Metro Music: Celebrating a Century of the Trinity River Groove

Top left: Joe Johnson and hand blow the roof off the Empire Room on Hali Street, Dallas, 1954. Top right: Durelle Alexander performs on Seventh Street in downtown Fort Worth, circa 1941, with piano accompaniment by John "Knocky" Parker. Lower Left: Often called "the female Elvis." Big D Jamboree regular Charline Arthur was the hardest-workin' woman in show business. Lower right: Trailblazing guitarist Seab Meador still amazes fellow musicians and fans forty-one years after his early death.