Dance Time in Texas
A weekly show featuring the Top Texas Red Dirt songs packing the dance floors
Featured Artist • Tasman Sharp
Born in Canberra, Australia, and named after the Tasman Sea, Tasman Sharp spent his early years traveling overseas before his family eventually settled in his mother’s hometown of New Braunfels, Texas. That’s where a young kid with a guitar, a passion for music, and a membership at School of Rock began turning that passion into a career.
In 2021, Tasman won the Battle of the Bands, earning his first major stage opportunity opening for Grammy winners Shenandoah. Since then, he’s toured throughout Kansas and Oklahoma, performed on the Austin Marathon VIP stage, and built a following at iconic Texas venues including Gruene Hall and the Gristmill.
Tasman has since released his debut album, A Good Life, earned Young Artist of the Year nominations from the Texas Country Music Association and Josie Music Awards, and used his music to help raise thousands of dollars for veterans and first responders.
Now, he continues to sharpen his guitar skills while writing and recording new music at Beagle’s Nest Records in New Braunfels, creating songs rooted in the Texas sound he now proudly calls home.
His newest release, “Hard to Heal,” currently climbing the charts, captures the raw emotion and grit of trying to move on after a broken relationship. With a heavy country-rock edge and vulnerable lyrics about heartbreak and healing, it’s another strong example of the sound Tasman Sharp is carving out for himself in the Texas music scene.
TOP Texas Red Dirt Songs
1. Never Really Mine - Kaitlin Butts
2. What Cowboys Do - Curtis Grimes
3. Hard to Write a Love Song - Mike Ryan
4. Highway Robbery - Jason Scott & The High Heat
5. Hard Time Moving On - The Great Divide
6. Down By The River - Seth Candan
8. Floorboard Full of Roses - David Lewis
9. Take It Easy Cowgirl - Aaron Loy
10. Whiskey After Women - Adyson Malek
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CHART RESEARCH
Song rankings are determined by the Texas Country Music Chart and the CDX Nashville Traction TX Chart, the officially recognized charts of the Texas Country Music Association.