This week in Texas music history, Bob Dylan finds his Texas accent..

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By Jason Mellard from the Center for Texas Music History at Texas State University .

On June 5, 1999, Austin guitarist Charlie Sexton joined Bob Dylan’s band. Their paths had been a long time crossing. The two first met in the early 1980s when Charlie was a teenager doing session work with the likes of Ron Wood and Keith Richards, and they shared stages in Austin during Dylan performances there in 1991 and 1996. In his twenties then, Charlie and his brother Will had been musical prodigies in a city that took such talent seriously, seasoned veterans at an early age. Charlie Sexton toured with Joe Ely at age thirteen, and sat in with British

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