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[Ruth Sheldon] Å Bob Wills: Hubbin' It ☆ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Bob Wills: Hubbin' It It is a rich source of historical detail on the life of one of America's great musical innovators.Distributed for the Country Music Foundation Press. Unavailable for decades, this pioneering biography of the King of Western Swing returns to print in a handsome new edition with photographs, index, and a new critical introduction.Few figures in country music's history have left as distinctive and lasting an impression as Bob Wills (1905-1975). Despite his passing, his legacy has been carrie
| Title | : | Bob Wills: Hubbin' It |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.13 (738 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0915608189 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-03 |
| Language | : | English |
It is a rich source of historical detail on the life of one of America's great musical innovators.Distributed for the Country Music Foundation Press. Unavailable for decades, this pioneering biography of the King of Western Swing returns to print in a handsome new edition with photographs, index, and a new critical introduction.Few figures in country music's history have left as distinctive and lasting an impression as Bob Wills (1905-1975). Despite his passing, his legacy has been carried forward in the music of such modern stars as Merle Haggard and George Strait.In 1938, when Wills was thirty-three and nearing the height of his fame, journ
Since then, she has developed a career as petroleum consultant, historian of the oil and gas industry, and foreign correspondent (including five years covering the Vietnam War). . At the time she wrote this book, Ruth Sheldon was a reporter for the Tulsa Tribune. Under the name Ruth Sheldon Knowles, she has written several other best-selling books, including The Great
An expert fiddler and a magnetic showman, Wills popularized a style of Southwestern dance music known as western swing, a rhythmic hybrid of Texas fiddle music, blues, and big band swing that set dance halls alight across the Southwest in the thirties and forties. Despite his passing, his legacy has been carried forward in the music of such modern stars as Merle Haggard and George Strait. Working with the complete cooperation of Wills, Sheldon produced a biography that fully captures the ebullient personality of Wills and reflects the bandleader's vision of himself. From the Back Cover Few figures in country music's history have left as distinctive and lasting an impression as Bob Wills (1905-75). Now restored to print for the first time since its initial 1938 publication, Hubbin' It
Sole place for early Bob Wills history. This work is a reprint of the 1930's personal pub of Ruth Shelton with notes by noted Wills biographer Charles Townsend. There is no other place to get some of the material that is in this book than right here. Must read for Western Swing/Wills music historian.. Interesting reading, but extremely flawed. Although it is a valuable artifact, Ruth Sheldon's Wills biography is rife with errors, most of which were contributed by Wills himself. Townsend made the mistake of using Sheldon's book as a key resource in his biography of Wills, but there are many erroneous statements, things that Townsend did not cross-check, that aggrandized Wills' role in the "invention" of western swing. Treat the book as a quaint period piece, but it is not definitive history!. "Hubbing It" according to Kindle Customer. This is a good short history of Bob Wills up to 19Hubbing It This is a good short history of Bob Wills up to 1938. However, it does not compare to Townsend's San Antonio Rose which is comprehensive and covers his whole life even the warts.. 8. However, it does not compare to Townsend's San Antonio Rose which is comprehensive and covers his whole life even the warts.
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