El Paso, Texas

Everything El Paso is known for

129 songs mention this city 87 artists from here

El Paso, Texas, a city known for its vibrant border culture and location at the foot of the Franklin Mountains, boasts a diverse musical identity. With 87 artists calling it home, the city has produced talents across various genres. For instance, Khalid, an R&B artist, hails from El Paso, as do the indie bands Cigarettes After Sex and The Mars Volta. The city is also mentioned in 140 songs, including the classic "Feleena (From El Paso)" by Marty Robbins and "El Paso City" also by Marty Robbins.

Music in El Paso

Songs About El Paso

Feleena (From El Paso)
Marty Robbins
95%
Down By The River
Ray Wylie Hubbard
93%
"Gonna cross the Santa Fe Bridge"
el paso
bryce canyon wrangler
90%
El Paso
Madisons
90%
The Legend of Chavo Guerrero
Mountain Goats
84%
"Born down in El Paso where the tumbleweeds blow"
El Paso Train
Jeremy Castle
83%
El Paso
R.W. Hampton
83%
El Paso
Kyle Park
83%
El Paso (King of the Hill O.S.T.)
Old 97's
83%
El Paso City
Marty Robbins
83%
"The west Texas city of El Paso"
El Paso
Tom Russell
83%
"Out in the West Texas town of El Paso"
El Paso
Jenna Paulette
81%
"Pulling me back to El Paso"
El Paso
The Madisons
81%
"El Paso died along with her bless their soul"
Lassoed In El Paso
Cowboys & Indians
81%
El Paso
Charlie Marie
80%
"El Paso was where we met"
El Paso
Grateful Dead
80%
"Out in the West Texas town of El Paso"
Arsehole from El Paso (Live)
Kinky Friedman
80%
El Paso (feat. Ben Truman)
Bryce Canyon Wranglers
80%
Faleena (From El Paso)
Marty Robbins
80%
"One cowboy mentioned the town of El Paso"
El Paso
The Gourds
79%
"El Paso I'm goin' to"

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Artists From El Paso

C
Cigarettes After Sex
indie Pop: 83
K
Khalid
r-n-b Pop: 82
A
At the Drive‐In
electronic Pop: 62
.
...this Life
metal Pop: 57
S
Solido
latin Pop: 51
M
Mars Volta
rock Pop: 50
T
The Mars Volta
indie Pop: 50
V
Vikki Carr
pop Pop: 50
G
Gunplay
hip-hop Pop: 47
A
At the Drive-In
indie Pop: 46
L
Little King
rock Pop: 45
l
late night drive home
rock Pop: 45
T
The Bobby Fuller Four
rock Pop: 42
R
Riot Ten
electronic Pop: 42
D
De Facto
indie Pop: 40
H
Hoodboi
electronic Pop: 40
R
Randy Van Horne
other Pop: 40
P
Phil Ochs
folk Pop: 39
D
Debbie Reynolds
pop Pop: 38
S
Sparta
indie Pop: 36

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Rivers & Roads in Song near El Paso

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near El Paso.

Interstate 10 23 songs Rio Grande / Río Bravo 83 songs Rio Grande / Río Bravo 144 songs

History of El Paso

Assassination of John Wesley Hardin — El Paso, Texas, 1895 RoadyGoat

1895

El Paso, August nineteenth, eighteen ninety-five. John Wesley Hardin was standing at the bar of the Acme Saloon on San Antonio Street, rolling dice, his back to the door. He had killed more than forty men across Texas in the eighteen seventies, served sixteen years in Huntsville Prison, studied law, passed the bar exam, and set up a practice in El Paso. None of that saved him. A constable named John Selman walked in behind him and put a bullet through the back of his head. Hardin was dead before he hit the floor. Selman was tried for murder and acquitted. He was shot and killed himself eight months later in a different El Paso alley by a different man with a different grudge. The Acme Saloon is gone. The block looks ordinary. El Paso kept moving.

The World's Biggest Inland Salt-Water Plant RoadyGoat

2007

El Paso sits in the high desert, hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean, which makes the next fact a little absurd: the city runs the world's largest inland desalination plant. It's called the Kay Bailey Hutchison Desalination Plant, it opened in 2007, and it can produce up to 27.5 million gallons of fresh water a day. Here's the twist that makes it possible. There is no sea here to desalt. Instead, the plant pulls salty water straight up from underground, from aquifers beneath the desert floor, and removes the salt from that. So a city famous for being dry has quietly become a world leader in making salt water drinkable, using a resource that was sitting under everyone's feet the whole time. When most people picture desalination, they imagine a plant perched on a coastline, drawing in the tide. This one sits in the desert, miles from any shore, turning hidden underground brine into water that comes out of the tap.

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Pushing Salt Out of Water With Pressure RoadyGoat

The heart of the El Paso plant is a process called reverse osmosis, and to get it you first have to picture ordinary osmosis. Imagine a special membrane, a barrier with pores so tiny only water molecules slip through, with fresh water on one side and salty water on the other. Left alone, nature does something surprising: water drifts on its own toward the saltier side, trying to even out the saltiness. That natural drift is osmosis. Reverse osmosis flips it on its head. Engineers take the salty water and shove it against the membrane under enormous pressure, hard enough to overpower that natural pull and force pure water molecules through the tiny pores the wrong way. The salt, too big to fit, gets left behind. So fresh water collects on the far side and concentrated salt stays back. In a single phrase: pressure beats nature. You push hard enough, and clean drinkable water comes squeezing out the other side while the salt stays trapped where it started.

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Texas Western 1966 - Glory Road

1966

On March 19, 1966, Texas Western College (now UTEP) started five Black players against all-white Kentucky in the NCAA championship game, winning 72-65 and changing college sports forever.

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John Wesley Hardin - El Paso

1853

John Wesley Hardin, considered the deadliest gunfighter in the Old West, was shot and killed in the Acme Saloon in El Paso on August 19, 1895.

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The Camino Real

1598

For more than 200 years the Camino Real, or Royal Road, was the major route for transporting commercial goods from Mexico City and Chihuahua to Santa Fe and Taos. First traveled by Juan de Onate during his 1598 expedition to New Mexico, the Camino Real followed the San Elizario, Socorro, and Ysleta Road, crossed the Rio Grande west of present downtown El Paso, and continued north into New Mexico. When the Rio Grande was established as the U.S. - Mexico boundary in 1848, this section of the old Camino Real became part of the United States. (1983)

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El Paso del Norte

1581

As they approached the Rio Grande from the south, Spanish explorers in the colonial period viewed two mountain ranges rising out of the desert with a deep chasm between. This site they named El Paso del Norte (the Pass of the North), and it became the location of two future border cities, Ciudad Juárez on the south or right bank of the Rio Grande and El Paso, Texas, on the opposite side of the river. The arrival of the first Spanish expedition at the Pass of the North in 1581 marked the beginning of more than 400 years of history in the El Paso area. It was followed in 1598 by the colonizing expedition under Juan de Oñate . On April 30, 1598, in a ceremony at a site near present San Elizario, Oñate took formal possession of the entire territory drained by the Rio Grande and brought Spanish civilization to the Pass of the North. In 1659 Fray García de San Francisco founded Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Mission, which still stands in downtown Ciudad Juárez, the oldest structure in the El Paso area. The Pueblo revolt of 1680 sent Spanish colonists and Tigua Indians of New Mexico fleeing southward to take refuge at the Pass. By 1682 five settlements were founded south of the river-El Paso del Norte, San Lorenzo, Senecú, Ysleta, and Socorro, thus providing the Pass with a concentration of population from that time to the present. A presidio was built in 1684. The area became a trade center on one of the historic caminos reales , or royal highways, and agriculture flourished, particularly the vineyards, producing wine and brandy that ranked in quality with the best in the realm. When Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821 the El Paso area and what is now the American Southwest became a part of the Mexican nation. The municipal council of El Paso del Norte granted land north of the Rio Grande to Juan María Ponce de León , and it became a thriving agricultural and ranching enterprise; his land is now the site of downtown El Paso. With the outbreak of hostilities between the United States and Mexico in May 1846, Col. Alexander Doniphan and his Missouri volunteers defeated the Mexicans at the battle of Brazito, entered El Paso del Norte, and occupied the city of Chihuahua in early 1847. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of February 2, 1848, fixed the boundary between the two nations at the Rio Grande, and thus El Paso del Norte, the future Ciudad Juárez, became a bordertown. By late 1849, aided by the gold rush to California, five settlements had been established by Anglo-Americans north of the river, one of them, known as Franklin, on the ranch of former proprietor, Ponce de León. In 1859, however, pioneer Anson Mills named this settlement El Paso, thus generating considerable confusion that lasted for almost thirty years. During the period of the French intervention in Mexico the republican cause under the leadership of Benito Juárez took refuge in El Paso del Norte in August 1865 and remained there for almost a year. With the aid of American arms and munitions the tide began to turn in favor of the Juárez republicans, who returned to Mexico City in triumph in 1867. On September 16, 1888, El Paso del Norte was renamed Ciudad Juárez, and thus the historic name El Paso became the sole possession of the bustling little railroad town at the western tip of Texas.

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El Paso, TX

1535

El Paso is at the far western tip of Texas, where New Mexico and the Mexican state of Chihuahua meet in a harsh desert environment around the slopes of Mount Franklin on the Rio Grande, which has often been compared to the Nile. As they approached the Rio Grande from the south, Spaniards in the sixteenth century viewed two mountain ranges rising out of the desert with a deep chasm between. This site they named El Paso del Norte (the Pass of the North), the future location of two border cities-Ciudad Juárez on the south or right bank of the Rio Grande, and El Paso, Texas, on the opposite side of the river. Since the sixteenth century the pass has been a continental crossroads; a north-south route along a historic camino real prevailed during the Spanish and Mexican periods, but traffic shifted to an east-west axis in the years following 1848, when the Rio Grande became an international boundary. The El Paso area was inhabited for centuries by various Indian groups before the Spaniards came. The first Europeans in all probability were Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his three companions, survivors of an unsuccessful Spanish expedition to Florida, who passed through the El Paso area in 1535 or 1536, although their exact route is debated by historians. Several years later, in 1540-42, an expedition under Francisco Vázquez de Coronado explored an enormous amount of territory now known as the American Southwest. The first party of Spaniards that certainly saw the Pass of the North was the Rodríguez-Sánchez expedition of 1581; its arrival marked the beginning of 400 years of history in the El Paso area. This was followed by the Espejo-Beltrán expedition ( see ESPEJO, ANTONIO DE ) of 1582 and the historic colonizing expedition under Juan de Oñate , who, on April 30, 1598, in a ceremony at a site near that of present San Elizario, took formal possession of the entire territory drained by the Río del Norte (the Rio Grande). This act, called La Toma, or "the claiming," brought Spanish civilization to the Pass of the North and laid the foundations of more than two centuries of Spanish rule over a vast area. In the late 1650s Fray García founded the mission of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe on the south bank of the Rio Grande; it still stands in downtown Ciudad Juárez. The Pueblo Indian Revolt of 1680 sent Spanish colonists and Tigua Indians of New Mexico fleeing southward to take refuge at the pass, transplanting the names of New Mexico river pueblos, including La Isleta and Socorro, to the El Paso area. On October 12, 1680, midway between the Spanish settlement of Santísimo Sacramento and the Indian settlement of San Antonio, the first Mass in Texas was celebrated at a site near that of present Ysleta, which was placed on what is now the Texas side by the shifting river in 1829; Ysleta thus has a claim to being the oldest town in Texas. By 1682 five settlements had been founded in a chain along the south bank of the Rio Grande-El Paso del Norte, San Lorenzo, Senecú, Ysleta, and Socorro. By the middle of the eighteenth century about 5,000 people lived in the El Paso area-Spaniards, mestizos ( see MESTIZO ) and Indians-the largest complex of population on the Spanish northern frontier. A large dam and a series of acequias (irrigation ditches) made possible a flourishing agriculture. The large number of vineyards produced wine and brandy said to have ranked with the best in the realm. In 1789 the presidio of San Elizario was founded to help in the defense of the El Paso settlements against the Apaches. With the establishment of Mexican independence from Spain in 1821 ( see MEXICAN TEXAS ), the El Paso area and what is now the American Southwest became a part of the Mexican nation. Agriculture, ranching, and commerce continued to flourish, but the Rio Grande frequently overflowed its banks, causing great damage to fields, crops, and adobe structures. In 1829 the unpredictable river flooded much of the lower Rio Grande valley and formed a

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Franklin Mountains

The Franklin Mountains rise straight out of downtown El Paso and split the city in half. The exposed rock at the core is over a billion years old -- some of…

Everything Near El Paso

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