UNIDENTIFIED MAN: The Texas Playboys are on the air. BOB WILLS: (Singing) Now, listen everybody from near and far, if you want to know who we are, we're the Texas Playboys from the Lone Star State.
Born May 30, 1926 near Tyler, Johnny Gimble cut his teeth as a fiddler with Bob Wills’ famed Texas Playboys in the late 1940s and early 1950s before establishing himself as one of the great western ...
Raised in Texas blues country, in a house full of music, the son of Houston saxophonist and bandleader, Maynard Gimble, he began to reveal his budding talent at the age of four. But, despite his early ...
Fiddle player Johnny Gimble, whose pioneering style encompassed and influenced Western swing, jazz and country, died Saturday, May 9th, in Dripping Springs, Texas, following complications from several ...
There's a lyric in the old Kenny Rogers pop tune, "The Gambler" that states: "You've got to know when to hold and know when to fold." Now vocalist Jeffrey Gimble's debut CD Beyond Up High isn't a ...
It was 16 years ago that the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Texan Johnny Gimble a National Heritage Fellowship, the closest American equivalent to the "living national treasure" titles ...
Johnny Gimble, the so-called "king of the swing fiddle," has toured with Willie Nelson and recorded tracks with Merle Haggard, Charley Pride, Chet Atkins and Connie Smith. The 84-year-old ...
Parents need to know that Gimble the Happy Tree Frog is an interactive digital storybook that incorporates math concepts. Gimble decides to throw a pizza party to cheer up his friend Franco the Fox.
There are plenty of little tasks for you to complete in Badgetown, and one of them is finally repairing Gimble’s hot air balloon so you can start traveling to different regions in Ooblets. Here’s how ...