Rock and Roll in Texas.

For the assignment I attended a Blue October concert at The Back Room here in Austin. My personal favorite musical genre is rock, and Blue October is a Houston rock band. They have a cult-like following and have recently gotten a lot of radio airtime so I was excited to attend. While not technically "Texas music", the band falls into the category of "Texans in music" because its members are Houston natives. The band started …

…considerably less with most of the other Texas musical styles that we have discussed. It is faster and targeted at a narrower, younger audience, but lacks themes pertaining to a particular race or class. Many of their songs might be considered ballads, so they might share this similarity with corridos. On the other hand, they lack call and response or 12-bar blues characteristics, and have very little in common with cowboy or progressive country music.