All proceeds went to the Bob Wills Foundation. There was also live music last Thursday and Friday from western swing favourites Roberts, Joe Settlemires and Billy Mata. The popularity of Bob Wills ...

Bob Wills was ... influenced by the music his African-American friends sang in the cotton fields and later by Hispanic musicians in New Mexico. And he was influenced by “swing” music—an ...

Western Swing originated in Texas, and the first big stars of this exciting new music were Milton Brown and Bob Wills. Both started out as members of The Aladdin Laddies and The Light Crust ...

Lone Star favorites Reckless Kelly and Randy Rogers team up with Shooter Jennings on the classic tribute, "Bob Wills is Still the King." George Strait was one of the few mainstream artists who ...

With authentic Western swing bands, a wooden dance floor and ... whose band has helped keep alive the music of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.

One of the most influential figures in country music history, the legendary Bob Wills was a pioneer of the jazzy, dance hall hybrid western swing that arose and flourished in the Southwest, then later ...

You might be able to afford a piece of country music history. The historic home that once belonged to Western Swing legend Bob Wills has been put up for auction on eBay after a land developer in ...

While he may not have invented Western swing (Milton Brown, Leon Selph, Ted Daffan, and Bill Boyd deserve some credit), Bob Wills defined the genre. Take fiddle-based old-time string-band music from ...

This is Joaquin's second CD reissue drawn from radio transcriptions made by Wills and his band between ... 21 years - a generation - younger than Bob, and that difference was reflected in the sound of ...

offering audiences the highly danceable musical mixture that came to be known as western swing. Following Bob’s 1975 death, a group of ex-Playboys led by former Wills steel-guitarist Leon ...

One of the most influential figures in country music history, the legendary Bob Wills was a pioneer of the jazzy, dance hall hybrid western swing that arose and flourished in the Southwest, then later ...

"Bob Wills is Still the King," which sums up the sentiment nicely: "I grew up on music that we called Western Swing/It don't matter who's in Austin, Bob Wills is still the king." You can hear ...