Marcia Ball | KNKX Studio Session

She’s a legend of blues piano, but singer-songwriter Marcia Ball is so charming you quickly consider her a good friend. In the KNKX studios, our audience cheered on Ball and her band like they were gathered for a good time on the front porch. Ball’s musical gumbo of Texas blues, boogie woogie and Louisiana funk has charmed audiences for 50 years. She was named the Official Texas State Musician for 2018, “purely ceremonial, I promise you,“ Ball told us. “I’d probably be barred from the (Texas) capital if th