San Antonio Rose
Subtitle: The Life and Music of Bob Wills
By: Charles R. Townsend ; with a discography and filmusicography by Bob Pinson
Series: Music in American Life
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Urbana, IL, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780252013621
Copyright date: 1976
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Contemporary popular music; Popular Music; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; General; Genres & Styles - Country & Bluegrass - General; Music / General
First sentence: Between Little Red River and Big Red River, about a mile off the highway that connects the small Texas towns of Turkey and Lakeview, stands an old abandoned farmhouse.
Table of contents: label: Preface
pagenum: xi; label: 1.
title: Cotton Fields and Cotton Camps
pagenum: 1; label: 2.
title: Down between the Rivers
pagenum: 16; label: 3.
title: "I Slurred My Fiddle ... to Play the Blues
pagenum: 36; label: 4.
title: Frontier Folk Music Moves to Town
pagenum: 44; label: 5.
title: Western Jazz
pagenum: 53; label: 6.
title: Light Crust Dough Boys and Texas Playboys
pagenum: 68; label: 7.
title: The Spread of Western Jazz
pagenum: 88; label: 8.
title: Music out of a Straightjacket
pagenum: 98; label: 9.
title: "You Hired Bob Wills, Didn't You?"
pagenum: 112; label: 10.
title: Here Comes de Judge
pagenum: 121; label: 11.
title: "The Ballad of 'Seabiscuit McAuliffe"
pagenum: 132; label: 12.
title: The Glory Years and the Most Versatile Band in America
pagenum: 143; label: 13.
title: Faded Loves
pagenum: 156 |; label: 14.
title: "San Antonio Rose," Western Swing, and Some of the Finest Jazzmen You Ever Heard
pagenum: 190; label: 15.
title: The Silver Screen and Music on the West Coast
pagenum: 206; label: 16.
title: That Certain Woman: Betty and the Summer of '42
pagenum: 215 |; label: 17.
title: "This Is the Army, Mr. Wills"
pagenum: 225; label: 18.
title: "Take Me Back to Tulsa"
pagenum: 235; label: 19.
title: Just Lookin' for a Home
pagenum: 261; label: 20.
title: "His Body Wore Out before His Desire"
pagenum: 277; label: 21.
title: Country Music Hall of Fame
pagenum: 283; label: 22.
title: More Tributes to a Pioneer Musician
pagenum: 295; label: 23.
title: A Product of the Jazz Age
pagenum: 310 |; label: 24.
title: Twilight Falls
pagenum: 316; label: Essay on Sources
pagenum: 325; label: The Bob Wills Recordings:; label: A Comprehensive Discography
title: Bob Pinson
pagenum: 337; label: A Preliminary Bob Wills Filmography
title: Bob Pinson
pagenum: 373; label: Index
pagenum: 377