As Texans head into the weekend, many are still listening to music rooted in Central Texas and a musician who helped define a genre. Bob Wills, known as the “King of Western Swing,” was born in 1905 ...

Greenville is poised and ready to greet November with the lively, charming sound of fiddle-driven Western swing music at its ...

AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) – From spoons to fiddles, field songs to swing halls, it’s not uncommon to find entire eras of the High Plains memorialized through music, with epitaphs of tablature ...

On this day in 1905, Bob Wills was born in Kosse, Texas. Over the years, he was a member of two influential bands. First came the Light Crust Doughboys. After that band dissolved, he formed his Texas ...

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. James ...

(Conqueroo) Bob Wills has always been a core inspiration for the Hot Club of Cowtown's sound, but it has taken the Texas-based trio a dozen years to fully honor the King of Western swing. A fortuitous ...

Former Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills is 76. Singer-songwriter Don McLean is 63. Photographer Annie Leibovitz is 59. Singer-actor Sting is 57. Actress Lorraine Bracco is 54. Rhythm-and-blues singer ...