ArtistInfo

Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

Band, 1934-1965 US
World
A.k.a. The Texas Playboys

Western swing band founded in 1934 by Bob Wills after leaving The Light Crust Doughboys, active until 1965, reuniting with an ailing Wills in 1973. After the initial breakup in 1965, the band continued performing breifly "The Texas Playboys", reuniting again as The Original Texas Playboys Under The Direction Of Leon McAuliffe from 1973-1986. Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1968, and into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame (as "Early Influence") in 1999.

Members

	Danny Alguire tr, cor 1912-1992 US
	Bob Wills voc, vn 1905-1975 US
	Johnny Gimble vn, man 1926-2015 US
	Jesse Ashlock vn, voc 1915-1976 US
	Johnnie Lee Wills bj, vn, voc 1912-1984 US
	Tommy Duncan voc 1911-1967 US
	Al Stricklin p 1908-1986 US
	Joe Ferguson b, voc, bvoc US
	Jimmy Widener eg US
	Herb Remington stg *1926 US
	Jody Nix dr US
	Tiny Moore man, eb 1920-1987
	Eldon Shamblin eg, g 1916-1998 US
	Millard Kelso p US
	Joe Holley vn US
	Ocie Stockard bj US
	Billy Jack Wills b 1926-1991 US
	Junior Barnard eg 1920-1951 US
	Monte Mountjoy dr 1912-1994 US
	Noel Boggs stg 1917-1974 US
	Luke Wills g, voc
	Leon McAuliffe stg, bvoc, voc 1917-1988 US
	Lee Ross voc US
	Alex Brashear tr US
	Evelyn McKinney voc
	Roy Honeycutt stg
	Johnny Cuviello dr US
	Dean McKinney voc US
	Louis Tierney vn, sax US
	Vance Terry stg
	Sleepy Johnson vn, g
	Milton Brown 1903-1936 US
	Leon Rausch voc, b *1927 US
	Keith Coleman vn, bvoc US
	Smokey Dacus dr *1911 US
	Tommy Perkins dr, bj
	Leon Huff voc US
	Hoyle Nix vn 1918-1985 US
	Gene Gasaway vn *1931 US
	Bob Boatright vn *1939 US
	Clarence Cagle p *1920 US
	Joe Frank Ferguson b, voc US
	Laura Lee voc *1920