San
Antonio Rose : The Life and Music of Bob Wills (Music in American Life)
by Charles R. Townsend
Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref); (November 1986)
Lone
Star Swing : On the Trail of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
by Duncan McLean
Duncan McLean has a dilemma. He's head over heels for a music that's
not only going out of style, but is found most prevalently in Texas--a
long way from his home in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. After exhausting
Scotland's supply of western swing, in 1995 McLean travels to America,
rents a Chevy Cavalier, and heads west to explore the birthplace, meet
the makers, and dig up the roots of the sounds with which he's fallen in
love. As he describes it:
"This is the hottering chili-pot of New Orleans Jazz, old country fiddling,
big-band swing, ragtime, blues, pop, mariachi and conjunto that dominated
Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and beyond--all the way to San Francisco in
the west, Memphis in the east--from the mid-Thirties till mid-Elvis. This
is western swing."
Lone Star Swing is both musical pilgrimage and witty travelogue. As
McLean trails his favorite music over the back roads of Texas, his adventures
make for interesting reading. He has a way of making you feel you're riding
along in the passenger seat as he finds the top 10 things to do in Turkey,
Texas, on Bob Wills Day (Bob is McLean's western-swing hero), learns how
to nibble an onion cooked up sunflower style at the Presidio Onion Festival,
gets lectured for cussing in front of ladies after his Chevy gets its doors
rehung by a hit-and-run driver, and suffers the wrath of Gulf Coast prawns
eaten too far from their home waters. And although he's far away from the
Orkney Islands, McLean has a way of making himself at home in just about
every place the music takes him. Amazon.com
Paperback: 311 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.80 x
8.22 x 5.49
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company; (April 1998)
ISBN: 0393317560
My
Years With Bob Wills
by Al Stricklin
Bob
Wills: His Life--Times--And Music
by H. Ed Hurt
Cowboy
Fiddler in Bob Wills' Band
by Frankie McWhorter, John R. Erickson (Contributor), Lanny Fiel (Introduction)
Publisher: University of North Texas Press; (April 1997)
Bob
Wills : Hubbin It
by Ruth Sheldon, Charles R. Townsend (Introduction), Ruth Sheldon Knowles
Publisher: Country Music Foundation; Reprint edition (August 1995)
Bob
Wills : King of Western Swing
by Ronny S. Schiff (Compiler), Dean McKinney-Moore (Photographer)
Book Description: All Night Long - Bring It on down to My House - Bubbles
in My Beer - Dusty Skies - Faded Love - Fat Boy Rag - Hang Your Head in
Shame - I Can't Go On This Way - I Wonder If You Feel the Way I Do - I'm
Gonna Be Boss - Ida Red - Keeper of My Heart - A Maiden's Prayer - My Confession
- New Texas Playboy Rag - Roly Poly - San Antonio Rose - Smoke On the Water
- Spanish Two Step - Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima - Stay a Little Longer
(The Hoedown Fiddle Song) - Steel Guitar Rag - Sugar Moon - Take Me Back
to Tulsa - Texarkana Baby - Thorn in My Heart - We Might As Well Forget
It - White Cross on Okinawa - You Don't Care What Happens to Me - You're
From Texas.
Paperback: 104 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.33 x 12.00 x 9.08
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation; (January 1, 1997)
ISBN: 0793543215
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