There's a new album out from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation, which has collaborated with a branding studio in Austin called Butler. Houston native and musician Walker Lukens is the producer.

Ella wrote the song with her friend and Texas native Miranda Lambert, and the catchy hook was inspired by Miranda herself.

It won’t shock you to read that we at Texas Monthly consider Texas to be an inspiring place. We’re hardly alone in that: The number of all-time-great songs about our state is staggering, with classics ...

On Friday, Oct. 17, Ella Langley released a new song called “Choosin’ Texas,” a track about Texans loyalty to their state. In the song, Langley tells a story about how she couldn’t keep her man, a ...

Amarillo's favorite son left Texas for Oklahoma City, but still released two critically-acclaimed albums in 2025.

Willie Nelson, as pictured on the cover of the 2003 release Essential Willie Nelson. His "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" comes in at no. 4 on the list. Rather than limiting ourselves to songs that are ...

Collaboration of the Year: "Pienso En Ti," Texas Latino and Monica Saldívar There’s more to Houston with the Chronicle.

Texas enjoys a high number of iconic, globally known cultural fixtures: cowboys, bluebonnets, the Alamo, Beyoncé. Unfortunately, the toll natives pay for such a well-stocked trophy room of state pride ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- The Texas chapter of the NAACP and a group of students have filed a federal civil rights complaint against the University of Texas for its continued use of school song "The Eyes of ...

Fight songs fire up the fans, specially a good one. Fight songs unify with a common tune everyone knows and can sing and cheer together. They are the best kind of sing-alongs. For alumni, fight songs ...

Rather than limiting ourselves to songs that are about Texas, we defined a Texas song as any song performed by a Texas artist. Who qualified? Anyone who was born here, even if he or she left the state ...