Joe W. Specht

About the presenter

Joe W. Specht is emeritus director of the Jay-Rollins Library at McMurry University. He is the author of The Women There Don’t Treat You Mean: Abilene in Song (State House Press, 2006; revised and expanded edition, Texas Star Trading Company, 2017) and As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls … in Song (Prairie Dog Blues Publishing, 2013).

He is also co-editor of The Roots of Texas Music (Texas A&M University Press, 2003) and Abilene Stories: From Then to Now (ACU Press, 2013).