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Cotton Roberts: Fiddler Cotton Roberts passed away on March 8 2007. Memories of Cotton can be found in the 2007 WSMS Newsletter , in print and online (page 15) Evan Kemp: Guitarist Evan Kemp passed away on March 17, 2007.
Needing a new band to fill the void left by Wills' departure, Moore suggested Billy Jack. Bob agreed, and Moore and Billy Jack assembled a band that included trumpeter and bassist Dick McComb, fiddler/bassist Cotton Roberts, rhythm guitarist Kenny Lowery, and steel guitarist Tommy Varner.
Western swing is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands. [1] [2] It is dance music, often with an up-tempo beat, [3] [4] which attracted huge crowds to dance halls and clubs in Texas, Oklahoma and California during the 1930s and 1940s until a federal war-time nightclub tax in 1944 contributed to the ...
Bob Wills Day, an annual Texas event celebrating western swing, celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2022 in Wills’ tiny West Texas hometown of Turkey. Before he became a musical innovator, James Robert Wills picked cotton, joined his father on the fiddle at country dances, and even tried to be a barber.
Billy Jack Wills and His Western Swing Band features all 16 tracks on the first Western album, plus three others. (Joaquin plans to reissue the follow-up album of Wills transcriptions, Crazy, Man Crazy!, in the spring of ’97.)
Bob agreed, and Moore and Billy Jack assembled a band that included trumpeter and bassist Dick McComb, fiddler/bassist Cotton Roberts, rhythm guitarist Kenny Lowery, and steel guitarist Tommy Varner. The group, dubbed Billy Jack Wills & His Western Swing Band, began broadcasting over Sacramento's KCRA radio in 1950, soon moving to the ...
Since 2001, John England and the Western Swingers have performed at Robert’s on (almost) every Monday night. On July 12, the group celebrates its 20th anniversary at the famed honky-tonk.
Western swing band led by Billy Jack Wills & Tiny Moore based out of Bob Wills' Wills Point Ballroom in Sacramento, active from 1949 or 50 to 1954, when the band was folded into Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys. Known for incorporating influences and songs from jump blues, R&B and be-bop music, and regarded as early rockabilly/ rock 'n roll pioneers.
lo in 1953 as leader of the house band at a club Bob owned there.He used many musicians from the Washington/ Idaho area that are in the Western Swing Society Hall of Fame: Cotton Roberts, on Hutchinson, Don Berkshire, Ray Robinson, Ivan Wood and others.