The Best of Texas Folklore

Hear the funny, inspirational papers that were spoken at annual meetings of the legendary Texas Folklore Society (TFS). These collections put the listener in the audience to hear Society members talking up a Texas tempest on the state's wide-ranging folk and lore. The East Texas String Ensemble entertains between speakers. Volume 1 is introduced by singer/songwriter Michael Martin Murphey. Volume 2 is introduced by a TFS member and a legend himself, Elmer Kelton, who in 1995 was named the greatest Western author of all time by Western Writers of America.

Members of this legendary organization "talk fancy" about Texas peddlers, fly paper, funeral homes, horny toads, Jesse James, possums, babies, grandparents, cow chips, crazy women in the rafters, dogwood hoops, windmills that "steal air," early radio DJs and much, much more!

Elmer Kelton - Paul Patterson: Teacher, Mentor, Friend
Tom Breedlove - A Fly Paper
Phyllis Bridges - La Quinceañera: Hispanic Folk Custom
Georgia Caraway - Texas Kitsch and Other Collectibles
Kenneth Davis - Peddlers in the 1930 s / Pepe s Panaderia: Bread Lore
Patrick Dearen - Somewhere Over the Pecos: A Patterson Oz
Jim Harris - Texans on the Road: The Folklore of Travel
L. Patrick Hughes - Praising Potted Pork Parts: Austin s Spamarama
James Ward Lee - Talking Fancy / Hell Is for Heroes
Faye Leeper - Technology and Fast Foods Can Speed Up Aging
Becky Matthews - E-Lore
Archie McDonald - Uppity Women
Wildwood Dean Price - Survival Value in Fannin County, Texas
Joyce Gibson Roach - Baby Lore / Horny Toads in Fact, Fiction and Folklore
Mildred Sentell - Funeral Homes in Small West Texas Towns
Evelyn Stroder - Paul Patterson, Master Teacher
Lucy Fischer West - Three Decades with John O.
Henry Wolff Jr. - Madame Blackley: Seer of South Texas