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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 ...
James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader. Considered by music authorities as the founder of Western swing, [1] [2] [3] he was known widely as the King of Western Swing (although Spade Cooley self-promoted the moniker "King of Western Swing" from 1942 to 1969). He was ...
John England & the Western Swingers is a six piece Nashville, Tennessee band that plays Western swing.The group has performed at Robert's Western World on Broadway, Nashville's famous music strip, every Monday night since July 2001.
Wills left the band in 1933 and formed the Texas Playboys the next year. By this time, Wills was among a group developing the “western swing” sound. In 1940, he released perhaps his most ...
This is a list of swing and Western swing musicians. Swing. Anita O'Day (1919 ... The Quebe Sisters Band (2000–) Riders in the Sky (1977–) Shoot Low Sheriff (2008 ...
Milton Brown (September 8, 1903 – April 18, 1936) was an American band leader and vocalist who co-founded the genre of Western swing.His band was the first to fuse hillbilly hokum, jazz, and pop together into a unique, distinctly American hybrid, thus giving him the nickname, "Father of Western Swing".
The Light Crust Doughboys is an American Western swing band from Texas, United States, [1] organized in 1931 by the Burrus Mill and Elevator Company in Saginaw, Texas. [2] The band achieved its peak popularity in the few years leading up to World War II.
Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers (More from the Golden Age of Western Swing) (Proper BOX 83 [4CD], 2006) Western Swing: 40 Bootstompers From The Golden Age (Primo [Czech Republic] 6008 [2CD], 2006) Swing With The Music (B.A.C.M. [British Archive of Country Music] CD-D-297, 2010) You Oughta See My Fanny Dance (Previously Unissued Western ...