It won’t shock you to read that we at Texas Monthly consider Texas to be an inspiring place. We’re hardly alone in that: The number of all-time-great songs about our state is staggering, with classics both old (“All My Ex’s Live in Texas,” “Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love),” and new (“Texas Hold ’Em,” “Texas Sun”). These songs resonate not just from Beaumont to El Paso but around the world, serving as four-minute sonic ambassadors for the mythos of the larger-than-life place we call home. But it’s an even more specific subcategory of Texas-themed songs that brings us here today: Ones named, simply, “Texas.” Those that strip things down to the absolute core, approaching their subject with the self-assuredness that no context beyond the…
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