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Read [Charles Townsend Book] ^ San Antonio Rose: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF BOB WILLS (Music in American Life) Online ^ PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. San Antonio Rose: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF BOB WILLS (Music in American Life) San Antonio Rose: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF BOB WILLS-a volume in the series Music in American Life. TOWNSEND, professor of history at West Texas State University, won a Grammy Award in 1975 for his brochure notes accompanying United Artists' release of For the Last Time, the last recording session of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys.. It is doubtful that anyone will ever write a more complete or more accurate account of Wills and his music." ---Bill C. "You can change the name of an old song, rearr
| Title | : | San Antonio Rose: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF BOB WILLS (Music in American Life) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.60 (658 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 025201362X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 498 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-10 |
| Language | : | English |
Townsend interviewed over 200 people, including Wills himself, listened to every known recording and transcription of Wills's music, and seems to have examined just about every piece of written material that is available on the subject. It is doubtful that anyone will ever write a more complete or more accurate account of Wills and his music.' -- Bill C. Malone, Journal of American History . From the Back Cover 'In what was clearly a labor of love, Townsend has produced a thoroughly entertaining book, which is important both as a biography and as a study of popular culture
San Antonio Rose: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF BOB WILLS-a volume in the series Music in American Life. TOWNSEND, professor of history at West Texas State University, won a Grammy Award in 1975 for his brochure notes accompanying United Artists' release of For the Last Time, the last recording session of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys.. It is doubtful that anyone will ever write a more complete or more accurate account of Wills and his music." ---Bill C. "You can change the name of an old song, rearrange it and make it swing." ---Bob Wills, Time Changes Everything ·"One can only stand in awe at the kind of work that went into Townsend's bookSan Antonio Rose must be recognized as a major advance in the study of American music It is a masterpiece of layout and design, rich with photos and well-done illustrations, and should be in the library of anyone interested in American music." ---Charles Wolfe, Journal of Country Music. ·"In what was clearly a labor of love, Townsend has produced a thoroughly entertaining book, which is important both as a biography and as a study of popular culture. Townsend interviewed over 200 people, including Wills himself, listened to every known recording and transcription of Wills's music, and seems to have examined just about every piece of written material that is avai
Super Book Great book!!! Excellent research!!. A scholar's excellent appreciation of Bob Wills . Ronald Scheer Lovers of western swing owe a debt of gratitude to musicologist Charles Townsend, who spent many years collecting material for this wonderful biography of Bob Wills. In addition to many interviews with Bob and Betty Wills in the years (1971-73) before his death, Townsend talked at length to scores of people who worked with Wills and remembered him.The great achievement of the book is its warm appreciation of Wills and his Texas Playboys and its evocation of. In Texas, Bob Wills is Still The King OK. I'm a little biased. My grandfather J.W. Shafer, otherwise known as "Bub Shafer" (don't ask me whynobody knows why), was a second cousin to Bob Wills. In this book, there's a photo of Bob standing in a cotton field near Turkey, Texas and he's got his arm around a young boy that looks about 13-years-old at the oldest. The young boy was my grandfather, and the caption beneath the photo states that Bob is posing with a relative in the cotton fields near Tu
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