Drive 20 minutes southwest from the cypress canopied bayous of Caddo Lake and you’ll arrive in Marshall, a quintessential ...

Muddy Waters sang it, so it’s got to be true: “The blues done had a baby, and they named the baby rock and roll.” Hold on just a minute, says legendary Houston pianist Ezra Charles, who arrives Sunday ...

MARSHALL, Texas (KTAL/KSHV) – The second annual Boogie Woogie Festival is back in Marshall, Texas, bringing local food, good company and a tribute to a foundational genre. Alan Loudermilk, the founder ...

Not many cities can claim that a particular type of music originated within its limits. But Marshall can do just that. According to historians, the Boogie Woogie style was started around the 1870s in ...

Texas boogie-woogie blues singer Marcia Ball may have been the perfect choice for Saturday’s first-ever concert at the new Levitt Pavilion at the SteelStacks entertainment complex in south Bethlehem.

In East Texas before the Civil War, cotton was king and so was timber, as there were vast forests of longleaf pine trees covering eastern Texas. The lumber from the trees was an ideal building ...

MARSHALL, Texas - Omar Sharriff thought boogie-woogie piano was his one-way ticket out of town. When he left Marshall in 1955, he never looked back, even as his life narrowed from big shows to a dingy ...

This Christmas, Marshall, Texas, is giving itself a musical legend. It could be the perfect gift for a town that just declared itself boogie-woogie's birthplace. And as with the best holiday tales, ...

Warning! This article contains possible SPOILERS about The Masked Singer season 13.It's down to the Lucky 6 on The Masked Singer, and fans are certain they know the identity of Boogie Woogie, ...