http://www.theeagle.com/brazossunday/030605wills.php

Isn't this also the anniversary of the fall of the Alamo in 1836?

Yes it is. It was not as entertaining as Bob Wills, no matter what John Wayne or Billy Bob Thornton would have us believe.

It don't matter who's in Austin, Bob Wills is still the king.

[This message has been edited by Bull Butter (edited 3/6/2005 9:36p).]

This is probably one of my top 5 favorite CD's I have.

They recorded it shortly before he died. Actually, I think in reading the liner notes, he left the recording studio, went home and never left his house again and died like 2 months later.

Great album, has most of their hits.

DANG! I sure hope I get to live that old. And it's amazing that he's lived to be a 100 and with playing at a million honky tonks all over the place.

He didn't live to be that old. He lived to be 70.

Yesterday WOULD Have been his 100th birthday.

This is a really good tribute album. In fact Haggard used several of the Texas Playboys to record it.

...and Townes Van Zandt would have turned 61 today.

We used to tell the bartender/dj at the Chicken that it was Bob Wills day in Turkey,Texas and could they play some of his tunes. That guy must have thought it was Bob Wills day every other week, but he always played a song or two for us. Of course, they're always playing Bob Wills at the Chicken!

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

Oh well some will get it.

My grandparents lived in Ft. Worth in the late 20's and early 30's and at one point during that time they lived on the same block as Bob Wills and his wife and even sold them an extra mattress that they had. Anyways, this was before Bob made it big, my Grandad played the mandolin and sat in with him occasionally on gigs and jam sessions before they got their big radio deal and became Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. My grandparents were also friends with Herman Arnspiger, who was a guitarist and member of the Texas Playboys and actually named their first son after him.