Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer

Category: Early Influence

Inducted: 1999

Inducted by: Chris Isaak

Inducted Members: Bob Wills, Tommy Duncan, Leon McAuliffe, Johnny Gimble, Joe Holley, Tiny More, Herb Remington, Eldon Shamblin, Al Stricken

Snubbed Members: Louis Tierney

Country Music Hall of Fame: 1968
Inducted into Rock Hall Revisited in 2002 (ranked #33 in the Influences - Pre-Rock Era category) .
Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
New San Antonio Rose (1940)☆☊
Take Me Back To Tulsa (1941)☆☊
New Spanish Two Step (1946)☆☊
Bubbles in My Beer (1947)☆☊

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No other country musician was, is, or will ever be as musically progressive as Bob Wills. A surface-level look might lead one to peg him as just another country & western star, but his musical style is so much vaster than that. Having listened to some of his stuff earlier today, I can vouch that his material is a swell melting pot of so many styles: swing, honky-tonk, ragtime, blues, tradtional country & western, New Orleans jazz, stride piano, etc.

Those who profess to love classic country, jazz, or just great music in general ought to do themselves a favor and check out some Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. ASV/Living Era's The King of Western Swing is a fine single-disc retrospective (25 tracks in total) that covers the prime period of 1935-1945. Boot Heel Drag: The MGM Years is a solid 2-disc set of what they performed in the 1947-1954 timeframe. Those who want a little of every era should invest in Rhino's Anthology: 1935-1973 (Another 2-disc set). Now hop to it!

Posted by Zach on Tuesday, 03/10/2015 @ 17:16pm

Where's the list of inductees?

Posted by dmg on Tuesday, 07/19/2016 @ 21:29pm

Did you contact FRL?

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 07/19/2016 @ 23:22pm

Inducted members have been added.

Posted by FRL on Wednesday, 07/20/2016 @ 14:16pm

The Texas Playboys have been removed from the rock hall website for some reason!

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 05/2/2019 @ 00:10am

Inductees into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame are just names on paper and a museum. You don't have room for words, names, letters? What's going on here? You are going to take them out of the hall of fame because you don't have signatures from them to put on a plaque? Seriously? Is this just a glitch on the site, like they had a few years ago?

Posted by Roy on Friday, 05/3/2019 @ 08:10am

There are currently five inductees from the class of 99 who are still alive.

Posted by The Dude on Thursday, 05/16/2019 @ 16:09pm

It's been fixed. They are all still inductees and all showing on the rock hall site.

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 05/16/2019 @ 20:33pm

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