![]() “That makes it unique in the world, even now.” ![]() “I bet you could hear 10 or 20 styles of music in Deep Ellum, anytime,” says Crockett, who spent time busking in New Orleans and New York before returning to the Dallas/Fort Worth area and building a fanbase. Both are parts of their cities’ histories dating back to the 1800s: The Stockyards was an original livestock trading center, and Deep Ellum was one of Dallas’ first commercial districts for African Americans that, many iterations later, became a countercultural hub for punks and misfits in the Eighties and Nineties.Īrtists like Leon Bridges and Charley Crockett spent the last decade proving that relentless gigging in the small bars and venues in Deep Ellum and around Dallas/Fort Worth can launch a musician into broader fame and national tours. ![]() You’d be hard-pressed to find two places in more direct cultural opposition than the Fort Worth Stockyards and Dallas’ Deep Ellum neighborhood.
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