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As Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, they became one of the most popular touring and recording acts in the nation, offering audiences the highly danceable musical mixture that came to be known as western swing.
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Early years
He was born on a cotton farm in Kosse, Texas, to Emma Lee Foley and John Tompkins Wills. His parents were both of primarily English ancestry but had distant Irish ancestry as well. The entire Wills family was musically inclined. His father was a statewide champion fiddle player, and several of his siblings played musical instruments. The family frequently held country dances in their home, and while living in Hall County, Texas, they also played at "ranch dances", which were popular throughou...
New Mexico and Texas
The family moved to Hall County in the Texas Panhandle in 1913, and in 1919 they bought a farm between the towns of Lakeview, Texas, and Turkey, Texas.At the age of 16, Wills left the family and hopped a freight train, travelling under the name Jim Rob. He drifted from town to town trying to earn a living for several years, once nearly falling from a moving train. In his 20s, he attended barber school, married his first wife Edna, and moved first to Roy, New Mexico, then returned to Turkey in...
The Texas Playboys
After forming a new band, The Playboys, and relocating to Waco, Texas, Wills found enough popularity there to decide on a bigger market. They left Waco in January 1934 for Oklahoma City. Wills soon settled the renamed Texas Playboys in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and began broadcasting noon shows over the 50,000-watt KVOO radio station, from the stage of Cain's Ballroom. They also played dances in the evenings.[citation needed] Wills largely sang blues and sentimental ballads. "One Star Rag", "Rat Chees...
Bob Wills was married six times and divorced five times. He was twice married to, and twice divorced from, Mary Helen Brown, the widow of Wills' ex-band member Milton Brown. 1. Edna Posey, married 1926, divorced 1935 (one daughter, Robbie Joe Wills) 2. Ruth McMaster, married 1936, divorced 1936 3. Mary Helen Brown, married 1938, divorced 1938, rema...
Wills' style influenced performers Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and The Strangers and helped to spawn a style of music now known as the Bakersfield Sound.[citation needed] (Bakersfield, California, was one of Wills' regular stops in his heyday). A 1970 tribute album by Haggard, A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (or, My Salute to B...
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Inspiriert von den Söhnen Texas, Stevie Ray Vaughan und Johnny Winter haben sie die Band Texas Playboys gegründet um diese Musik auf der Bühne weiter leben zu lassen. Authentisch, Groovig, Bluesig thats it.
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Bob Wills und die Texas Playboys begannen nach neuen musikalischen Ausdrucksformen zu suchen. In diesen Jahren entstand in den Südstaaten der USA eine neue Variante des Jazz , der Swing . Die Eigentümer der großen Tanzhallen forderten auch von den Country-Bands eine tanzbare, hallenfüllende Musik.
Bob Wills often dressed in double-breasted suits and custom-made boots. His Texas Playboys wore western suits or trousers, white shirts and neckties. On their way to becoming America’s famous Western Swing band, the image of ‘western chic’ had dawned. » read the article.
