Bob Wills
Bob Wills was born in Limestone County, Texas, United States on March 6th, 1905 and is the Guitarist. At the age of 70, Bob Wills biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader.
He was regarded by music historians as the co-founder of Western Swing (although Spade Cooley self-promoted the moniker "King of Western Swing" from 1942 to 1969). Wills played in several bands and appeared on radio stations around the South and West until he founded the Texas Playboys in 1934, with Wills on fiddle, Tommy Duncan on piano and vocals, drummer Johnnie Lee Wills, and Kermit Whalin, who played steel guitar and bass.
Leon McAuliffe on steel guitar, pianist Al Stricklin, drummer Smokey Dacus, and a horn section that extended the band's sound were all on Tulsa, Oklahoma radio station KVOO.
Wills favored jazz-like arrangements and the band gained national recognition in the 1940s with hits including "Steel Guitar Rag," "Smoke On The Water," "Stars And Stripes On Iwo Jima," and "New Spanish Two Step." Wills and the Texas Playboys have worked with several publishers and companies, including Vocalion, Okeh, Columbia, and MGM, who are often in demand.
"Ida Red Likes the Boogie" and "Faded Love," two of his last hits for a decade, were among his top ten hits, in 1950.
He suffered with poor health and vulnerable finances in the 1950s, but he continued to perform frequently as rock and roll took over.
Wills had a heart attack in 1962 and a second one the following year, which caused him to disband the Playboys, but Wills continued to perform solo. In 1968, the Country Music Hall of Fame inducted Wills for his service to American music, and the Texas State Legislature praised him for his contributions to American music.
He was recording an album with supporter Merle Haggard in 1973 when a stroke left him comatose until his death in 1975.
Wills and the Texas Playboys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999.
Personal life
Bob Wills was married six times and divorced five times. He was twice married to and divorced from Mary Helen Brown, Wills' ex-band member Milton Brown's widow.
