Scalped a ticket, Made a sign, Willie saw it and asked me to come up on stage.. it was a life changing night to say the least and a dream come true!. + Informações

Sittin on Top of the World from House of Wills album with songs by Willie Nelson Read more about it here and pre-purchase the CD: budurl.com We need your help paying tribute to a living legend of American music?Willie Nelson?by supporting a CD/DVD that re-imagines his songs in the style of Western Swing icon Bob Wills. Imagine the most sublime Nelson music given a new setting of sophisticated yet grounded western swing stylings, a bit of mariachi, a touch of Chet Baker played by a family of season acoustic musicians - violin, cello, trumpet, upright bass, classical and steel string guitars, mandolin, female and male vocals and harmonies. The recordings are done, but we need your help spreading the word about our fundraising campaign to bring this very special project to CD, DVD, and stages. Here are 4 simple ways you can help make it happen! 1. Copy and paste this into your Facebook or Twitter status message: Help Strings Attached bring "House of Wills" (Willie Nelson's songs in the style of Bob Wills) to CD/DVD/stages/morebudurl.com eofwills [On Facebook, tag me by typing @will taylor and/or @Strings Attached (if you are a fan) then select us from the resulting dropdown. On Twitter, tag @WilliamBTaylor] 2. Post a video to your Facebook/Twitter/YouTube accounts with the above message: Video link:youtube.com son 3. Forward this email or compose one of your own using my email as a template. 4. Make a donation or pre-purchase the album to help make our vision a reality .... + Informações

Waylon Jennings - Bob Wills is Still the King. + Informações

Waylon Jennings was a country singer best known among the general public as the voice of The Dukes of Hazzard. Throughout his career, Waylon released over 50 solo studio albums and forged a fruitful collaborations with his peers, including a recording project with Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash as The Highwaymen. Read More..rjbocm.com. + Informações

The first single from the album "Willie and The Wheel" by Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel. Bismeaux Records 2009. Purchase the song here: www.doublestereo.com. + Informações

Read more about it here and pre-purchase the CD: budurl.com We need your help paying tribute to a living legend of American music?Willie Nelson?by supporting a CD/DVD that re-imagines his songs in the style of Western Swing icon Bob Wills. Imagine the most sublime Nelson music given a new setting of sophisticated yet grounded western swing stylings, a bit of mariachi, a touch of Chet Baker played by a family of season acoustic musicians - violin, cello, trumpet, upright bass, classical and steel string guitars, mandolin, female and male vocals and harmonies. The recordings are done, but we need your help spreading the word about our fundraising campaign to bring this very special project to CD, DVD, and stages. Here are 4 simple ways you can help make it happen! 1. Copy and paste this into your Facebook or Twitter status message: Help Strings Attached bring "House of Wills" (Willie Nelson's songs in the style of Bob Wills) to CD/DVD/stages/morebudurl.com [On Facebook, tag me by typing @will taylor and/or @Strings Attached (if you are a fan) then select us from the resulting dropdown. On Twitter, tag @WilliamBTaylor] 2. Post a video to your Facebook/Twitter/YouTube accounts with the above message: Video link:youtube.com 3. Forward this email or compose one of your own using my email as a template. 4. Make a donation or pre-purchase the album to help make our vision a reality:budurl.com You will find audio and video samples on the project page: budurl.com well as artist .... + Informações

Bob Wills was born in Kosse, Texas in 1905. In 1929 he started the Wills Fiddle Boys in Ft. Worth, then came to the attention of perennial Texas Gubernatorial candidate Pappy Lee O'Daniel who ran the Light Crust Flour Mills in Saginaw, Texas just north of Ft. Worth. Wills lept to fame playing as the Light Crust Doughboys but after several years the band tired of the gig as they were also expected to load flour trucks during the day. In '34 the band moved to Tulsa to get away from Pappy Lee and formed the Texas Playboys. They invented western music with a jazz beat known as Western Swing. Some of his music was dead-on jazz while other songs were straight western-his genre was hard to pin down. On clear channel 50000 watt KVOO in Tulsa The Playboys broadcast from Cain's Ballroom on North Mainand they played it all. In 1968 Wills was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame as the King of Western Swing- and as Willie Nelson crooned-he's still the King. Wills died in Tulsa in 1975. Leon McAuliffe, his steel guitar player featured on this record, was born in Houston, Texas in 1917. He played with Bob Wills band until WWII and after the war formed his own group in Tulsa.. + Informações

Live at Momo's Club in Austin, TX 10-04-09 Written by: HS Thompson/Billy Jack Wills Emily Gimble- vocals/piano Warren Hood- fiddle Jonathan Doyle- saxophone Willie Pipkin- electric guitar Andrew Nafziger- electric guitar Nate Rowe- standup bass Chris Gilson- drums Filmed by:.... + Informações

PART 2-- "Hesitation Blues" & "Right or Wrong" Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel live at Waterloo Records Austin, TX 2/26/09. Click here to see most of this show in high quality: www.youtube.com. + Informações

House of Wills - A Western Swing and Jazz Tribute Project to the songs of Willie Nelson www.budurl.com We need your help paying tribute to a living legend of American music?Willie Nelson?by supporting a CD/DVD that re-imagines his songs in the style of Western Swing icon Bob Wills. Imagine the most sublime Nelson music given a new setting of sophisticated yet grounded western swing stylings, a bit of mariachi, a touch of Chet Baker played by a family of season acoustic musicians - violin, cello, trumpet, upright bass, classical and steel string guitars, mandolin, female and male vocals and harmonies. The recordings are done, but we need your help spreading the word about our fundraising campaign to bring this very special project to CD, DVD, and stages. Here are 4 simple ways you can make it happen! 1. Copy and paste this into your Facebook or Twitter status message: Help Strings Attached bring "House of Wills" (Willie Nelson's songs in the style of Bob Wills) to CD/DVD/stages/more budurl.com [On Facebook, tag me by typing @will taylor and/or @Strings Attached (if you are a fan) then select us from the resulting dropdown. On Twitter, tag @WilliamBTaylor] 2. Post a video to your Facebook/Twitter/YouTube accounts with the above message: Video link: www.youtube.com 3. Forward this email or compose one of your own using my email as a template. 4. Make a donation to our Kickstarter project page to help make our vision a reality: budurl.com You will find audio and video samples .... + Informações

I have had several requests lately to post some more Music by Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, and I am more than happy to oblige...Enjoy!!! Bob Wills was the driving force behind Western Swing, a form of Country & Western that fuses Jazz, Hillbilly, Blues, Big Band Swing, and many more rhythm forms together creating a truly Unique, Diverse and Unforgettable sound. Wills' shrewd mix of horns, fiddles and steel guitar made for a swinging sound that grabbed the public's ear during the mid 1930s and 1940s. Bob Wills was born into a family of fiddlers on March 6, 1905. His father, John Wills regularly won Texas fiddling competitions. Bob learned how to play fiddle and mandolin from his father. As a young man, Wills performed at house dances, medicine shows and in 1929 made his debut on the radio. With commercial sponsorship, Wills' bands performed on radio in the early 1930s as "Aladdin's Laddies" (for the Aladdin Lamp Co.) and "The Light Crust Doughboys" (for Light Crust Flour). Following a salary dispute, Wills renamed his band the Texas Playboys and relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he had a live radio show. This exposure led to a contract with the American Recording Corporation - later absorbed into Columbia Records. In September 1935, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys recorded their first songs in a makeshift recording studio in an old Dallas Warehouse. From that point on, The Texas Playboys became an overnight sensation and recorded prolifically and made such classics .... + Informações

Wade performs in Nashville with Aaron Till, 2008.. + Informações

I had just woken up, I still have a few cobwebs in my throat, but here it is. "San Antonio Rose"/"New San Antonio Rose" was the signature song of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. "San Antonio Rose" was an instrumental song written by Bob Wills, who first recorded it with the Playboys in 1938. Band members added lyrics and it was retitled "New San Antonio Rose" Lyrics: Deep within my heart lies a melody, A song of old San Antone. Where in dreams I live with a memory, Beneath the stars, all alone. Well it was there I found, beside the Alamo, Enchantments strange as the blue up above. For that moonlit pass, that only he would know, Still hears my broken song of love. Moon in all your splendor, known only to my heart, Call back my rose, rose of San Antone. Lips so sweet and tender, like petals falling apart, Speak once again of my love, my own. Broken song, empty words I know, Still live in my heart all alone. For that moonlit pass by the Alamo, And rose, my rose of San Antone. Broken song, empty words I know, Still live in my heart all alone. For that moonlit pass by the Alamo. And rose, my rose of San Antone. Popular Cover Versions: Bing Crosby, Dick Curless, Patsy Cline, Ray Price, Clint Eastwood, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Jim Nabors, John Denver, Elvis Presley, Billy Vaughn, Carson and Gaile, Gustav Winckler, The Quebe Sisters Band, Dwight Yoakam. + Informações

NOTE: Lyrics and some history about this song is listed below.Darrell & Mona McCall, their daughter Guyanne and their record label, Heart of Texas Records (Tracy Pitcox) gave me permission to make any and all Darrell McCall videos Darrell McCall and his wife Mona McCall are the most under-rated country singers out there. They are REAL country!! I will be making many more Darrell McCall music videos. Keep an eye out for them!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an old song from 1852, written by, HS Thompson. Billy Jack Wills, Bob's brother, re-wrote it somewhat and put a tune to it that would fit the Bob Wills style. It modulates from D to A and back, kinda like, "San Antonia Rose. NOTE: Since this song was originally written in 1852,I thought it would be appropriate to use a few photos of women from the 1800s era. I can only imagine what Lily Dale may have looked like. Verse one: (D)- As I hear the mockin birds, (D7)- I re - (G)- member the words, When you (D)- said that forever you'd love (A7)- me, Now (D)- happiness is gone, (D7)- mem - o - (G)- ries linger on, From the (D)- chains of our (A7)- love I set you (D)-free. (Modulate to A) (D) - (Eb) - (E7) Chorus: (A)- Sweet as the morning, (E7)- smile like the (A)- sunshine, (A7)- (D)- Ours was a (A)- love no words could (E7)- tell, (A)- I love you, (E7)- oh how I (A)- miss you, (A7)- (D)- Won't you come (E7)- back, Lily (A)- Dale. (A7) Verse two: (goes back to D) Since .... + Informações

PART 5-- "Bring it on Down to My House" Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel live at Waterloo Records Austin 2/26/09. Click here to see most of this show in high quality: www.youtube.com. + Informações

Bob Wills was the driving force behind Western Swing, a form of Country & Western that fuses Jazz, Hillbilly, Blues, Big Band Swing, and many more rhythm forms together creating a truly Unique, Diverse and Unforgettable sound. Wills' shrewd mix of horns, fiddles and steel guitar made for a swinging sound that grabbed the public's ear during the mid 1930s and 1940s. Bob Wills was born into a family of fiddlers on March 6, 1905. His father, John Wills regularly won Texas fiddling competitions. Bob learned how to play fiddle and mandolin from his father. As a young man, Wills performed at house dances, medicine shows and in 1929 made his debut on the radio. With commercial sponsorship, Wills' bands performed on radio in the early 1930s as "Aladdin's Laddies" (for the Aladdin Lamp Co.) and "The Light Crust Doughboys" (for Light Crust Flour). Following a salary dispute, Wills renamed his band the Texas Playboys and relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he had a live radio show. This exposure led to a contract with the American Recording Corporation - later absorbed into Columbia Records. In September 1935, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys recorded their first songs in a makeshift recording studio in an old Dallas Warehouse. From that point on, The Texas Playboys became an overnight sensation and recorded prolifically and made such classics as "Steel Guitar Rag", "Maiden's Prayer", "Take Me Back to Tulsa" and Wills' signature song, "San Antonio Rose". Their biggest hit, was "New .... + Informações

Bob Wills was the driving force behind Western Swing, a form of Country & Western that fuses Jazz, Hillbilly, Blues, Big Band Swing, and many more rhythm forms together creating a truly Unique, Diverse and Unforgettable sound. Wills' shrewd mix of horns, fiddles and steel guitar made for a swinging sound that grabbed the public's ear during the mid 1930s and 1940s. Bob Wills was born into a family of fiddlers on March 6, 1905. His father, John Wills regularly won Texas fiddling competitions. Bob learned how to play fiddle and mandolin from his father. As a young man, Wills performed at house dances, medicine shows and in 1929 made his debut on the radio. With commercial sponsorship, Wills' bands performed on radio in the early 1930s as "Aladdin's Laddies" (for the Aladdin Lamp Co.) and "The Light Crust Doughboys" (for Light Crust Flour). Following a salary dispute, Wills renamed his band the Texas Playboys and relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he had a live radio show. This exposure led to a contract with the American Recording Corporation - later absorbed into Columbia Records. In September 1935, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys recorded their first songs in a makeshift recording studio in an old Dallas Warehouse. From that point on, The Texas Playboys became an overnight sensation and recorded prolifically and made such classics as "Steel Guitar Rag", "Maiden's Prayer", "Take Me Back to Tulsa" and Wills' signature song, "San Antonio Rose". Their biggest hit, was "New .... + Informações

We need your help paying tribute to a living legend of American music?Willie Nelson?by supporting a CD/DVD that re-imagines his songs in the style of Western Swing icon Bob Wills. Imagine the most sublime Nelson music given a new setting of sophisticated yet grounded western swing stylings, a bit of mariachi, a touch of Chet Baker played by a family of season acoustic musicians - violin, cello, trumpet, upright bass, classical and steel string guitars, mandolin, female and male vocals and harmonies. The recordings are done, but we need your help spreading the word about our fundraising campaign to bring this very special project to CD, DVD, and stages. Here are 4 simple ways you can make it happen! 1. Copy and paste this into your Facebook or Twitter status message: Help Strings Attached bring "House of Wills" (Willie Nelson's songs in the style of Bob Wills) to CD/DVD/stages/more budurl.com [On Facebook, tag me by typing @will taylor and/or @Strings Attached (if you are a fan) then select us from the resulting dropdown. On Twitter, tag @WilliamBTaylor] 2. Post a video to your Facebook/Twitter/YouTube accounts with the above message: Video link: www.youtube.com 3. Forward this email or compose one of your own using my email as a template. 4. Make a donation to our Kickstarter project page to help make our vision a reality: budurl.com You will find audio and video samples on the project page: budurl.com as well as artist bios, project goals, and benefits to you, our .... + Informações

Tribute song to Bob Wills. + Informações

Willie Nelson, country artist, Home Motel performed by Karen Mal and Will Taylor Read more about it here: budurl.com www.budurl.com We need your help paying tribute to a living legend of American music?Willie Nelson?by supporting a CD/DVD that re-imagines his songs in the style of Western Swing icon Bob Wills. Imagine the most sublime Nelson music given a new setting of sophisticated yet grounded western swing stylings, a bit of mariachi, a touch of Chet Baker played by a family of season acoustic musicians - violin, cello, trumpet, upright bass, classical and steel string guitars, mandolin, female and male vocals and harmonies. The recordings are done, but we need your help spreading the word about our fundraising campaign to bring this very special project to CD, DVD, and stages. Here are 4 simple ways you can make it happen! 1. Copy and paste this into your Facebook or Twitter status message: Help Strings Attached bring "House of Wills" (Willie Nelson's songs in the style of Bob Wills) to CD/DVD/stages/more budurl.com [On Facebook, tag me by typing @will taylor and/or @Strings Attached (if you are a fan) then select us from the resulting dropdown. On Twitter, tag @WilliamBTaylor] 2. Post a video to your Facebook/Twitter/YouTube accounts with the above message: Video link: www.youtube.com 3. Forward this email or compose one of your own using my email as a template. 4. Make a donation to our Kickstarter project page to help make our vision a reality: budurl.com You will .... + Informações

Just some pickin' and grinnin' with the boys down in Luckenbach, TX. + Informações

Bob Wills was the driving force behind Western Swing, a form of Country & Western that fuses Jazz, Hillbilly, Blues, Big Band Swing, and many more rhythm forms together creating a truly Unique, Diverse and Unforgettable sound. Wills' shrewd mix of horns, fiddles and steel guitar made for a swinging sound that grabbed the public's ear during the mid 1930s and 1940s. Bob Wills was born into a family of fiddlers on March 6, 1905. His father, John Wills regularly won Texas fiddling competitions. Bob learned how to play fiddle and mandolin from his father. As a young man, Wills performed at house dances, medicine shows and in 1929 made his debut on the radio. With commercial sponsorship, Wills' bands performed on radio in the early 1930s as "Aladdin's Laddies" (for the Aladdin Lamp Co.) and "The Light Crust Doughboys" (for Light Crust Flour). Following a salary dispute, Wills renamed his band the Texas Playboys and relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he had a live radio show. This exposure led to a contract with the American Recording Corporation - later absorbed into Columbia Records. In September 1935, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys recorded their first songs in a makeshift recording studio in an old Dallas Warehouse. From that point on, The Texas Playboys became an overnight sensation and recorded prolifically and made such classics as "Steel Guitar Rag", "Maiden's Prayer", "Take Me Back to Tulsa" and Wills' signature song, "San Antonio Rose". Their biggest hit, was "New .... + Informações

Live at Billy Bob's, Willie Nelson's 4th of July Picnic 2011. + Informações

B. Wills Previously unreleased... Taken from the "Red Headed Stranger" 2000 remastered American Milestones series. 'Bout as good as Lone Star music gets.. + Informações

Will Taylor and Strings attached doing their "House of Wills" show (Willie Nelson in the style of Bob Wills) at Central Market in Austin, 9/17/10. Vocals by Karen Mal and Steve Carter.. + Informações