Note the four note rhythm chords and the use of dominant 9th and 13th voicings. Shamblin was a self-taught guitarist with considerable arranging skills. The 1930s cowboy music group Sons of the Pioneers featured (beginning in 1934) a hot fiddle/guitar duo from Texas. In this week's guitar lesson, I'll show you an easy way to play lead chord changes over a Western Swing style rhythm. Leon Rhodes, who played hot country/jazz guitar with Ernest Tubb’s Texas Troubadors and was the staff guitarist for the Grand Ole Opry for many years, was featured on some of the 1960s Nashville recordings. View Entire Discussion (1 Comments) More posts from the Jazz community. The popular 1980s bluegrass band Hot Rize gave swing guitar more exposure with their performances as Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers. Hugh Farr on fiddle and Karl on guitar created a Western version of the Reinhardt/Grappelli sound. [5][58] The decline of Western swing in the years following the war also reflected the waning of the more mainstream big band sound. [41] The "front line" of Wills' orchestra consisted of either fiddles or guitars after 1944. According to Roy Lee Brown, Milton told the bass player to “Slap it like they do down in New Orleans.” Later Brown added jazz-influenced Bob Dunn on steel guitar. Later in 1933, Wills formed his Texas Playboys and over the next few years added drums, piano, horns, and the then-new electric steel guitar and standard guitar to the instrumentation of Western swing music. Western swing differs in several ways from the music played by the nationally popular horn-driven big swing bands of the same era. Introduced in 1931, the hollow-bodied electric guitar was immediately sought-after by guitarists struggling to be heard in the swing era of brass … Recording rosters show that beginning in September 1935, Wills utilized two fiddles, two guitars, and Leon McAuliffe playing steel guitar, banjo, drums and other instruments during recording sessions. During rehearsals at Will Ed Kemble’s furniture store, the Doughboys listened to all the latest 78 rpm recordings, which Kemble sold. This book includes 25 swingin' classics, including the solos of the best guitarists from yesterday and today, such as Chet Atkins, Ray Benson, Vince Gill, Roy Lanham Leon McAuliffe and Tommy Duncan both had solo careers after their stints with Wills. According to Merle Travis, "At that time "Western swing" was a household word. "The Cowboy's Bawdy Music". Arnspiger appears with a Gibson L-4 guitar in numerous early 1930s photographs. Apparently, you couldn’t buy a trumpet in Texas in the ’20s. "[30], In the early 1930s, Bob Wills and Milton Brown co-founded the string band that became the Light Crust Doughboys, the first professional band in this genre. In Clint Eastwood's 1982 movie Honkytonk Man, his character meets Bob Wills (played by Johnny Gimble, an original Texas Playboy), who is recording in a studio with other former band members. Wills’ vocal antics should be addressed here. )[66], In 2011 the Texas Legislature adopted a resolution designating western swing as the official "State Music of Texas". [29] Fred "Papa" Calhoun recalled that around 1930, he played in a band in Decatur, Texas that played "a lot of swing stuff like the Louisiana Five was playing back in those days. The music that they played in the dance halls was different than that which they played on the radio as the Light Crust Doughboys because the sponsor, W. Lee O’Daniel, picked the songs that the Doughboys played. [38] Waltzes and ballads were interspersed among faster songs if the dancers, who would dance two-step or round dances, became tired after faster numbers. Handy's "St. Louis Blues" (Decca 5070) using a shortened arrangement of what they played at dances at the Crystal Springs Dance Pavilion outside Fort Worth, Texas. They all made the switch to solid body guitars made by Leo Fender, and custom guitars by Semie Moseley during the 1950s. Through Hendrix, guitarists everywhere finally seemed to get it on a much larger scale than ever before—the Stratocaster was an instrument capable of extraordinary things. Groups like Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys and Milton Brown and the Musical Brownies were two of the most popular. It should be noted that the self-taught Shamblin wrote all the horn arrangements for Wills hits such as “Big Beaver” and “San Antonio Rose.” Billboard magazine listed Wills as the highest paid bandleader in the country. "They were pretty simple couples dances, two steps and the Lindy Hop with a few Western twirls added for good measure. [21][22] The first known use of the term Western swing in a national periodical was the June 10, 1944 issue of The Billboard: "...what with the trend to Western music in this section, Cooley's Western swing band is a natural. His unique style featuring string bends, bluesy licks, and an overdriven amplifier tone was at least ten years before its time. Whereas the music of the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers had retained some of the earlier folk ballad qualities; Western Swing was primarily for dancing. Brown was also the first to add piano to a Western swing band with pianist Fred “Papa” Calhoun. Western Swing Guitar Lesson – Time Jumpers Guitar Licks Western swing music combines bits of early jazz and country music together into a sound that became hugely popular throughout the 30s and 40s. "[54] Western swing bandleader Hank Thompson, who was stationed in San Pedro during World War II, said it was not uncommon to see "ten thousand people at the pier" at Redondo Beach. The roots of Western Swing began in 1929 at the Crystal Springs Dance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas and grew to small towns throughout the lower Great Plains throughout the 1930s, growing from Fort Worth house parties and West Texas ranch dances where fiddlers and guitarists played for dancers. Western swing was born in Texas in the 1930’s with the formation of a band called the Light Crust Doughboys, which later split into two other bands; Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies, and Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys. Some observers have called Barnard the first rock and roll guitarist. His band sound was decidedly more sophisticated than Wills’ early band although Brown never incorporated drums or horns as did Wills. In 1937, Wills added a young Oklahoma guitarist named Eldon Shamblin to the Playboys lineup. Country singer Mel Tillis recorded a Bob Wills tribute album and a number of new albums featuring Wills were recorded in Nashville during the 1960s. The annual South by Southwest music festival and the Austin City Limits PBS television series have contributed to this success. [24] This, however was preceded by this item on page 11 of the May 6, 1944 Billboard. It was so-called because it was used as a lead instrument in the then-popular American tango bands. You were lucky to find a ticket on a Wednesday night. Swing. Born in Weatherford, Oklahoma, Shamblin taught himself guitar and music by studying big-band charts and stock arrangements as a teen. … In the dance hall arrangement, the band would play at slow-drag tempo for as long as 15 minutes with an accompanying vocal. Eldon left the band to serve in the armed forces during World War II. Texas-style backup evolved from 1940s and ’50s Western swing guitarists who used swing-style “sock” chords to back up fiddle tunes. Eldon bought it for $225, paid out at $2 a week. The crowds of dancers loved the arrangement and eagerly anticipated the change in tempo. Swing was dance music, first and foremost. Johnson’s playing on later fiddle/guitar recordings with Wills from 1935 and 1936 include “Smith’s Reel” and “Waltz in D.” These recordings feature the same open-chording style used by Derwood Brown. Wills’ brother Johnny Lee, who later led his own band in Tulsa, played the banjo. In this guitar lesson you’ll learn how to play a jazzy sounding, western swing lead over a I, IV, V chord progression for a much more melodic sounding lead. Although the band was in a decline as far as popularity went, these years produced some of Wills most exciting music. "[56], Another orchestra from the era was the Deuce Spriggins Orchestra, which played nightly at the Western Palisades Ballroom on the Santa Monica Pier, then known as the largest ballroom on the West Coast. His rhythm style would ultimately re-define Western swing rhythm guitar. 50,000-watt radio station KVOO broadcast daily programs. The new style combined the jazz sounds of radio, records and the big dance halls of the central and northeastern United States with fiddle tunes, square dance music, blues, and other rural folk music. “Chinatown, My Chinatown” was written in 1906 and became a jazz classic when Louis Armstrong recorded Shamblin recounts that he developed his trademark rhythm style at Wills’ urging. Example #1 - Western Swing This style was born in the late 1940's with the rise of Western Swing - a hybrid of western-themed songs with jazz rhythm and harmony. Al Dexter had had a million-seller on his "Pistol Packin' Mama" record. Perth, Australia is known as the place where blockbuster film actors Heath Ledger and Sam Worthington were born. This concept is shown with a I–V (G6–D7/A) progression in the key of G major in Example 1. Reddit's home for all things related to Jazz. Flatpick.com is home of Flatpicking Guitar Magazine, the ultimate resource for flatpick and bluegrass acoustic guitar learning. page 119, Popular Music in America: The Beat Goes On. Legendary jazz guitarist Charlie Christian made recordings beginning in the early 1940s with the Benny Goodman orchestra. Robert Lee "Bob" Dunn (February 5, 1908 – May 27, 1971) was an American jazz trombonist and a pioneer Western swing steel guitarist. During a 1940 recording session, Wills asked him to “put some runs” into his rhythm guitar part on “Take Me Back To Tulsa.” Shamblin remembers this was the only time Wills ever told him what he wanted from the guitar. By the end of the Thirties, Milton Brown’s band had broken up (following the leader’s death on the highway), and the best-known, most influential Western swing pickers were guitarists Eldon Shamblin and steel guitarist Leon Speaking of Milton Brown and himself—working with popular songs done by Jimmie Davis, the Skillet Lickers, Jimmie Rodgers, songs he had learned from his father and others—Wills said, "We'd...pull these tunes down an set 'em in a dance category. [31], On February 9, 1932, Brown, his brother Derwood, Bob Wills, and C.G. Seriously, these are fun progressions to have under your fingers. The open ringing guitar chord rhythm style so popular in Appalachian styles was slowly replaced in the West by the newer style. Photos from 1933 show three guitar players in the Doughboys. The term swing, meaning big band dance music, wasn't used until after the 1932 hit "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)". [51], Riverside Rancho, operated by Marty Landau, had a 10,000-square-foot (930 m2) dance floor, three bars and a restaurant. No list of Western swing musicians, let alone guitar players, is complete without the name Eldon Shamblin. Club owners and promoters couldn't afford the combined city, state government taxes. [33] In January 1933, fiddler Cecil Brower, playing harmony, joined Jesse Ashlock to create the first example of harmonizing twin fiddles. The four-beat swing sound developed out of ragtime and early jazz music. Several thousand dancers would turn out on Saturday night to swing and hop. Western Swing was born in the '30s and is still going strong! During these years Wills carried a full line-up of horns. “When it comes to that whole Western Swing style of picking, you’re doing the basslines and melody lines at the same time. The Light Crust Doughboys’ repertoire as the Doughboys differed greatly from what was played at the dance halls. The Crystal Springs Dance Pavilion was at the center, and it prospered as a country music venue until the 1950s. The Doughboys changed their name to the Fort Worth Doughboys (to avoid any trouble between the band and W. Lee O’Daniel) and recorded “Sunbonnet Sue” and “Nancy Jane” for Victor. Haggard’s 1970 Wills tribute album led directly to the United Artists 1972 release For the Last Time: Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys two-album boxed set. Waco guitarist Ken Frazier to be inducted Into Western Swing Hall of Fame May 19, 2011 May 19, 2011 Updated Aug 17, 2019 0 × Thanks for reading! The Development of Western Swing Style Guitar Fiddle-tune-based flatpick style guitarists generally discover swing style guitar at some point in their development. In 1930 the group got a job promoting lamps on WBAP for the Aladdin Lamp Company and they were known as the Aladdin Laddies. The style features a moving bass … The syncopated Western swing guitar rhythm was not born until later. The "hot" guitarists of Southern California who were tearing it up in the late-40s and the 50s, when Western Swing was really "goin' on," were using guitars like Paul Bigsby solid bodies, Gibson Super 400, and L-5 guitars with pickups added. He was particularly important to the development of Western Swing music as one of the true innovators of the electric guitar. Shamblin’s solo guitar work has been incorrectly (in my opinion) called “Christian-esque” in numerous accounts of his style. Try a Sample Lesson Chord Melody Basics, Part 1: Triad Inversions This album is now available in CD format at a bargain price and contains lots of great Eldon-style rhythm guitar. Many of the early Western swing bands featured a tenor banjo in their lineup and some kept the instrument long after most swing and jazz bands had replaced rhythm banjo with guitar. The role of the sax section and the trumpet section had been replaced with a fiddle and a lap steel guitar. Wills’ post-war groups featured string musicians who played harmonized section choruses much like a horn group. The name of this band changed often, depending on who hired them. In the meantime, Fender put its new Stratocaster into the hands of the western swing and pop guitarists Leo intended it for—players such as Buddy Merrill (of Lawrence Welk’s band), Alvino Rey, Eddie Cletro, Charlie Aldrich, Al It is very much in the style of eastern “hillbilly” guitarists of the period such as “blue yodeler” Jimmy Rogers and the influential Riley Puckett, who played with Gid Tanner’s Skillet Lickers. 187k members in the Jazz community. "[52], In 1950, Hank Penny and Armand Gautier opened the Palomino in North Hollywood, "one of country music's most fabled venues, the commercial and social focal point of Hollywood's country set." When it escapes in all its musical glory, my friend, you have Western swing. In this infectious genre, twin fiddles, bouncing double bass, driving guitar solos, and singing lap steel are all married to a beat that’s designed for dancing. "Sleepy" Johnson were recorded by Victor Records at the Jefferson Hotel in Dallas, Texas under the name The Fort Worth Doughboys. This is a list of swing and Western swing musicians. That duo soon joined with another duo, vocalist Milton Brown and his younger brother Derwood Brown on guitar. Regular shows continued until 1958 with Johnnie Lee Wills as the bandleader. Brown’s rhythm section included brother Derwood on guitar and Ocie Stockard on tenor banjo. Recording companies came up with several names before World War II trying to market it—hillbilly, old-time music, novelty hot dance, hot string band, and even Texas swing for music coming out of Texas and Louisiana. Early players such as Jimmy Wyble, Charlie Aldrich, Jimmy Bryant, Roy Eldon Shamblin (April 24, 1916 – August 5, 1998) was an American guitarist and arranger, particularly important to the development of Western swing music as one of the first electric guitarists in a popular dance band. Wills himself was present for the first session and makes a few vocal contributions. "Here's the way I figure it," he said. Wills’ early recordings included some of this material as well, but not to the same extent as the Brownies. Herman Arnspiger continued to work with Wills up until the early 1940s, even after Eldon Shamblin [see below] was in the band. Prominent groups during the peak of Western swing's popularity included The Light Crust Doughboys, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies, Spade Cooley and His Orchestra and Hank Thompson And His Brazos Valley Boys. 1938 session rosters for Wills recordings show both "lead guitar" and "electric guitar" in addition to guitar and steel guitar. Now, it’s time to explore playing lead guitar in the Western-swing style. Western Swing Guitar: Series: Guitar Recorded Versions TAB: Composer: Fred Sokolow : Western Swing was born in the '30s and is still going strong! A 1941 Metronome Magazine article said of Shamblin, “[he] comes closer than any other white plectrist to getting the solidity and swing and steady flow of ideas of Charlie Christian.” Although these men were both from Oklahoma, it seems unlikely that Shamblin heard Christian play before Christian’s first landmark recordings with Goodman in 1939. Vocalist/guitarist Tag Lambert traveled and performed with Wills during these years and his style shows a strong influence of earlier Wills’ guitarists including Junior Barnard. [18][19][20] On the other hand, The Billboard, in its January 29, 1944 issue, reported Cooley came fourth in the orchestra section, behind Sammy Kaye, Freddie Martin, and Jimmy Dorsey. Early lead players, such as Shamblin and Junior Barnard, were close in sound and style to such early jazz and blues guitarists as Charlie Christian and T-Bone Walker. [50] Another source states Wills attracted 8,600 fans. At the height of his popularity, Wills’ calls of “Take it away, Leon” and “Ahh, come in Tommy, sing” made stars out of his band members who might have otherwise remained anonymous to the public. Hit recordings of “San Antonio Rose” by the Playboys and movie star Bing Crosby put the Wills band on the national map. These Western dances were a huge success. Lonnie McIntosh (July 18, 1941 – April 21, 2016), known as Lonnie Mack, was an American singer-guitarist.Mack was a pioneer of blues-rock music and rock guitar melodic soloing.Mack emerged in 1963 with the LP, The Wham of that Memphis Man. Cooley moved up from Phillips' County barn dances at Venice, Calif., ballroom, where he was featured for 74 weeks."[25]. An in depth video course on the guitarist who's blues, jazz, and swing stylings helped create the Western Swing guitar sound! These recordings featured the smaller “post-war band” and are available today in the multi-volume “Tiffany Transcriptions” series. Photographs of the Light Crust Doughboys taken as early as 1931 show two guitars along with fiddle player Wills. Both played on numerous 1945 recordings including the classic “Roly Poly.” The guitar solo on this Cindy Walker tune includes two guitar licks that have become Western swing clichés. Although Shamblin played solos on these early recording, he saw himself primarily as a rhythm guitarist. [34] Brower, a classically trained violinist, was the first to master Joe Venuti's double shuffle and his improvisational style was a major contribution to the genre. Shamblin recorded with the Super 400 guitar and kept a bass line running through the songs, often with a new chord every two beats. The syncopated Western swing guitar rhythm was not born until later. It was practically impossible to wedge your way into the Palace Barn where Red Murrell and his band were playing. The 1936 recording of “Bluin’ the Blues” features a guitar solo by Sleepy Johnson on the jazzy acoustic lead. [10] The electrically amplified stringed instruments, especially the steel guitar, give the music a distinctive sound. With chord melody solos to popular swing melodies, advanced rhythm guitar techniques, and acoustic jazz picking techniques. The tenor banjo may well have been the first instrument to play swing rhythm in Western swing. They are champion [45] Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen and the Strangers were also key players in this revitalization. The ethnic sounds of German, Czech, French, and Mexican Americans also were a great influence. Any Django fans in the room? Texas steel guitarist Tommy Morrell has produced a series of great instrumental recordings on his own label that feature great swing rhythm guitar. [11] Later incarnations have also included overtones of bebop. Although we cannot say he was the originator of the style, Texas Panhandle fiddler Bob Wills is the most well-known Western swing bandleader. The tempo would then increase to presto for the final choruses. Wills’ call of “Herbie, Tiny, Eldon” during harmonized solos helped establish solo careers for Herb Remington (steel) Tiny Moore (electric mandolin) and Eldon Shamblin. The greatest players throughout history could communicate their musical ideas to stunning effect. During its early development, scores of groups from San Antonio to Shreveport to Oklahoma City played different songs with the same basic sound. Rhythm guitar was not featured prominently in these first sessions. Both recordings feature acoustic rhythm guitar played in the open bass-chord style by Derwood Brown. Some listeners have objected to his nearly constant talking, introducing and “Ahh-Haa-ing” during instrumental solos. Johnson is shown with a small mahogany-topped Martin in photographs. By 1937 the jitterbug hit big in the West and allowed much greater freedom of movement. Regardless of genre, these pioneering players shared the ability to use the guitar as a channel for self expression. Michael Campbell. Doyle Brink and his Texas Swingsters out of Waco, Texas, also played on the road for almost 50 years. The guitarists on the Tiffany recordings were Lester “Junior” Barnard (1946 sessions) and Eldon Shamblin (1947 sessions). His classic recordings with Benny Goodman are still considered to be among the best jazz guitar solos ever played. The common denominator, early … Nashville session steel guitar ace Buddy Emmons recorded an excellent Wills tribute for Flying Fish in 1976. Western Swing was born in the '30s and is still going strong! In 1944, with the United States' continuing involvement in World War II, a 30 percent federal excise tax was levied against "dancing" nightclubs. Western swing style guitar suggests many different images. Shamblin’s first recorded guitar work with Wills was on the acoustic. Left and right hand muting and the use of barre chords (with few open strings) allowed guitarists to emulate the modern jazzy pulse. Download now w/ tab, jams, & more: https://truefire.com/c1146 Logsdon, Guy. Contemporary groups include Asleep at the Wheel and the Hot Club of Cowtown. Idk, does it matter that much? Many guitarists have made major contributions in the field, but the cornerstone remains Eldon Shamblin, whom Rolling Stone magazine once called the "World's Best Rhythm Guitarist". Haggard’s 1970 Capital recording A Tribute To The Best Damn Fiddler Ever: My Tribute To Bob Wills featured many former Texas Playboys including mandolinist Tiny Moore and Eldon Shamblin. Junior Barnard, born Lester Robert Barnard (December 17, 1920 – April 15, 1951) was an American Western swing guitarist who was a member of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys. Later recordings of “Roly Poly” generally include musical “quotes” from Wyble’s memorable solo. Western Swing Monthly,[65] based in Austin, is a newsletter for musicians and fans. During the desperate grimness of the Great Depression, he moved to Oklahoma City, where he played and sang on the radio.Eventually, he ended up in Tulsa, working with Dave Edwards’ Alabama Boys and at another radio station, where he arranged classical … Western swing music is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands. An estimated 1,800 persons attended a New Year's Eve Dance there in 1955. Western swing has certainly been an outlet for virtuosic expression on the guitar—like Karl Farr’s sophisticated, jazzy approach and Eldon Shamblin’s athletic single-note solos. "Western Swing: Working-Class Southwestern Jazz of the 1930s and 1940s". Johnson played fiddle, guitar, and tenor banjo. The record was released by Victor (23653), Blue Bird (5257), Montgomery Ward (4416 & 4757), and (Canadian) Sunrise (3340). page 176, 177. The winner would be named "the King of Swing". [1][2] It is dance music, often with an up-tempo beat,[3][4] which attracted huge crowds to dance halls and clubs in Texas, Oklahoma and California during the 1930s and 1940s until a federal war-time nightclub tax in 1944 contributed to the genre's decline.[5]. The tenor banjo may well have been the first instrument to play swing rhythm in Western swing. It wasn't done in the music's heyday of the 30's and 40's, but in 1973, in Nashville. All these styles can rightfully be called Western swing style guitar. Tommy Allsup, an excellent swing guitarist who continues to be involved with numerous swing related recording projects, was the producer. Western Swing was born in the '30s and is still going strong! Still others think of cowboy music, beginning with the Sons of the Pioneers and including modern groups such as Riders In The Sky. Eldon’s characteristic rhythm style is first heard clearly on the 1940-41 recordings of Wills’ classics such as “San Antonio Rose” and “Take Me Back to Tulsa.” Sometime later, he began playing electric and is pictured in 1941 playing a Gibson non-cutaway archtop electric (possibly an ES-150). This style was born in the late 1940's with the rise of Western Swing - a hybrid of western-themed songs with jazz rhythm and harmony. Some early photos of the Doughboys (see phot on this page) do not include the teenaged Durwood Brown, as he was an “unofficial” member of the band. When Spade Cooley unexpectedly received the most votes, besting Benny Goodman and Harry James, Jarvis declared Cooley to be the King of Western Swing. He was among the first electric guitarists to create a guitar effect that anticipated the fuzz tone. 81–88. Western swing has always been widely considered a sub-genre of country music, but I’ve never understood why it doesn’t get included in the jazz lineage. Fearing the dance floor would collapse, police stopped ticket sales at 11 p.m. An in depth video course into Roy's note choice, technique, and jazz influence that helped create Merle Haggard's classic sound! As quoted in author Tony Bacon’s 60 Years of Fender , longtime Fender salesman Dale Hyatt noted, “I think Jimi Hendrix caused more Stratocasters to be sold than all the Fender salesmen put together.” Lead Guitar Style of Roy Nichols. Tex Williams and his Western Caravan were playing there. ...It was nobody intended to start anything in the world. You may recognize the name Roy Smeck as much for his own prolific recordings as for the dozens of guitar instruction books he issued throughout the years. ...They wouldn't be a runaway...and just lay a real beat behind it an' the people would began to really like it. Swing rhythm features steady four-to-the-bar strums with chords typically changing every two beats. Bob Wills and others believed the term Western swing was used for his music while he and his band were still in Tulsa, Oklahoma between 1939 and 1942. (Guitar Recorded Versions). His influence on swing guitar was immense. It wasn't all out boogie woogie; it was 'swingier'—more smooth and subdued. The group, with Fred "Papa" Calhoun on piano, played dance halls and was heard on radio. [44], Western swing was extremely popular throughout the West in the years before World War II and blossomed on the West Coast during the war. A mile down the hill was the Riverside Rancho. Browse the top western swing artists to find new music. The band’s instrumentation and repertoire marked the origination of the music that would later become known as “Western swing.”. Some music historians feel Brown’s band would have eclipsed Wills’ in popularity if Brown had lived. This album featured many of the original Playboys including Shamblin. An added benefit is that while album liner notes may not identify the musicians, Bob always did! [28] Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers out of Terrell in East Texas, and the East Texas Serenaders in Lindale, Texas, both added jazz elements to traditional music in the later half of the 1920s through the early 1930s. The guitar in Western Swing holds a particularly important place. As the popularity of tangos faded, the tango banjo became the tenor banjo and was used in the late teens and 1920s dance orchestras to supply dance rhythm at a volume to compete with drums, horns, and other instruments. Guitar: Years active: 1930s–1990s: Associated acts: Bob Wills, Merle Haggard, The Strangers: Eldon Shamblin (April 24, 1916 – August 5, 1998) was an American guitarist and arranger, particularly important to the development of Western swing music as one of the first electric guitarists in a popular dance band. 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