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Tiny Moore Live! Download - Acoustic Disc

Tiny Moore Live! Download - Acoustic Disc A live recording of a 1980 performance by mandolinist Tiny Moore, who played with Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, Billy Jack Wills and His Western Swing Band, and Merle Haggard and the...

Posted by Michael Bates on February 13, 2024 12:06 AM

Enid 2005 Architecture tour sites | Business | enidnews.com

Enid: 2005 architecture tour sites | enidnews.com Bookmarked for the next time I'm in Enid: A list of historic buildings in the capital city of Oklahoma's wheat belt for an architectural tour that was held on August 14, 2005, sponsored...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 3, 2022 9:18 PM

Benny Strickler in Tulsa with Bob Wills

Benny Strickler in Tulsa with Bob Wills "The BENNY STRICKLER Story: Bob Wills & Tulsa, 1941-42" by Dave Radlauer, published in the Winter 2013 edition of the Frisco Cricket, the newsletter of the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation. "Strickler was...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 17, 2021 10:22 AM

Burrus Mill & Elevator Co. v. Wills, 85 S.W.2d 851 (1935) | Caselaw Access Project

Burrus Mill & Elevator Co. v. Wills, 85 S.W.2d 851 (1935) | Caselaw Access Project Burrus Mill and Elevator Company, which produced the Light Crust Doughboys radio show to advertise the mill's Light Crust Flour, asked a court to enjoin...

Posted by Michael Bates on August 12, 2021 12:12 AM

Bob's Playboy Pickers | Vintage Guitar® magazine

Bob's Playboy Pickers | Vintage Guitar® magazine Western Swing historian Rich Kienzle salutes the steel guitar and standard guitar players who defined the Texas Playboys sound: Leon McAuliffe, Eldon Shamblin, Jimmy Wyble, Noel Boggs, Junior Barnard, Herb Remington, Bobby Koefer,...

Posted by Michael Bates on May 6, 2021 2:48 AM

Leon Rausch Boogie - Fort Worth Weekly

Leon Rausch Boogie - Fort Worth Weekly An article in honor of Leon Rausch's 90th birthday party last fall, in which Leon recounts the course of his career: With Johnnie Lee Wills's band in Tulsa, then Bob Wills and His...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 5, 2018 11:47 PM

The Capital Of Western Swing - Oklahoma Magazine

The Capital Of Western Swing - Oklahoma Magazine John Wooley tells the story of how Tulsa became the capital of western swing, as told to him by O. W. Mayo, business manager for Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys and...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 4, 2015 4:58 PM

Buddy McPeters on Bob Wills' Tiffany Transcriptions

Buddy McPeters on Bob Wills' Tiffany Transcriptions Western swing historian Buddy McPeters often posts detailed historical essays on the TexasPlayboys.net website. Here's a great recent example: McPeters describes the context of the idea to record Bob Wills and His Texas...

Posted by Michael Bates on June 5, 2014 6:30 PM

Language Log » Singular y'all: a "devious Yankee rumor"?

Language Log » Singular y'all: a "devious Yankee rumor"? An exchange between Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan at the beginning of "Oozlin' Daddy Blues" is evidence in a discussion about the use of "y'all" to refer to a single person....

Posted by Michael Bates on January 4, 2010 4:47 PM

Lone Star Stories - Can't Buy Me Faded Love by Josh Rountree

Lone Star Stories - Can't Buy Me Faded Love by Josh Rountree Alt-history brings together Bob Wills and John Lennon. Now available in book form....

Posted by Michael Bates on July 17, 2009 5:59 PM

<em>Men My Mother Dated (and Other Mostly True Tales)</em> by Brett Leveridge: Bob Wills

Men My Mother Dated (and Other Mostly True Tales) by Brett Leveridge: Bob Wills Funny, plausible anecdote: "It wasn't long before Dad felt a tap-tap-tap upon his shoulder, signifying that someone was seeking to cut in, to take a turn...

Posted by Michael Bates on June 17, 2009 5:54 PM

Village Voice: New York Music - The Playboy Mansion

Village Voice: New York Music - The Playboy Mansion "Western-swing hype man-icon invents, uh, everything." From Anthony Mariani's review of the 2006 box set: "A four-disc box set of 105 remastered tracks, Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills and His...

Posted by Michael Bates on June 15, 2009 6:01 PM

Proper Box Set: Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: Take Me Back to Tulsa

Proper Box Set: Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: Take Me Back to Tulsa Discography for Proper's excellent 4 disc set, covering the years 1934-1950....

Posted by Michael Bates on August 9, 2008 2:46 PM

Bob Wills Discography -- Joe Sixpack's Guide To Hick Music

Bob Wills Discography -- Joe Sixpack's Guide To Hick Music Handy (but incomplete) summary of compilations, transcriptions, and reissues by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, plus albums by the other Wills brothers and Tommy Duncan....

Posted by Michael Bates on August 9, 2008 2:43 PM

tomhull.com: Old-Time Country / Cowboy / Western Swing

tomhull.com: Old-Time Country / Cowboy / Western Swing A summary of grades assigned to albums, but without the bullet reviews. Interesting collection includes a lot of western swing and other forms of hot hillbilly music. And here's a broader list...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 31, 2008 7:46 PM

tomhull.com: January 2002 Notebook

tomhull.com: January 2002 Notebook The top entry on this page has two-sentence reviews of about 50 albums, including most of Bob Wills's Tiffany Transcriptions, For the Last Time, and the Longhorn Recordings; the two Billy Jack Wills compilations; Tommy Duncan's...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 31, 2008 7:31 PM