The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
A sevenstrong blues/western swing band from Essex has been forced to change its name after a showdown with one of the world's leading financial institutions.
Kendra Steiner Editions (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Here’s a rarity for you, one which I just found a copy of in my garage. This is the original, pre-KSE edition (12 copies printed, 10 of which were inscribed and given to friends and fellow poets—I kept 2) of FOUR TEXAS STREAMS, which later became the FIRST Kendra Steiner Editions chapbook in March 2006 [...]
Damn Fine Day (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Back in the mid-1940s, Bob Wills, the King of Western Swing, and his incomparable band of city slickers, the Texas Playboys, stood at their creative apex, and were searching for new worlds to conquer. Packing their unprecedented musical gumbo of country, pop, blues, jazz, mariachi and Dixieland into their saddle bags, they rode into Oakland, [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
San Diego, CA - Saxophonist and composer Tom Braxton's song "That Wayman Smile" from his current release Endless Highway was chosen to honor the late Wayman Tisdale during the Annual Induction Banquet Gala for the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame. The event was held on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 also paying tribute to Bob Wills, Steve Pryor, Dr. Stephen Wiley, Olivia Duhon and John C. Wooley...
Upper Left (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
...randomly, of course. Robert Parker - Barefootin' Sam & Dave - I Thank You The Dimensions - She's Boss George Hamilton IV - Abilene Commander Cody - Hot Rod Lincoln Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Stay A Little Longer The Manhattan Transfer - Tuxedo Junction Roger Miller - Kansas City Star Ron Sunshine - Coffee & Reefer Don & The Goodtimes - Louie Louie
BatesLine (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
I was googling for a restaurant sign in an old photo of Bob Wills' tour bus, the restaurant turned out to be the Old Tascosa in Amarillo's Herring Hotel. The Herring Hotel, like Tulsa's Mayo and Oklahoma City's Skirvin, is still standing but has been closed for over 30 years,...
George Strait News (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Fun, fellowship at heart of Clyde festivalReporterNews.comPatsy Cline, George Strait, Bob Wills and Little Jimmy Dickens were not at the field, but their music filled the air. Four bands played, and tear-jerking …
The Westerner (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Song of The Day #150! That calls for a double dose. Let's stay with the western swing genre. Anyone who has followed Tommy Duncan's career knows he was a big fan of Jimmie Rodgers. Here he is with Bob Wills and their 1934 recording of Rodger's Mean Mama Blues . We'll follow that up with a good Ocie Stockard fiddle tune Crafton Blues , recorded in 1937 by Jimmie Revard & His Oklahoma Playboys Both...
Celebrity VIP Lounge (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
Actress-talk-show host Kelly Ripa (”All My Children,” “Live With Regis and Kelly”) is 39. Singer-guitarist Leon Rausch of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys is 82. Critic Rex Reed is 71. Singer Don McLean is 64. Country singer Jo-el Sonnier is 63. Actor Avery Brooks (”Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”) is 61. Guitarist Mike Rutherford of [...]
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
It will begin this evening with a group ride from downtown Dallas to a movie at the Texas Theater in Oak Cliff. It will end Oct. 11 with a street bazaar in the Bishop Arts District and another Texas Theater film. G.J. McCARTHY/DMN Adamson High School automotive technology students have turned their focus to fixing up bikes for the Cyclesomatic festival. Working on refinishing a bike are (from left)...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
Loyd Jones, a well-known Western swing bandleader and musician who played with industry icons before leading his own band for half a century, has died at age 83. Mr. Jones died in his sleep Sept. 24 at his Rio Linda home, longtime friend Charles Hull said. He had Alzheimer's disease but had received a clean bill of health at a physical the day before he died, Hull said. Mr. Jones was an enduring link...
Woody Haut's Blog (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
Heartbreak & Vine Music Festival Day 8 Tennessee Ernie Ford with Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant. My dad had a radio program every Sunday on KXLA in Pasadena, just after Tennesse Ernie's program. I used to go to the station with him and Tennessee Ernie would spend a minute or two joking with me. I couldn't have been more than four or five at the time. We always got there to catch the last couple numbers...
Jake Today (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
Have you tried Pandora yet? Go to www.pandora.com and build a whole bunch of radio stations for the music you like to hear. What are my stations on Pandora? I date myself, but here goes-- Vera Lynn BeauSoliel Bob Wills Chad Mitchell Trio Chiffons Country Gentlemen Don Ho Edith Piaf Hoagy Carmicheal Ian & Sylvia Jerry Jeff Walker Jerry Lee Lewis Kate Smith Sophie Tucker Maria Muldaur Victoria Vox...
"I Saw the Right" (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
"I'm using my awesome psychic powers to peer DEEPinside your heart and I see......RACISM!" ALWAYS THOUGHT THIS GUYS MUSIC SUCKED.... ....but I figured that was just my opinion, different bites for different likes, you know, and that was that. I like Texas Country. Kevin Fowler rocks my world. Dave Matthews doesn't move me. Now it turns out that Matthews himself is a friggin' idiot. From the...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
The Hot Club prove again that the western swing pioneered by Bob Wills was a vitally modern music that has yet to exhaust its sophisticated vocabulary. While the Hot Club of Cowtown have been a regular live presence around the globe in recent years, appearing at the Glastonbury Festival among other places, the group have not released a studio album since 2002's Ghost Train. Wishful Thinking finds them...
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