Biography

The first and greatest major figure of Western Swing music, Bob Wills (and his band the Texas Playboys) melded country fiddling, big-band swing, Tex-Mex music, polka, and other regional folk traditions into a new and sophisticated genre during the 1930s and 1940s. The style proved highly influential to subsequent generations of country artists. Merle Haggard so loved Wills's music and band that he recorded a tribute album to him and, after Wills retired in the late 1960s, he recruited many of the Texas Playboys for his own band.

Top Tracks

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• 31st Street Blues

• A Big Ball In Cowtown (we'll Dance Around)

• Basin Street Blues

• Beaumont Rag

• Big Beaver

• Black Rider

• Bob Wills Boogie

• Bob Wills Stomp

• Boot Heel Drag

• Brain Cloudy Blues

• Bubbles In My Beer

• Can't Get Enough Of Texas

• Cherokee Maiden

• Corrine Corrina

• Corrine, Corrina

• Darktown Strutters' Ball

• Deep Water

• Don't Let The Deal Go Down

• Faded Love

• Fat Boy Rag

• Four Or Five Times

• G.i. Wish

• Home In San Antone

• I Ain't Got Nobody

• I Wonder If You Feel The Way I Do

• Ida Red

• I'll See You In My Dreams

• I'm Talkin' About You

• La Paloma

• Li'l Liza Jane

• Lone Star Rag

• Maiden's Prayer

• Mexicali Rose

• Miss Molly

• My Confession

• New San Antonio Rose

• New Spanish Two-step

• New Texas Playboy Rag

• Oklahoma Rag

• Osage Stomp

• Playboy Stomp

• Pray For The Lights To Go Out

• Red Hot Gal Of Mine

• Right Or Wrong

• Roly Poly

• Sally Goodin'

• San Antonio Rose

• Seven Miles Out Of Town

• Sittin' On Top Of The World

• Spanish Two Step

• St. Louis Blues

• Stay A Little Longer

• Steel Guitar Rag

• Steel Guitar Stomp

• Sunbonnet Sue

• Take Me Back To Tulsa

• Texarkana Baby

• Texas Playboy Rag

• That's What I Like About The South

• The Devil Ain't Lazy

• The Waltz You Saved For Me

• Time Changes Everything

• Twin Guitar Special

• Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

• Wednesday Night Waltz

Discography

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• For the Last Time

  Capitol Nashville / Capitol

  1974