The song also carried a playful jab at friend Willie Nelson during the height of the outlaw-country era. In his memoir It's a Long Story: My Life, Nelson recalled Jennings performing the song with "a ...

Bob Wills was one of the earliest stars of country music in Texas just as radio became popular. Wills was one of the pioneers of western swing and inspired generations of country music artists. James ...

If you hear ghostly shouts of Bob Wills’ signature cry “Ah haaaa!” this weekend, don’t be surprised. The fifth annual Cowtown Birthplace of Western Swing Festival will call downbeat at noon Nov. 6, ...

Legendary fiddler Johnny Gimble would have celebrated his 100th birthday today, May 30. Gimble died in May 2015 at age 88.

When Bob Wills died on May 13, 1975, country music lost one of its foundational architects. But thanks in large part to Waylon Jennings, the "King of Western Swing" never really disappeared from the ...