Cape Girardeau is an outpost in the world of Western swing music, far removed from the genre's base in the Southwestern United States. Yet this weekend hundreds have made the trek here from their ...

Although Southeast Missouri is better known for bluegrass and country, the Western swing music showcased this weekend at the Cape Girardeau Eagles Club is drawing fans of the genre from as far away as ...

Multi-generational Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel turned 55 this year. The band celebrated with the release of their new album “Riding High in Texas” Friday. The collection features 10 songs ...

MENOMONIE — Asleep at the Wheel frontman Ray Benson remembers back in the late 1960s when his band started to take shape. “Me and my pals I grew up with — we were searching around and realized that we ...

Western swing is a music genre that doesn’t account for millions of record sales, yet its contribution to the canon of Americana can’t be denied. It is celebrated by diehard fans and pockets of bands ...

MIDLAND, Texas — On Thursday night, people can watch a screening of the documentary, "The Bird And History Of Western Swing" in Midland. It's about how Western Swing got its start in Texas and gained ...

Three women — modern, creative, and talented — are stretching the boundaries of old-time country and western swing music. The best part? They are doing it steadfastly, free of frivolous fanfare. We’re ...

If you hear ghostly shouts of Bob Wills’ signature cry “Ah haaaa!” this weekend, don’t be surprised. The fifth annual Cowtown Birthplace of Western Swing Festival will call downbeat at noon Nov. 6, ...

Saddle up for a weekend of cowboy culture on The Bowery in Downtown Winnsboro Lasso up all your friends for this quick 2-hour road trip from DFW Winnsboro Center for the Arts is excited to announce ...

If you're not from Texas and you imagine what it's like, this is the Texas you think of: horses, cattle, rolling grassland that finally meets an endless blue sky at the far horizon. In Goree, Texas -- ...