Bob Wills & Western Swing: Ed Ward's History of Rock & Roll

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.comEd Ward and host Nate Wilcox fill in a gap in our discussion of his epic ⁠History of Rock & Roll Part 1, 1920-1963,⁠ with a look at Bob Wills and Western Swing. We pick up the history of country music where we left off after the Carter Family & Jimmie Rodgers episode and carry on to the 1930s emergence of a distinctive genre in Texas: Western Swing and …