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This Week in Texas Music History: Troy Floyd

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

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Texasmusic_small For the first week of January (1/5): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an artist who performed in one of the first African American bands to record in Texas.

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