Art&Seek presents This Week in Texas Music History. Every week, we’ll spotlight a different moment and the musician who made it. This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll resin up the bow with one of Western swing’s jazziest fiddlers.

You can also hear This Week in Texas Music History on Sunday at precisely 6:04 p.m. on KERA radio. But subscribe to the podcast so you won’t miss an episode. And our thanks to KUT public radio in Austin for helping us bring this segment to you. And if you’re a music lover, be sure to check out Track by Track, the bi-weekly podcast from Paul Slavens, host of KXT’s The Paul Slavens Show, heard Sunday night’s at 8.

• Click the player to listen to the podcast:

• Expanded online version:

From Feb. 27 through March 1, 1970, Elvis Presley performed six shows at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Elvis had earned his reputation as a dynamic entertainer during the 1950s with his energetic live shows. However, since leaving the Army in 1960, he had rarely appeared outside of Las Vegas. His electrifying performances at the Astrodome in 1970 before a combined audience of more than 200,000 helped re-establish his position as the King of Rock and Roll.

The spectacular Houston kickoff to Elvis’s 1970 national tour reflected a long relationship between Presley and the Lone Star State, a place he had visited frequently before becoming a national icon.

Next time on This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll meet the crown prince of Dallas country fiddlers.