Bob & His Texas Pl Wills - King Of Western Swing

No genre of music is conjured-up over night by one person and certainly many artists helped to create western swing. For all that, there can be no denying that fiddle playing Bob Wills was the 'main man' - who assimilated music from outside the rural scene, most notably jazz and blues, to create a unique musical form.When Wills and his Texas Playboys made their first records in September 1935 their opening number was Osage Stomp. Members of the personnel at that first date were Bob's brother, banjo player Johnny Lee Wills and guitarist 'Sleepy' Johnson. Some years later they recalled that they'd been copying a jazz band's recording of Ruckus Juice Shuffle - presumably the 1932 cut made by the Memphis Night Hawks.This four CD set, the first in a complete and definitive series, presents the first 100 commercially issued titles to feature the one and only Bob Wills. They have been expertly remastered from 78s in the legendary Joe Bussard collection.