As the second great steel ... "Pan Handle Rag." So in early 1949, Remington sat with his steel guitar and began work on "Boot Heel Drag." The song proved a masterful showcase for Wills' band ...

The king of western swing was Bob Wills, and his band was the Texas ... McAuliffe's original compositions included "Steel Guitar Rag," "Panhandle Rag," and he was co-author of "San Antonio Rose." ...

For almost eight years, I’ve wanted to write about Jerry Byrd’s Steel Guitar Favorites ... Texas Play Boy Rag lives up to its name and conjures up Bob Wills’ San Antonio Rose (to which ...

Bob Wills had an early version of the steel guitar in his Texas Playboys. The song “Steel Guitar Rag” was one of the group’s hits. When Bob Wills sings “Take Me Back to Tulsa,” the steel ...

By the time the Brownies entered a recording studio in April 1934, they’d added a piano, and soon there was also a second fiddle and Bob Dunn’s maniacal steel guitar. Wills was watching.

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 with steel guitar and his own fiddle—echoed ...

Various artists, Legends of the Incredible Lap Steel Guitar (Horse Rock Records): Anyone ... a sideman for Texas Playboys founder Bob Wills. There’s also a tango, “Ka Loke de la Corazon ...

It seems wholly unnecessary to note that Bob Wills ... electric guitar, lap steel, even electric mandolin-- you just didn't do that and expect to play the Opry. And yet, Wills got a standing ...