Riding With Bob

"...The Wills Brothers in the early 1950's (l-r) Luke Wills, Johnnie..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

Texas Radio and the Really Big Beat

Capstar's Austin-based Empire

"...When bureaucrats in Washington changed the laws that govern radio some 70-odd years ago, a goateed doctor from Kansas..."

May 22, 1998 Music Feature by Bill Crawford

Birth of Western Swing, Death of Milton Brown

Chapter excerpt from the new book by ATX music historians Michael Corcoran and Tim Kerr spotlights the debt that the kings of country swing, Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys, owed to Texan Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies

"...but back in the early Thirties, Milton Brown and Bob Wills were thinking the same thing. The singer and..."

March 27, 2020 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

The Man Who Would Be Swing

A new play gives Ray Benson the chance finally to chat with the King, Bob Wills

"...Together, Rapp and Benson have penned a tribute to Bob Wills, the originator of Western swing, whose 100th birthday..."

March 4, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Film News

The martini shot

"...novel, it won the 2008 Eric Hoffer Award. Adair's Bob Wills Love Doesn't Fade..."

July 31, 2009 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Conventional Wisdom

Why There's No Oldies Country Radio

"...has some funny ideas about how to program a radio station. Most C.E.O.s have reams of demographic data around..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

Rob Sheffield's Mix Tape

"...worry about that mule, baby, just hold the line. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, “Oozlin’ Daddy Blues” I..."

Jan. 24, 2008 Music Post by Austin Powell

King of the Swing Fiddle

Honoring country music's second most famous fiddle player, Johnny Gimble

"...at age 13, first appeared with his brothers on radio station KGBK in their hometown of Tyler, Texas. In..."

April 5, 2002 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Reissues

"...this swing disc wisely doesn't dally too long on Bob Wills, since he's been done to death while other..."

July 28, 1995 Music Feature

Texas Towns & Places

"...12 "I'm a Ding Dong Daddy (From Dumas)," Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Songwriter: Phil Baxter Year..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Texas Titles in Toto

"..."Beaumont Bag," Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Music Feature

Learning the Game

Learning Buddy Holly's game, 203 tracks at a time

"...that supernatural night in Zilker Park 2006, Waylon Jennings' "Bob Wills Is Still the King" has its roots in..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Never Mind the Bollocks

Ray Benson decides to cut a solo album

"...As an apostle of Bob Wills and an ambassador of his music, Benson is..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Asleep At The Wheel

"...Ride With Bob (Dreamworks)..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Music Feature

For the Good Times

The Life and Times of Texas country crooner, Ray Price.

"...forty-, fifty-, and sixtysomething fans forgotten by contemporary country radio...."

Sept. 1, 2000 Music Feature by David Cantwell

2005 ACL Music Fest Preview

All 'picks' no 'sleepers' for the Austin City Limits Music Festival, one blurb at a time

"...More than any group, AATW keeps Bob Wills alive and kicking. The Ray Benson-led Austin swing..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Music Feature

The Whole Bow

Alvin Crow fiddled it his way

"...The magic of radio roamed the flat, sweeping plains of the Panhandle, where..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Cult of Ray

Ray Benson steps out from behind the Wheel.

"...well as with the two-stepping old-timers who hadn't heard Bob Wills' music played like that since Bob Wills, the..."

July 18, 2003 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

Texas in the Title

"..."Texas Flyer," Freddie King Songwriters: Freddie King, Roy Davies, Bob Tench, Steve Ferrone, DeLisle Harper, Mike Vernon Year Released:..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Austin Heart of Film Festival Schedule (Revised)

"...81, The Iron Giant), Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused), Bob Odenkirk and David Cross (Mr. Show), Alan Trustman (Bullitt),..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Screens Feature

Austin Heart of Film

Screenwriters Conference and Festival Schedule

"...81, The Iron Giant), Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused), Bob Odenkirk and David Cross (Mr. Show), Alan Trustman (Bullitt),..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Screens Feature

The Town Was Hoppin'

Austin's music scene of the Fifties lives on in Ray Campi

"...and more locals benefited from exposure on Lalo Campos' radio show for KVET. Never-recorded accordion master Ca­mi­lo Cantu, meanwhile,..."

March 30, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Day Trips

All sixty-eight years and 170 members of the "the world's longest-running Western Swing band" are covered at the LIght Crust Doughboys Hall of Fame and Museum in Mesquite, Texas.

"...of the band that started in Fort Worth with Bob Wills playing fiddle on the Burrus Mill radio show...."

Jan. 14, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Remembering Rod Moag, The Pickin' Singin' Professor

Jeff Moag honors his academic, musician, and KOOP radio host father

"...professor emeritus at the University of Texas, longtime community radio host, musician, and recording artist, died Thursday evening, Jan...."

Jan. 28, 2023 Music Post by Jeff Moag

Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

in box

"...Bob Wills & His Texas PlayboysThe Tiffany Transcriptions (Collectors' Choice..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

The Rock Pile

"...The King of Western Swing: Bob Wills Remembered by Rosetta Wills Billboard Books, $21.95 hard..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Recviews

"...is one of obfuscated talent in the name of radio friendliness...."

Jan. 19, 1996 Music Review

Down Every Road with Merle Haggard

“He was a character out of The Grapes of Wrath”

"...could do it with a lot of words, like Bob Dylan with ‘Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands’ or ‘Like..."

April 7, 2016 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Waltz Across Texas

Is the Broken Spoke being edged off South Lamar?

"...wars last century saw developments as staggering as today's: radio, recordings, film. In the Forties, waves of people moved..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Three for the Road

Dream team scions Warren Hood and Emily Gimble add up 58 years of Austin roots

"...straight from the front ranks of Western swing kings Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys...."

July 12, 2013 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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