Lone star swing
Subtitle: on the trail of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
By: Duncan McLean.
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: McLean, Duncan, 1964- -- Travel -- Texas; Wills, Bob, 1905-1975; Texas Playboys; Western swing (Music) -- Texas -- History and criticism; Texas -- Description and travel
Description: Duncan McLean traveled from Orkney, Scotland, to Texas in search of the extraordinary mix of jazz, blues, country, and mariachi that is Western Swing.

This account of his travels takes in barbed-wire museums, onion festivals, hoe-downs, ghost towns, dead dogs, and ten thousand miles of driving through the Lone Star State. A constant soundtrack of vintage music from bands like the Texas Top Hands, The Lightcrust Doughboys, and the Modern Mountaineers cheers McLean as he tries, with great difficulty, to track down any trace of his greatest heroes: Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.