TEXAS. MY YEARS WITH BOB WILLS. SIGNED BY AL STRICKLIN 1980 HARDBACK DUST JACKET

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TEXAS. MY YEARS WITH BOB WILLS. SIGNED BY AL STRICKLIN 1980 HARDBACK DUST JACKET:
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MY YEARS WITH BOB WILLS. SIGNED BY AL STRICKLIN 1980 SECOND EDITION HARDBACK DUST JACKET
BOB WILLS AND HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS WERE INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME IN 1999.Inducted members: Bob Wills, Tommy Duncan, Leon McAuliffe, Johnny Gimble, Joe \"Jody\" Holley, Tiny Moore, Herb Remington, Eldon Shamblin, and Al Stricklin.. AL WAS HIS PIANO PLAYER.
STRICKLIN, ALTON MEEKS (1908–1986). Alton Meeks Stricklin, jazz pianist, the son of Zebedee Meeks and Annie (Benton) Stricklin, was born in Antioch, Texas, on January 29, 1908. He began playing piano at age four but never \"had a paid lesson.\" The principal musical influence in his formative years was jazz. He claimed, \"I never heard anything like country music. Jazz was all I ever tried to play.\" The greatest impact on Al Stricklin\'s career was the noted jazz pianist, Earl \"Fatha\" Hines.
Stricklin\'s background in jazz made him ideal for the Bob Wills band because Wills played music for dancing, and the jazz idioms Stricklin learned were basic to dance music and dance bands. The \"first commercial group\" Stricklin played with was called the Rio Grande Serenaders. It was a standard Dixieland band with trumpet, trombone, clarinet, drums, banjo, and Al playing piano. During a trip to Fort Worth in August of 1935, Wills visited the Cinderella Roof, where Stricklin was performing with the Hi-Flyers, and offered Stricklin a job. Later that month Stricklin wrote Wills, and Wills wrote back with an offer of thirty dollars a week. FROM THE TEXAS STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
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