Western Swing: April 2008 Archives

Play Boy Flour shop: T-SHIRTS, POSTERS, MUGS

Not the magazine, but the brand of flour advertised exclusively on Bob Wills's daily broadcast on KVOO.

leeswing88.se: Bobby Koefer, The Legend

A tribute to the unorthodox steel guitar player, still swinging with the Texas Playboys, but a contributor to many other bands listed here. Most of the article is in Swedish, but a sentence like, "Billy Parker lämnade Ernest Tubbs Texas Troubadours och började på radiostationen KVOO, en station många förknippar med Bob Wills," is self-explanatory.

texasplayboys.net: Bob Wills Estate Contact Info

According to Cindy Wills, as of Feb. 2004: "The mailing address for the Bob Wills Estate is P.O. Box 448, Alvarado, Texas, 79106. Jeff Storie, the estate's lawyer, can be reached at 817-336-2400." In the following entry, Jeffrey W. Storie writes, "I am the manager of the Bob Wills Estate. You can reach me at following: Jeffrey W. Storie Intellectual Property Practice Group Decker Jones McMackin McClane Hall & Bates, P.C. Burnett Plaza 801 Cherry Street, Suite 2000 Unit 46 Fort Worth, Texas 76102 817-336-2400 ext 258 (0ffice) 817-336-2181 (Fax) mailto:jstorie@deckerjones.com"

Western Swing on 78: Port Arthur Jubileers / Jimmy Hart & His Merrymakers

Several years before his debut with Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, mandolinist, fiddler, and vocalist Tiny Moore performed with and then led a Port Arthur, Texas, band called The Jubileers (among other things). Digitized from Decca and Bluebird 78 RPM singles, here are nine of the sixteen sides they recorded, including six with Moore on mandolin, four with Moore as writer, and two with Moore as a vocalist.