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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 30—Downtown Greenville will soon be filled with the lively, charming sound of Western swing music for the Ninth Annual Bob ...

THE GREATEST WESTERN SWING MUSICIAN OF ALL TIME, Bob Wills long ago ascended to the hallowed ranks of the Country Music Hall of Fame. But the impact of his style—a showy big-band sound embellished ...

Merle Haggard called him “The Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World” on a tribute album. Waylon Jennings opined that it didn’t matter who roamed the halls of state governmental power in Austin, because ...

Rodd Taylor had crosses on his heart, cowboy boots on his feet and an Oklahoma accent on his lips. In other words, he wasn’t the sort of man to cry easily. However, even Taylor got teary-eyed when he ...

Although he’s best known as a former member of Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys, the 75-year-old Gimble has played and recorded with some of the most important musical figures of the 20th century. According ...

GROESBECK — Cowboy's fiddle, like most fiddles, is ordinary. It is moody, delicate and worn — a scarred spruce and maple body married to a frayed horsehair bow. Often imperfect. Sometimes beautiful.

Welcome to the Texas Canon, a series that dives into the movies, TV shows, books, albums and more that represent us and reach far beyond the Lone Star State's borders. Today, we look at Texas swing ...

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 ...

Of all the towering icons of the great state of Texas, only the Alamo stands taller than Bob Wills. And only by a hair. His 40 years as a bandleader, composer and recording artist established Wills as ...