San Antonio Rose: The Life and Music of Bob Wills by Charles R. Townsend / ISBN 0252004701 / 1976 / 2nd Printing / University of Illinois Press / History/Biography/Music
Signed with inscription by author. Dust jacket badly torn and worn. Book itself has minor to moderate shelf wear top and bottom. Binding good, clean throughout. Good to very good excepting the dust jacket.
Early Life: Traces Wills's upbringing in a family of frontier fiddlers.
Musical Impact: Shows how Wills combined Black and white musical styles to shape country and popular music.
Career: Covers his years touring with the Texas Playboys on the radio and in dance halls, recording over 550 songs.
Final Years: Details his final 1973 recording session and his death in 1975.
San Antonio Rose: The Life and Music of Bob Wills by Charles R. Townsend / ISBN 0252004701 / 1976 / 2nd Printing / University of Illinois Press / History/Biography/Music
Signed with inscription by author. Dust jacket badly torn and worn. Book itself has minor to moderate shelf wear top and bottom. Binding good, clean throughout. Good to very good excepting the dust jacket.
Early Life: Traces Wills's upbringing in a family of frontier fiddlers.
Musical Impact: Shows how Wills combined Black and white musical styles to shape country and popular music.
Career: Covers his years touring with the Texas Playboys on the radio and in dance halls, recording over 550 songs.
Final Years: Details his final 1973 recording session and his death in 1975.
