Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys News

Two of Asheville's hottest bands -- the Spaceheaters and the Sireens -- will present an afternoon of snappy and explosive, tender and soulful swing and jazz at 3 p.m. today at Green Creek Winery.

Hard-charging country singer Chris Cagle may bring a few new tunes tonight to Cowboy's Dance Hall.

And here's the PLAYLIST Rod McKuen - Here's to the Girls of the Summer The Poets - Vowels of Love Eva Moon - Too Damn Happy Madame Pamita - Madame Pamita's Theme Song - Madame Pamita's Wax Works Knoebels - Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella - Wurlitzer 165 Teddy & Darrel - Hold On I'm Coming Patricia Barber - Let It Rain - Modern Cool Lambert, Hendrix & ...

Mark Morris' choreography continues to please the public with its naturalness, whimsical humor and life-affirming spirit, qualities on display as his company finishes out the 2009 American Dance Festival season.

Based in Tulsa, Okla., it's no wonder The Tractors have one foot in country music and the other in rock 'n' roll.

If it's 2 p.m. and folks are kicking up their heels on a dance floor at the Multi-Purpose Events Center, it must be Western swing time in Wichita Falls.

It's not enough that Texas invented smoked brisket, Longhorn hood ornaments, the Alamo and dead armadillos at every intersection.

At this late date you're surely aware of the plight of 508 Park Avenue , the site of the makeshift studio in which Robert Johnson, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys and perhaps even Charlie Parker recorded.

By DARREN WHITE FORT WORTH - There's no rest for the country musician.The legendary Merle Haggard has scheduled more than 30 dates through the end of the year.

Jack Webb, of "Dragnet" fame, was the announcer for Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys? Yes, indeed! For a few months, at any rate.

A recent late-spring clean-up resulted in the discovery of a stash of Dallas-related 78s I'd collected back when I was music editor, which was some time between the switchover from cylinder recordings to reel-to-reel. Most are the scratchy leftovers of forgotten footnotes; one or two sound like sandpaper rubbing against the echo of a pedal steel.

Bandleader, fiddler, singer, and songwriter, James Robert Wills is the most famous exponent of the popular musical combination now known as western swing, which synthesized ragtime, traditional fiddling, New Orleans jazz, blues, Mexican songs, and big band ... ABOUT BOB WILLS Bandleader, fiddler, singer, and songwriter, James Robert Wills is the ...