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The world has changed a great deal since 1938. That was the year fiddle and mandolin player Johnny Gimble, at age 13, first appeared with his brothers on radio station KGBK in their hometown of Tyler, ...

His two-step is maybe more of a two-and-a-half step these days, but his quips are still ready and his fiddle work as sweet as ever - not bad at all for 82 years, which is what Texas fiddler Johnny ...

Born in Tyler, Texas fiddler Johnny Gimble (1926-2015) lived in Dallas in the 50s and was a regular on the radio show The Big D Jamboree. supplied / CMH Records “The message in our kind of music is ...

In February, the Austin trio Hot Club of Cowtown released a new CD of songs by the late western swing legend Bob Wills. Tonight, the group gets to play with a living one. Tonight’s River Sounds ...