Bob Wills

Bob Wills
Bob Wills
	Wills pada sekitar tahun 1946
Informasi latar belakang
Nama lahir	James Robert Wills
Nama lain	"King of Western Swing"
Lahir	6 Maret 1905; Limestone County, Texas, AS
Meninggal	13 Mei 1975 (umur 70); Fort Worth, Texas, AS
Genre	Western swing
Tahun aktif	1929‒1969
Label	Vocalion, OKeh, Columbia, MGM, Liberty
Artis terkait	Light Crust Doughboys, Texas Playboys

James Robert Wills (6 Maret 1905 – 13 Mei 1975) adalah seorang musisi, penulis lagu, dan ketua band Western swing asal Amerika. Dianggap oleh para otoritas musik sebagai salah satu pendiri Western swing,^[1]^[2]^[3] ia banyak dikenal sebagai Raja Western Swing (setelah kematian Spade Cooley yang memakai julukan "Raja Western Swing" dari 1942 sampai 1969).

Wills membentuk beberapa band dan memainkan stasiun-stasiun radio di belahan kawasan Selatan dan Barat sampai ia membentuk Texas Playboys pada 1934 dengan Wills memainkan fiddle, Tommy Duncan memainkan piano dan vokal, gitaris ritme June Whalin, pemain banjo tenor Johnnie Lee Wills, dan Kermit Whalin, yang memainkan gitar baja dan bass. Band tersebut giat bermain di sebuah stasiun radio Tulsa, Oklahoma dan menambahkan Leon McAuliffe pada gitar baja, pianis Al Stricklin, pemain drum Smokey Dacus, dan sebuah sesi tanduk yang memperlebar suara band tersebut. Wills menghimpun aransemen seperti jazz dan band tersebut meraih ketenaran nasional pada 1940an dengan hit-hit seperti "Steel Guitar Rag", "New San Antonio Rose", "Smoke On The Water", "Stars And Stripes On Iwo Jima", dan "New Spanish Two Step".

Referensi

^ Mazor, Barry (February 11, 2009). "The Tiffany Transcriptions, Back and Better". The Wall Street Journal. Diakses tanggal January 13, 2010.
^ Wolff, Country Music, "Big Balls In Cowtown: Western Swing From Fort Worth To Fresno", p. 29: If any single person deserves to be considered the 'father' of western swing, it must be Bob Wills."
^ West, "Trails And Footprints", p. 39: "Snyder [Texas] hosts the West Texas Western Swing Festival ('Come Fiddle Around in Snyder'), recognizing the regional origins of the father of western swing, Bob Wills, from Turkey (a bit more than a hundred miles due north in Hall County) ..."

Daftar pustaka

Townsend, Charles R. (1998). "Bob Wills". In The Encyclopedia Of Country Music. Paul Kinsbury, Editor. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 594–5.
West, Elliot. "Trails And Footprints: The Past Of The Future Southern Plains". The Future Of The Southern Plains (pp. 17–37) edited by Sherry L. Smith. University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-8061-3735-3
Whitburn, Joel. The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits. Billboard Books, 2006. ISBN 0-8230-8291-1
Wolff, Kurt; Orla Duane. Country Music: The Rough Guide. Rough Guides, 2000. ISBN 1-85828-534-8

Pranala luar

Official Web site and virtual museum
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Texas Playboys Web site
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
The Bob Wills Tiffany Transcriptions
Western Swing Diarsipkan 2009-02-07 di Wayback Machine.
Famous Texans
(Inggris) Bob Wills di Find a Grave

[WSJ-1] Mazor, Barry (February 11, 2009). "The Tiffany Transcriptions, Back and Better". The Wall Street Journal. Diakses tanggal January 13, 2010.

[2] Wolff, Country Music, "Big Balls In Cowtown: Western Swing From Fort Worth To Fresno", p. 29: If any single person deserves to be considered the 'father' of western swing, it must be Bob Wills."

[3] West, "Trails And Footprints", p. 39: "Snyder [Texas] hosts the West Texas Western Swing Festival ('Come Fiddle Around in Snyder'), recognizing the regional origins of the father of western swing, Bob Wills, from Turkey (a bit more than a hundred miles due north in Hall County) ..."

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