Dallas' Deep Ellum music scene hopes to return soon, along with one of its most famous original voices "He infused Deep Ellum with an energy that I think, at its best, Deep Ellum today should aspire to," said author Alan Govenar of blues legend Blind Lemon Jefferson. Author: Kevin Reece Updated: 10:00 PM CST February 14, 2021 DALLAS — As Dallas' Deep Ellum neighborhood waits for its pandemic-delayed live music to return to its concert halls, bars and clubs, one of its very first voices could be making a return too. "This was the nexus point," documentarian, folklorist, and author Alan Govenar said of the portion of Elm Street in Deep Ellum that runs east to west under the Central Expressway. In the early 1900s, it was the heart of the Deep Ellum music scene -- a section with some of the remaining original buildings still standing on the south side of the street while high-rise office buildings and apartments went up on the other.