those early tales (and more recent music history) are compiled in TCU Press’ newly released
Metro Music: Celebrating a Century of the Trinity River Groove. The book highlights the musicians and bands that shaped and defined local music throughout much of the 20th century. Largely unpublished photos tell much of that story, and a rightful share of the book’s 270 pages are saved for influential, or simply interesting, Fort Worth musicians.