Bob Wills And His Western Swing Band has been played on NTS shows including Country Hayride, with Looking Over My Shoulder first played on 25 September 2016.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is Joaquin's second CD reissue drawn from radio transcriptions made by Wills ... Bob's Sacramento ballroom when he moved the Texas Playboys to Oklahoma. These successors were no mere clones of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once again, the baton has been passed, and the hands that grasped it are crafting some of the finest examples of Bob Wills-style western swing anyone could ever want to hear. Tickets are still ...

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