This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll remember a singer whose song about a bird “flew” up the charts not once, but twice.

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll recall two brothers whose musical skills helped take a popular genre of folk music to a whole new level.

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll visit a dance hall that was built to help celebrate an important African-American holiday.

Today in the roundup: The Girls from Girdleville are back, David McCullough talks Paris and testing the 10,000 hours of practice theory.

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll meet a musician who is finally living up to his name.

Last night we passed along news that KXT 91.7 FM has hired a new programming director, Mark Abuzzahab, and we promised to have a little Q&A with him in the morning. And we keep our promises:

After an extensive search, our friends upstairs at KXT 91.7 FM have hired Mark Abuzzahab as the station’s new Program Director. Mark comes to us from KGSR in Austin, where he served as Music Director.

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll celebrate a Texas singer who is as popular abroad as he is here at home.

On Friday, we gave you Part I of a new series called Conversations with Bert. If you liked that, check out Part II, which also features Andy Samberg.

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll learn about a pioneering artist who blended Native-American music with pop, blues, country, and jazz.