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. Events to celebrate the "King of Western Swing" and to showcase the Sooner State's film, music, arts and cultural sectors are ...

Western swing was country music's rowdy precursor to rock 'n' roll - Cain's Ballroom is often called "The House that Bob Built." Bob Wills was the king of Western swing, and on Saturday, Tulsa's own ...

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 ...

"This is the Carnegie Hall of Western swing," Ray Benson, lead singer of Asleep At The Wheel, told the crowd gathered for the grand reopening of Dallas' Longhorn Ballroom Thursday night, shortly ...

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 ...

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 ...

But on a sweltering August night — when the Oklahoma heat and humidity gave the air conditioning system of Tulsa’s timeless honky-tonk a battle for the ages — Crockett didn’t get caught up with the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma Historical Society on Wednesday announced that it has received a $20,000 grant to preserve 600 hours of Bob Wills' music recorded in the 1940s. The grant came from the ...

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 ...

1975 - Country & Western star Bob Wills dies of pneumonia at the age of 70. His group Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys have six No. 1 country singles. The most successful is "New Spanish Two Step" in… ...

Bob Wills Day will be celebrated at the Oklahoma state Capitol on March 9 with live Western swing music. The annual event honors the "King of Western Swing" and will feature a Western fashion contest.