Artist Biography by Eugene Chadbourne. The Longoria family dynasty in Tex-Mex music begins in the 1920s in a Mississippi cotton field, with no one in the large family of Valerio Longoria Sr. aware that a master musician was growing up in their midst.
Detroit is nicknamed motor city because it has been the center of the American automotive industry for more than a century. Henry Ford located his first assembly line in Detroit. Detroit was the key hub for auto manufacturing for much of the 20th Century.
Lubbock has been called the âHub City of the Plainsâ because the city is the economic engine of the South Plains. By at least 1996, bumper stickers declared that Lubbock was the âHub of the Plainsâ because a hub is âthe slowest moving part of a wheel.â. Wikipedia: Lubbock, Texas. Lubbock (IPA: /âlÊbÉk/) is an American city in the state of Texas.