Oct. 18—Greenville is poised and ready to greet November with the lively, charming sound of fiddle-driven Western swing music at its 10th annual Bob Wills Fiddle Festival and Contest. Combining ...

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 ...

While still about two months away, plans for Greenville’s 11th annual Bob Wills Fiddle Festival & Contest are hurriedly underway. On Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, downtown Greenville is expected to be filled ...

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 ...

GROESBECK — Cowboy's fiddle, like most fiddles, is ordinary. It is moody, delicate and worn — a scarred spruce and maple body married to a frayed horsehair bow. Often imperfect. Sometimes beautiful.

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 ...

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 ...

Louise Rowe can still swing with the best of ’em, Western style. “I just kind of dance with it while I’m playing,” said Rowe, 82, who struts a stand-up bass with her band, the Texan Playboys. Six ...

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: The Texas Playboys are on the air. BOB WILLS: (Singing) Now, listen everybody from near and far, if you want to know who we are, we're the Texas Playboys from the Lone Star State.

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 ...