Battle lines drawn over proposed State Music Museum in Austin
AUSTIN - During his years as a professional memorabilia collector for the Hard Rock Cafe chain, Thomas Kreason often noticed that many of Texas’ musical treasures — from rare phonograph records to celebrity guitars — were slipping out of the Lone Star State.
“It really alarmed me,” he recalls of the items that were often going into the hands of collectors in other states and countries. “I kept thinking someone would do something about it.”
Kreason and his wife, Marianne, responded by founding the Texas Musicians Museum, which operated in Hillsboro and Waxahachie before moving into a multimillion-dollar venue in Irving in 2015.
During its 13-year run, the museum has steadily amassed a wealth of Texas musical memorabilia, including an 1860s parlor guitar that once belonged to pioneer bluesman Blind Lemon Jefferson and the first recording made by a musician in Texas, Mary Carson of Houston, in 1912.
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Great article. 
There is SO much Music history in Texas..
Surely there's room for all?!
