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While most of America was dancing to Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller and other swing bands of the '30s, the people of Texas and Oklahoma were dancing to Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, who took the jazz-inflected swing into Western territory as Western Swing. After listening to recordings of the band from the '30s and '40s, it is easy to see why it became so popular. James Robert Wills was born in 1905 in Texas, the first of the Wills clan that by the end of the '20s was to include ten kids. His father, affectionately known as Uncle John, was a popular fiddler who taught Bob to play the mandolin and then the fiddle. Continued... |
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