Bob Wills
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I thought this would be a good time to rebrand our shows ... Rather than have the Saturday-night show as we know it, we’ll occasionally have a Hank Williams special, a Johnny Cash special, a ride with Bob Wills, a Cajun show.
He did great great demos but they were doing the pop-country thing at that time and he wasn’t going to do that. George, you know, he didn’t do anything pop. It was all George Jones kind of stuff, Bob Wills kind of stuff. The demos were all straight-ahead countryMore quotes »
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Bob Wills Fresno home endangered
asbestos and lead paint. He said Granville would sell the house for $1 if the buyer moves it at no expense to the builder. Bob Wills bought the one-story wood-frame house at 6410 E. Clinton Ave. and the surrounding 80 acres near Armstrong Avenue in 1945. The 7:10 PM from BatesLine Read more »
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Commission vote on Wills' house may lead to council battle
legacy of country music star Bob Wills in Fresno is almost certainly headed for a City Hall fight. The Fresno Historic Preservation Commission on Monday said Wills' former home east of town should be placed on the local register of historic resources, a step from Fresno Bee Read more »
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San Marcos Tonight 05/13/13
favor). A good way to spend the evening might be to stop by Gruene Hall and swing along with Bret Graham (pictured). His Bob Wills “yip” is as good as any around (maybe better) and he does Bob’s legacy proud. Bret’s “Honky Tonk Disorder” proves our point. from Newstreamz San Marcos Read more »
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Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys tour stops at Cafe Nine in New Haven
pretty much everything he plays has been vintage, even when it was something he just wrote. It may sound like something Bob Wills or Jimmy Martin penned back in 1949 or 1950, but it’s really all Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys. And there’s nothing neo-country from New Haven Register Read more »
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Lyle Lovett at Belk Theater tonight (5/6/2013)
wry, slightly imbalanced observations, Lovett crosses the battered romanticism of Leonard Cohen with the loosey-goosey swing of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys. The result is a relaxed, sophisticated and multi-layered mix of gospel, folk, big band and tin from Charlotte Creative Loafing Read more »
