Bob Wills

An expert fiddler and a magnetic showman, Bob Wills (1905–1975) popularizeda style of Southwestern dance music known as western swing, a rhythmic hybrid offiddle music, blues, and big band swing. In 1938, when Wills was thirty-three andnearing the height of his fame, journalist Ruth Sheldon chronicled Wills’s rags-to richesrise. She produced a biography that captures the ebullient personality of Willsand reflects the bandleader’s vision of himself. Hubbin’ It provides a window intothe daily life of a working musician during the Depression and a rich source ofhistorical detail on one of America’s great musical innovators.