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Marvin "Junior" "Smokey" Montgomery (1913-2001), banjo player, was born Marvin Dooley Wetter on March 17, 1913, in Rinard, Iowa. Marvin...

Sollie Paul "Tex" Williams (August 23, 1917 - October 11, 1985) was an American Western Swing musician from Ramsey, Illinois. He is best...

Moon Mullican Aubrey "Moon" Mullican was born March 29, 1909, in the small east Texas town of Corrigan in Polk County, and passed away...

Donnell Clyde Cooley (December 17, 1910 - November 23, 1969), better known as "Spade" Cooley, was an American Western Swing musician, big...

Eldon Shamblin (April 24, 1916 - August 5, 1998) was the legendary guitarist and lead arranger for Bob Wills' Texas Playboys during the...

Al Stricklin was a jazz pianist whose lively playing helped give Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys the band's unique Western Swing flavor....

This is the story of the timeless King of Texas Hill Country Dance Hall Music - Adolph John Hofner (June 8, 1916 - June 2, 2000). Adolph...

Born in 1909 into a musical Oklahoma family that had fiddled for generations, Jimmie Revard moved to San Antonio, Texas before he became...

Clifton Lafayette Bruner (April 25, 1915 - August 25, 2000), known professionally as Cliff Bruner, was a fiddler and bandleader of the...

Born on November 28, 1914, in Bellevue, Texas, Cecil Brower was one of the creative forces behind the early development of Western Swing...

Floyd Tillman (December 8, 1914 - August 22, 2003) was a singer, songwriter and guitarist who, in the 1930s and 40s, helped develop...

Cindy Walker (July 20, 1918 - March 23, 2006) was a prolific songwriter of Western Swing, country and popular music, as well as a Western...

THE TUNE WRANGLERS were an early pioneering Western Swing band organized in the Cowboy ranch country of Bandera, Texas in 1934 by cowpoke...

William Lemuel Boyd (Bill Boyd) was born September 29, 1910, and died December 7, 1977. Boyd was a successful early Western Swing...

Roy Newman was born November 12, 1899 in Santa Anna, Texas, and died February 23, 1981 in Dallas. Nothing is known of Newman's childhood...

Shelly Lee Alley (1894-1964), fiddler and western swing pioneer, was born in Alleyton, Texas, on July 6, 1894, the son of John Ross and...

Jesse Thedford Ashlock (1915-1976), the Texas Jazz Fiddle King, was born on February 22, 1915 in Walker County Texas. He was the youngest...

William Leon McAuliffe (Jan. 3, 1917 - Aug. 20, 1988) was a Western Swing musician and singer famous for his steel guitar solos with Bob...

As good as Milton Brown's Musical Brownies already were in their first 3 years of existence, the Brownies made a quantum leap when Milton...

George Harvey Strait Sr. (born May 18, 1952) is a living legend of Western Swing and Traditional Texas Country music singer, bandleader,...