For 60 years Bob Wills made his kind of country music, and though he became ill and unfashionable, the desire to make music never left him.
Wills was born near Kosse, Texas, on . His father was a fiddler who taught the young Wills to play mandolin so that he could accompany him at ranch dances. Playing with his father introduced Wills to new styles of music, featuring guitars and trumpets, that inspired him to take up the fiddle...