Legendary western swing band leader Bob Wills rose up in the Great Depression to fame in Oklahoma and Texas that soon swept the entire nation The documentary FIDDLIN MAN offers a full biography of ...
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — By the time 1966 came around, the Broken Spoke was just another Texas dance hall, struggling to find its way. James White had an idea to put the honky tonk on the map. It would take a ...
Few figures in country music's history have left as distinctive and lasting an impression as Bob Wills (1905-75). An expert fiddler and a magnetic showman, Wills popularized a style of Southwestern ...
Ray Benson never had a conversation with Bob Wills, so he invented one. That's not to say Benson, leader of the eclectic Western-swing preservationist Asleep at the Wheel for 37 years, was unfamiliar ...