This week's cover: Deep Ellum Celebrates 150 Years As the Soul of Dallas
Govenar says Deep Ellum's story starts with the roads that led there, starting in 1872 when the first railroad came through Dallas with the Houston and Texas Central lines. These rails provided an access to the city that fueled Deep Ellum's expansion with a steady stream of people for years to come.
"[Jefferson] was definitively the most successful, down-home country-blues singer of his generation and was profoundly influential to the growth of American pop music," Govenar says."Blind Lemon only played on street corners when he was in Dallas even when he was successful." The Deep Ellum scene is an anomaly of music culture because the venues and acts that played and still play there never adopted a uniform sound or style.
"That was our watering hole," says Bruce Sweedberg, a bartender at the Neon Kitten and Blackbird Society speakeasy."When Wits closed, it took a toll on everyone in the neighborhood. The Green Room was the same. It was one of our hideaways." "Large crowds in any dense area provide challenges," Lowman says."The use of cameras for surveillance and oversight have helped us to maintain crowd control and prevent and solve crimes in Deep Ellum and across the city."Funk-rocker Ducado VeGA says his inclusion in Deep Ellum 100’s live show in honor of the neighborhood’s 150th anniversary celebration showed him how much he missed being on stage.
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