Director of the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University
Jason Mellard is a Director of the Center for Texas Music History and Assistant Professor of Practice in History at Texas State University. He is the author of Progressive Country: How the 1970s Transformed the Texan in Popular Culture and contributor to the books Pickers and Poets: The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas, It Can Be This Way Always: Images of the Kerrville Folk Festival, and Daddy-O's Book of Big Ass art on the Texas artist Bob Wade. He co The Journal of Texas Music History and composes the weekly radio program This Week in Texas Music History.
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