WESTERN SWING

WESTERN SWING Western Swing is a unique combination of string-band music with jazz styles. It was born in the Texas-Oklahoma region in the late 1920s. Musicians there were influenced by blues and jazz recordings, as well as early pop crooners, to form an amalgam of traditional country sounds with a swinging accompaniment. The band credited with creating this sound in 1931–1932 was THE LIGHT CRUST DOUGHBOYS , featuring fiddler BOB WILLS and vocalist MILTON BROWN . Wills and Brown soon formed…