- Born
- Died
- Birth nameDoie Hensley Owens
- Tex Owens was born on June 15, 1892 in Killeen, Texas, USA. He died on June 23, 1976.
- Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame (1971).
- His band was known as The Texas Rangers.
- [on the inspiration behind his hit 'Cattle Call', written in Kansas City while watching the snow fall] Watching the snow, my sympathy went out to cattle everywhere, and I just wished I could call them all around me and break some corn over a wagon wheel and feed them. That's when the words 'cattle call' came to my mind. I picked up my guitar, and in thirty minutes I had wrote the music and four verses to the song.
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