Billy Bob's Texas

Dallas has its money, the Cowboys and the Stars.

Fort Worth's got Billy Bob's, the Stockyards and the Bars.

East Texas and St. Vines, little crazy but real nice kind of falls.

But I'm headed back to the hill country lawn.

Uh, a- and, uh, it's empowering the economy, uh, through, um, really, uh, the work that we do.

It's, it's, it's, i- uh, unstoppable is really the one-word theme, and afterwards there's, like, a sub- Heading, uh, and, you know, it talks about our community really, uh, taking the lead to turn things around and, um, but the, the theme is really, it, it's a two-day conference that starts Monday evening at Billy Bob's, uh, which is a great place here in Fort Worth.

It's open to everyone.

And then Tuesday and Wednesday, you know, we have, uh, general sessions highlighting Latina entrepreneurs, education, artificial intelligence.

Miranda Lambert I like.

As a matter of fact, we're going to see Miranda Lambert in two weeks, me and mom are at Billy Bob's.

But, uh, Miranda Lambert is from, uh-

Longview

He's an incredible artist, but he does I Will Always Love You.

It's kind of the song that put him on the map, but I didn't know that because I'm talking through because Kelly Payne's dad used to play keyboard in his band, so I got to watch him at Billy Bob's, and then we've seen him.

He did a New Year's Eve in Fort Worth for the cowboy hat drop thing.

I'm going to be honest with you.

Yeah.

The Grange at Billy Bob's, Annette's Diner, Sports Van Lounge, and then Lucky Nugget.

Oh, these are all...

And then most of the quick services.

I'm thinking about taking them on and putting the highlights on my website next year, too, so we'll see if we can't work out something with NASCAR, but I love it.

And I say that you also have performed at Billy Bob's Texas.

Now they do the Texas Country Music Association Awards there too.

So I've been a member of that for a long time and Linda King Wilson and everything.

Thank you.

I've been doing it ever since I was about 10 years old.

I've been blessed with all these opportunities, and they're actually the ones who have given me the opportunity to sing at places like Dickies Arena, doing the National Anthem for them, doing the National Anthem for Billy Bob's to open up Texas Independence Jam.

I've done it for the past, I believe, four years in a row.

It's our first time to move away from Fort Worth, which is exciting and scary all at the same time because we've been here for 13 championships.

And, you know, we started over at Billy Bob's, Texas, and we had a great time there.

World's largest honky tonk, but we ran out of room there.

We moved to somewhere else in Fort Worth by a river and didn't care for that one and You know, then we were at Will Rogers and then we were at Texas Motor Speedway the last couple of years.