Bob Wills
Born | March 6, 1905 |
Hometown | Kosse, Texas, United States |
Spouse | Mary Louise Parker (m 1939 - 1941) , Mary Helen Brown (m 1938 - 1939) , Ruth McMaster (m 1936 - 1936) , Edna Posey (m 1923 - 1975) , Betty Anderson (m 1942 - 1975) |
Parents | John Tompkins Wills , Emma Lee Foley |
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Dancing with a fading past: Why hundreds flock to tiny Kansas town on Saturday nights
- In this town of 17, a show in the back of a century-old general store regularly draws hundreds from across the region.
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Lou Diamond Phillips, Bob Wills and more to be honored at OKC's Western Heritage Awards
The 2023 Western Heritage Awards will be handed out at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum to nominees including beer mogul Pete Coors.
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Severe weather possible Friday, Saturday events still scheduled
Nov. 3—Multiple major events planned for Hunt County this weekend are still scheduled, but organizers will be keeping an eye on the weather forecast. The Hunt County Veterans Day Parade, a fly-in, the Bob Wills Fiddle Festival and Contest, and Frontier Day at the Audie Murphy Cotton Museum were all set to proceed as previously announced, according to organizers. Meanwhile a memorial event for ...
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Spokane-based architecture firm rebrands as Bernardo Wills
Oct. 19—A longtime Spokane-based architecture firm has rebranded to reflect the design services it offers clients. Bernardo|Wills Architects announced Monday it shortened its name and will now do business as Bernardo Wills. The firm has also updated its logo. The new name reflects changes to the firm's core business functions, which consist of interior design, land use and planning, and ...
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How Amanda Shires, part of a country supergroup and power couple, found her own voice
'Take It Like a Man,' Shires' acclaimed album about marriage and desire, follows her co-founding of the Highwomen and recordings with husband Jason Isbell.
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In full swing at the Big Barn Dance with The Quebe Sisters
Sep. 9—The triple fiddle playing and three-part harmonies of The Quebe Sisters — siblings Grace, Sophia, and Hulda Quebe (pronounced Kway-bee) — have been filling concert halls and music festivals for more than 15 years. The Dallas-based performers are known for their unique fusion of Western swing, jazz, country, Texas-style fiddling, and other genres. Favoring the term "progressive Western ...
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From stories to artifacts, OKPOP Museum in Tulsa is gathering history while seeking funding
Formally the Oklahoma Museum of Popular Culture, the long-awaited Tulsa landmark has star-studded stories to tell - but first it needs to be finished.
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Warren Heylman, architect behind Parkade, airport and other iconic Spokane designs, dies at 98
Aug. 18—Warren C. Heylman was sure of his path in life, even as a kid growing up near Cliff Park's peak on the South Hill. "I just wanted to draw," Heylman told The Spokesman-Review in 2016. "Ever since I was a little boy, that's all I wanted to do." From that pencil came the designs for iconic structures of Spokane's skyline. The Parkade parking structure, the Riverfalls Tower on downtown's ...
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JUST A-SWINGIN': Western Swing Weekend draws hundreds of aficionados
Nov. 6—HULBERT — The Lodge at Sequoyah State Park was in full swing Friday. Western swing, that is. Famed musician Bob Wills would have been proud, as the dance floor of the grand banquet hall remained occupied all day by members of the Western Swing Music Society of the Southwest. They two-stepped around the room to the classic sounds of the old genre, only breaking to allow the next band to ...
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Front & Center: Bernardo|Wills Architects founding principal Bob Wills leaves lasting mark on Spokane
Jun. 27—Bernardo|Wills Architects founding principal Bob Wills says he wouldn't change anything about his 50-year career in architecture. Wills and Gary Bernardo founded Bernardo|Wills Architects in 1991 in an 8-by-10-foot space in the James S. Black Building in downtown Spokane. Since then, the 42-member firm has expanded into the Bissinger Building at 153 S. Jefferson St. Bernardo|Wills has ...
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Surveys show who sings about pickups most, and which truck's No. 1
An analysis by British website money.co.uk of 16,000 country songs from the 1950s to today shows 4.16% feature pickup trucks.
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