 In 1976, Tex was one of the musicians at the Vandalia Gathering in central West Virginia which was inaugurated by the West Virginia Department of Culture and History headed by Norman Fagan.Many black and white traditional musicians as well as bluegrass bands were featured at the gathering.When folk musician Bob Martin moved to West Virginia in the 1970s he became good friends with Tex and worked on a documentary film on Tex's life directed by Boston filmmaker Bo Zabierek, which premiered at the 1990 Virginia Festival of American Film where the theme of the festival was "Music in the Movies."