Let's Talk Texas .. Country Style! Quiz

Answer: Ernest Tubb

Ernest Tubb, Roy Acuff and Minnie Pearl appeared as themselves in the 1980 biographical film of the life of Loretta Lynn, who was played by Sissy Spacek.

Tubb has been inducted into the Grand Ole Opry, the Texas Music Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame.

Answer: Mark Chesnutt

Chorus:

"Blame it on Texas, don't blame it on me
I am what I am, and that's what I'm gonna be
You can say what you wanna say
'Bout my insanity
Blame it on Texas, don't blame it on me"

Chesnutt has released forty-six singles including nine number ones and seventeen music videos. He was one of many guest appearances in the late George Jones' video, "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair".

Answer: Restless Heart

Beginning of chorus:

"The bluest eyes in Texas
Are haunting me tonight
Like the stars that fill the midnight sky
Her memory fills my mind"

Co-writer, the late Van Stephenson from the country trio Blackhawk, dated a girl in high school until her family moved to Texas; the song lyrics go from there, becoming the band's fifth number one hit.

Answer: Little Texas

This song took the number four spot in 1993. The band's release of twenty singles includes their only number one hit, "My Love" from 1994.

Answer: Joe Diffie

Second portion of chorus:

"The night she left me in Amarillo
I cried crocodile tears in my pillow
The bigger they are, the harder they fall
How could a blue-eyed beauty only five foot three
Lay a Texas size heartache, on me"

A number four song for Diffie from his thirty-six released singles which includes five number one hits.

Answer: Tracy Lawrence

Chorus:

"My little Texas tornado
Blowin' me away again
I swore it wouldn't happen again
But I looked at you and then
I'm like a tumbleweed
In a wild west Texas wind
You're blowin' me away, again"

Lawrence's number one song among eight others, from a total of forty-five released singles and thirty-one music videos.

Answer: Ed Bruce

Below is the chorus from this number six song written by Ed Bruce and Ronnie Rogers:

"My first taste of Texas
Had blue eyes and golden hair
Beneath the Tennessee silver moon
We found a feelin' we could share
And age made no difference
We're still around and love's still young
My first taste of Texas
Still lingers in my heart and on my tongue"

Bruce and wife Patsy, composed the number one song made famous by Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, "Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys", also included on Bruce's 1976 self-titled album.

Answer: Tanya Tucker

Chorus:

"When I die, I may not go to heaven
I don't know if they let cowboys in
If they don't, just let me go to Texas, Boy!
Texas is as close as I've been"

Ed and Patsy Bruce are co-writers for Tucker's number five song from her sixty-six released singles.

Answer: George Strait

George has certainly been around leaving behind a trail of broken hearts across the Lone Star state; his eleventh number one hit single opens with the chorus:

"All my ex's live in Texas
And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be
But all my ex's live in Texas
And that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee"

Answer: Alabama

Out of Alabama's thirty-three number one songs, their fourteenth hit opens with the chorus:

"If you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band
That lead guitar is hot but not for "Louisiana Man"
So rosin up that bow for "Faded Love" and let's all dance
If you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band"