Where’s FourWallsdo?: Hello Texas

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Howdy from a place I’ve never been before: the Texas panhandle!! I’m on my way for more Route 66 excitement today, but first, another song that’s a musical pin in the roadmap on this trip. Here’s one I can’t wait for NJ Chic to “nope” me on. Hello Texas - Jimmy Buffett This is the 9th song on side 5 of his two-record set “Hey, Where’d That Come From?” Truthfully, this never appeared on a Buffett album. It was recorded for the soundtrack to the film Urban Cowboy. I don’t understand (and if you look at the comment on YouTube proclaiming this rocker as “real country music” you’ll be equally confused), but hey, there it was. (Irving Azoff, the manager, was central in getting the music cleared for the movie, and he was Buffett’s manager at the time, along with others who showed up like Boz Scaggs, Joe Walsh, and the Eagles.) So here you have a rockin’ number from the Mayor of Margaritaville in a movie about country music bars. Go figure. But I love it. Hello Texas Written by Brian Collins and Robby Campbell Recorded by Jimmy Buffett From Urban Cowboy (soundtrack), 1980 I left a part of my heart somewhere in the Lone Star State: