Western swing guitarists

1. Who performed Western swing music?
2. What is Western swing guitar?
3. What makes Western swing?
4. Who founded Western swing?

Who performed Western swing music?

The outlaw country movement led by Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Alvin Crow and the Pleasant Valley Boys and Asleep at the Wheel helped make Austin, Texas a major center of Western swing beginning in the 1970s.

What is Western swing guitar?

Western-swing rhythm guitar features a lot of moving chord voicings, but the progressions are usually simple in terms of the actual number of chords. ... Measures 3, 6, and 8 also feature inversions of the G chord. Classic Western-swing rhythm guitar blends a good moving bass line with colorful chord voicings.

What makes Western swing?

Easier to describe than to define, Western swing is ballroom dance music with a Western flair, played primarily on stringed instruments. However, horns were and are used in many Western-swing bands. Other characteristics are an emphasis on a heavy rhythm sound for dancing, and the aforementioned improvisation.

Who founded Western swing?

Bob Wills famously earned the “King of Western Swing” tag over four decades of dance hall-filling dominance with his band, the Texas Playboys. But the true innovator was Brown and his band, the Musical Brownies, who developed the prototype sound of Western swing in 1932.