Sunday, November 16, 2025 | 2:00 PM | Texas Music Museum
Bill and Bobbie Malone have been co-conspirators in writing and performing for almost fifty years. Bill, a former Tulane University history professor, wrote Country Music USA – the groundbreaking scholarship in country music studies – in 1968, which eventually became the basis for Ken Burns' PBS documentary, Country Music. Bill's performing career began in Austin during the 1960s folk revival with contemporaries such as Janis Joplin, Powell St. John and Lanny Wiggins at the fabled Threadgill's Tavern. Bobbie, a renowned writer, artist and historian herself, has written a myriad of local history books spent 25 years working at the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Together, the Malones have hosted a longstanding radio program on Madison, Wisconsin's WORT-FM and published biographical books about country music stars. Their most recent book – Riders in the Sky: Romancing the West with Music and Humor – follows the journey of the band who revived the American tradition of the singing cowboy.
We are excited to welcome Bill and Bobbie to the Texas Music Museum on November 16th for an afternoon of music and conversation on Texas country music!
