BillboardBooks New York 1998

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str. 224

format 16 x 24 cm

waga 550 g

Blend some hot Texas fiddling with a bit of blues, a taste of Tex-Mex, a dash of Dixieland, a pinch of Tin Pan Alley pop, and a little big band jazz, add a heap of whoops and hollers, and you've got "western swing: as only the undisputed "King of Western Swing," Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, could play it. A larger-than-life figure and a legend in his own time, Bob Wills was a major country star for over five decades. From playing radio dates and dances as a member of the Aladdin Laddies and the Light Crust Doughboys in the early thirties, to barnstorming tours across the Southwest playing dance halls with the Texas Playboys, Wills was an innovator and an entertainer par excellence, as well as a major ifluence on country stars like Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, George Strait and Ray Benson. Now Bob Wills's remarkable and extraordinary life can be seen in a very personal way in this exceptional bioraphy which was a nominee for the 199! 8 Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Awards. It is a moving memoir written by his daughter, Rosetta. Revealing the inside story of Wills's offstage life though narrative, letter extracts, postcards, diary excerpts, adn many never-before-seen archival photographs - the book chronicles five generations of the Wills family in this intertwining tale of a country music legend and the daughter he left behind. From his five marriages to his gold record for "San Antonio Rose," from his destructive drinking to his induction into the Nashville Country Music Hall of Fame, Bob Wills's life story comes alive as it never has before.