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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 ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Western swing musical groups" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. ... Riders in the Sky (band) S. Shoot Low Sheriff; T.
Pappy O'Daniel. In 1931, Burrus Mill's president, W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel, wanted to link radio and advertising to promote the company's Light Crust Flour. [9] O'Daniel, who would later travel with the band and use its popularity as a springboard for his political ambitions, said the idea to start the band and link radio to advertising was pitched to him originally by Bob Wills, Herman ...
The Time Jumpers is a Western swing band formed in 1998 by a group of Nashville studio musicians who enjoyed jamming together. [1] Country star Vince Gill was a member of the group between 2010 and 2020. [ 2 ]
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 ...
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.