Question: What Texas town is known as the “Birthplace of Boogie Woogie”?
Answer: Marshall. In the 1870s, the town became the headquarters of the Texas & Pacific Railway Company, and many black laborers worked in the logging camps that sprang up throughout the area. Most camps had a barrel house with a piano where workers gathered for entertainment at night. It was in this environment that the genre developed, with a driving bass rhythm that mimics the sound of a fast-moving locomotive.
