The blues spread to Texas from the Delta in the beginning of the 20th century and eventually morphed into its own style, known fittingly as "Texas blues." Many early jazz and blues artists spent much of their careers at clubs in Deep Ellum, Dallas. A columnist is 1936 described Deep Ellum as the "one spot in the city that needs no daylight saving time because there is no bedtime ... [It is] the only place recorded on earth where business, religion, hoodooism, gambling and stealing goes on at the same time without friction ... Last Saturday a prophet held the best audience in this 'Madison Square Garden' in announcing that Jesus Christ would come to Dallas in person in 1939. At the same time a pickpocket was lifting a week's wages from another guy's pocket, who stood with open mouth to hear the prophecy." Blind Lemon Jefferson (pictured above), was one of the first to make Dallas blues famous, is known as the Father of the Texas Blues, and was a huge influence on blues music for the rest o' time. Whew.