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I As an accounting major at Texas Tech University,
Qnry Morrow played his guitar and sang the songs of
Texas, music he said is “inspired by musicians who
wire born and bred in this country of Texas.”
I For the last 15 years, this singer/songwriter has
be n watching Texas music grow and become a popu
lar fonn of musical expression. In the mid-1990s, he
■gan contributing his own brand of talent and has
turned his passion into profit while touring across the
s4te performing and writing songs.
I Midway through his junior year. Morrow left col
lege and moved to Austin to find success as a
stiger/songwriter.
I The Houston native grew up on rock and roll —
Be/ Zeppelin IV is one of his favorite albums — but
m de the personal discovery of Texas music when he
first heard Robert Earl Keen and Jerry Jeff Walker 15
years ago.
■ He said he still listens to hard rock, but his openness
to variety has made for a robust musical background.
I “You can’t draw the line; if you draw The line,
you re not keeping your horizons broad and you're
nit expanding your mind to anything,” Morrow said.
“Ivery kind of music has its own unique quality and
has something special about it, because hopefully
thi people that wrote it had something special that
they wanted to say with their music and a point they
wanted to get across.”
I Morrow writes country songs. From his lonely,
Texas drawl to his casually-strummed acoustic guitar,
his songs swing about as far from the metal and may
hem of rock as one can go.
■ When writing a song. Morrow said his focus is
simple; the result is evocative, clear and undeniable
niiratives on what he knows, ideas he has and what
hfe feels.
j»“l add my interpretation to the life down here in
Tfwand all the uniqueness of the little towns and the
p|>ple that make their living farming and ranching;
my interpretation of a good time on a Texas river or
honky tonk,” Morrow said.
And he likes what he writes.
His Website listed his own CD, Double Exposure,
among his favorite albums. He said this was not
pomp or arrogance on his part, but a matter of
believing in oneself, and at the time, he was very
proud of that work. Whenever he records a CD, he
will listen to it for about three weeks before moving
on to distribute it, and during that time, “it's my
favorite album,” he said.
“You’ve got to like it in order to expect any
body else to like it,” Morrow said. “How are you
going to sell yourself and what you are singing
about if you don’t really like it?”
During his time at Tech, Morrow had a ^
friend named Pat Green, a fellow
singer/songwriter who has had success of
his own. The pair tried to establish a
musical partnership, but both were
unwilling to share the spotlight and ^
the arrangement did not last, but the
friendship did.
In 2000, Morrow and Green
teamed up again to record Songs We
Wish We’d Written, which sold 60,000
copies.
“It’s fun to be able to do projects
like that together and still have our own
kind of music that’s personal for our
lives,” Morrow said. “He and I have been
talking about [working together more] and
we really want to do another album, and we'd
like to do some more events together.”
Somewhere along the way. Morrow met Lloyd
Maines, a producer and musician who has worked
with Texas legends Jerry Jeff Walker, Robert Earl
Keen and Joe Ely. Maines is also father to Natalie
Maines, lead singer of the Dixie Chicks.
See Morrow on page 6A
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