Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

James Robert (Bob) Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American country musician and songwriter.

He was born near Kosse, Texas; his father was a fiddle player who along with his grandfahter, taught the young

James Robert (Bob) Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American country musician and songwriter.

He was born near Kosse, Texas; his father was a fiddle player who along with his grandfahter, taught the young Wills to play the fiddle and the mandolin. In his 20s "Jim Rob" attended barber school, got married, and moved to Turkey, Texas, to be a barber. He regularly entered fiddle contests in West Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma and soon the fiddle had replaced the scissors in the young Wills' imagination. He headed to Fort Worth to pursue a career in music. It was there that while performing in a medicine show, the show's owner gave him the nickname "Bob."