Bob Wills

Person · Open Library

Works

3

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Acting · Limestone County, Texas, USA

Bob Wills, fiddler and band leader of Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys, was an influential developer of the western swing music style in the late 1930s through the 1940s. He appeared on over a dozen Western films.

Known for

• This Is Pop — Self (archive footage)2021
• Austin City Limits — Self1975
• Blazing the Western Trail — Bob1945
• Lawless Empire — Bob1945
• Rhythm Round-Up — Bob Wills1945
• Wyoming Hurricane — Bob1944
• The Last Horseman — Bob1944
• Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys — Himself1944
• Saddles and Sagebrush — Bob -Texas Playboys Band Leader1943
• Riders of the Northwest Mounted — Mountie Bob Wills1943

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

United States

Active from

1905

Active to

1975

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

56,307

Total plays

413,295

James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975), better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader of Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys. Considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western swing, he was universally known as the King of Western Swing. Wills formed several bands and played radio stations around the South and West until he formed the Texas Playboys in 1934 with Wills on fiddle, Tommy Duncan on piano and vocals <a href="https://www

via Last.fm · Bob Wills

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

   · 2009 · cited 59,196x

2. Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis.

   · 1985 · cited 15,236x

3. The Sequence of the Human Genome

   · 2001 · cited 10,201x

4. <scp>micro</scp>‐<scp>checker</scp>: software for identifying and correcting genotyping errors in microsatellite data

   · 2004 · cited 8,895x

5. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

   · 2017 · cited 6,171x

via Crossref · CC0

Music

Official website

Link to the official site · 6,745 chars · not written by Vinony

Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Bob

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Kosse

Place of death

Fort Worth

Occupation

musician

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Field of work

music

Genre

Western swing

Instrument

voice

Official website

bobwills.com

Image

Bob Wills photograph - Cropped.jpg

via Wikidata · CC0