Bob Wills was born in Texas, grew up in the cotton fields and ranch lands of the Lone Star State and fronted the band now famously known as the Texas Playboys. But the "King of Western Swing" likely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But even as Wills faded from public life, Jennings was making sure his name stayed alive. In 1975, the same year Wills died, ...

1 Alaska Thunderf*ck and J. Harrison Ghee Will Lead OH, MARY! National Tour "Faded Love," "I Ain't Got Nobody," "St. Louis Blues," "A Maiden's Prayer," "I'm Tired Of Living This Lie," "Mexicali Rose," ...

Music has always been a way not only for humans to connect with their own homes and histories, but to share them with others and collaborate to spread new sounds across the world. This is vibrantly ...

On this day in 1905, Bob Wills was born in Kosse, Texas. Over the years, he was a member of two influential bands. First came the Light Crust Doughboys. After that band dissolved, he formed his Texas ...

What goes around comes around: one of the most critically acclaimed albums of recent years was The Pine Valley Cosmonauts Salute the Majesty of Bob Wills, featuring a bunch of postmodern pickers from ...

It is Bob Wills Day at the Oklahoma State Capitol. The “King of Western Swing” passed away nearly 50 years ago, but bands today keep his sound alive. Over the weekend the Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys led ...

When Merle Haggard made his 1970 album "A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World," Bob Wills was a forgotten man, getting around in a wheelchair. "Fiddles as an instrument were not even ...

The one time home of country music star Bob Wills is located in East Fresno, near Clinton and Armstron. The abandoned house has to be moved to make way for a new subdivision. Bob Wills started out as ...

When Bob Wills died on May 13, 1975, country music lost one of its foundational architects. But thanks in large part to Waylon Jennings, the "King of Western Swing" never really disappeared from the ...