Fifty-one years ago today, the King of Western Swing, a major influence on modern country music, died in Texas.

Every Monday night, 86-year-old Gene “Pappy” Merritts can be found onstage at Robert’s Western World singing and playing fiddle for John England and the Western Swingers. The stage, under neon beer ...

Johnny Gimble, the so-called "king of the swing fiddle," has toured with Willie Nelson and recorded tracks with Merle Haggard, Charley Pride, Chet Atkins and Connie Smith. The 84-year-old ...

What you’ll find after the jump was posted to Vimeo only a few hours ago: a cleaned-up version version of Ken Harrison’s 1981 doc on Western Swing fiddle-playing legend Johnny Gimble titled, simply, ...

From May 7-9, the Western Swing Music Society of the Southwest will host a weekend of music and dancing to benefit young ...

RIFLE — Katie Glassman fuses soulful fiddling with a sparkling voice to span a range of genres from Western swing to vintage jazz and bluegrass. She and her band, Snapshot, will perform at the Clough ...

Western swing had lost a great deal of its popularity, and most dancehalls were less than full. Wills was battling the bottle, which led him to miss shows. He was also changing his home base from ...

Davy Crockett was a larger-than-life frontiersman, folk hero, U.S. congressman from Tennessee and a doomed Alamo defender who became an American icon in a 1950s television show and two films about the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Wynn Rutberg was 3-years old when she was first charmed by the keening wail of a fiddle during a visit to the National Western Stock Show’s Colorado Fiddle ...

The Lyons Fiddle Festival each year features a theme. This year showcased the family band. All bands were family members. The first band up on stage was the Martin Sisters bringing Western Swing. “We ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Wynn Rutberg was 3-years old when she was first charmed by the keening wail of a fiddle during a visit to the National Western Stock Show’s Colorado Fiddle ...