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 ...

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 ...

Jun. 27—The legacy of the "King of Western Swing" will return to downtown Greenville this fall during the eighth annual Bob Wills Fiddle Festival and Contest. The dates for this year's festival have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Asleep at the Wheel, Dale Watson, The Time Jumpers featuring Vince Gill are the headliners for Greenville's 3rd annual celebration of Bob Wills, bandleader of the legendary Texas Playboys and the King ...

The King of Western Swing, Bob Wills, once told a young Mel Tillis to hire himself a fiddle player. "Do it and you won't ever have to worry about a job," Tillis recalled about the legendary band ...

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 ...

Rodd Taylor had crosses on his heart, cowboy boots on his feet and an Oklahoma accent on his lips. In other words, he wasn’t the sort of man to cry easily. However, even Taylor got teary-eyed when he ...