The Texas Embassy is a cantina (a Tex-Mex restaurant & grill) on Cockspur Street, near Trafalgar Square named to commemorate London's Texas Legation (which is around 700 yards/metres west down Pall Mall). At one time, the restaurant's location had been the offices of the White Star Line, owners of the RMS Titanic.
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“During the cattle drives, Texas cowboy music came into national significance. Its practical purpose is well known—it was used primarily to keep the herds quiet at night, for often a ballad sung loudly and continuously enough might prevent a stampede. However, the cowboy also sang because he liked to sing.... In this music of the range and trail is “the grayness of the prairies, the mournful minor note of a Texas norther, and a rhythm that fits the gait of the cowboy’s pony.””
—Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)