TURKEY, Texas (KCBD) - The 53rd Annual Bob Wills Day Celebration begins April 24 in Turkey, Texas. The events continue through Saturday, April 26. Organizer Carley du Menil joined Kase Wilbanks to ...

Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys original Cain's Ballroom stage sign, Leon McAuliffe's 1955 Fender quad-neck Stringmaster steel guitar and roughly 100 original, hand-painted Cain's Ballroom show ...

Bob Wills was one of the earliest stars of country music in Texas just as radio became popular. Wills was one of the pioneers of western swing and inspired generations of country music artists.

Today, we look at Texas swing legend Bob Wills. The little cries—of ... It's strings, brass and lap steel guitars, jive-talking, yodeling and scatting." I actually love the story of McLean ...

Mick Jagger and the boys did a cover of Waylon Jennings’ “Bob Wills Is Still the King,” which ... Honestly, it’s the cover I never knew I needed… even guitar player Ronnie Wood for played the steel ...

From original folk and jazz songs to “Steel Guitar Rag” on the hammered dulcimer and a magic routine, the Morning Pointe Foundation’s 5th Annual Seniors Got Talent show in Chattanooga offers ...

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 ...

It’s the stuff of Hollywood legends. Angry at his friend over a booking disagreement, Jennings decided to pen a tribute to Bob Wills, “the King of Western Swing.” The “I’ve Always Been ...

Well, there is another possibility: some believe that a member of the Texas Playboys produced the first recorded guitar solo during a session with Bob Wills ... not on a steel resonator or Spanish ...

Steel strings twang with each pull from the metal rings — wearable guitar picks — adorning his right thumb, index and middle finger. His left hand hovers over the strings along the neck ...

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 ...

Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and co-chair of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s inaugural committee lobbied on behalf of US Steel in the year before its acquisition by Japan’s Nippon Steel, according to ...