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Texas Red
12+ albums
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Paul "Texas Red" Halperin "Texas Red is about the biggest blues hellraiser you'll ever meet..." --Bob Corritore The Rhythm Room, "Those Lowdown Blues" on KJZZ, blues harmonica player --Phoenix, Arizona Paul Halperin was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. Growing up in south central Texas in the 1950's, he began hearing Jimmy Reed on the AM radio, and he often heard blues performers at San Antonio's legendary Eastwood Country Club. Living in Austin in the mid-60's, he saw Muddy Waters at one of the city's first live music clubs. To this day, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, and the South Texas Shuffle style are the foundations of Halperin's music Halperin has often said, "Blues is all I ever wanted to play." His first blues band, The Blues Kings, was formed in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1971, and it became the first in a series of bands that he has fronted as lead singer and rhythm guitarist. The following year, The Blues Kings changed its name to Terraplane. When the band members decided to have nicknames, Halperin, because of his Texas roots and reddish hair, adopted the name Paul "Texas Red" Hart. Since that time he's been known as "Tex," or "Red." In Louisville in 1973, Tex put together a five-piece blues band with two guitars, harmonica, bass, and drums, debuting under the name Texas Red and the Hartbreakers. After instant regional success in 1974, and a thwarted attempt to move the band to Austin, Texas, members went their separate ways. The outgrowth of Texas Red and the
