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This Week in Texas Music History: Erbie Bowser

From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
Length: 01:40

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For the first week of May (5/5): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the journey one musician made from the fields of west Texas, to the bright lights of Carnegie hall. Read the full description.

Erbie-580x454_small For the first week of May (5/5): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the journey one musician made from the fields of west Texas, to the bright lights of Carnegie hall.

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