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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 ...
This is a list of swing and Western swing musicians. Swing ... Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (1905–1975 ... The Quebe Sisters Band (2000–) Riders in ...
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).
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.
Asleep at the Wheel is an American Western swing music group that was formed in Paw Paw, West Virginia, in 1970, [4] and is based in Austin, Texas.The band has won nine Grammy Awards, released over 20 albums, and has charted more than 21 singles on the Billboard country charts.
The Quebe Sisters Band (4854598924) The Quebe Sisters are an American swing revival band based in Dallas, Texas, who perform a mix of progressive western swing, jazz-influenced swing, country, Texas-style fiddling, and western music. The band consists of sisters Grace, Sophia, and Hulda Quebe, all of whom play the fiddle and sing, with ...
The band's name comes from two sources: "Hot Club" from the hot jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli's Quintette du Hot Club de France, and "Cowtown" from the western influence of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys and other early Western swing combos, as well as the band's love of fiddle tunes, hoedowns, and songs of the American west.
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".