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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 30—Downtown Greenville will soon be filled with the lively, charming sound of Western swing music for the Ninth Annual Bob ...

When Merle Haggard made his 1970 album "A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World," Bob Wills was a forgotten man, getting around in a wheelchair. "Fiddles as an instrument were not even ...

Although he’s best known as a former member of Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys, the 75-year-old Gimble has played and recorded with some of the most important musical figures of the 20th century. According ...

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 ...

THE GREATEST WESTERN SWING MUSICIAN OF ALL TIME, Bob Wills long ago ascended to the hallowed ranks of the Country Music Hall of Fame. But the impact of his style—a showy big-band sound embellished ...

Merle Haggard called him “The Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World” on a tribute album. Waylon Jennings opined that it didn’t matter who roamed the halls of state governmental power in Austin, because ...

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: The Texas Playboys are on the air. BOB WILLS: (Singing) Now, listen everybody from near and far, if you want to know who we are, we're the Texas Playboys from the Lone Star State.