ABSTRACT
“Everything that happened to me after Bob Wills was because of Bob Wills,” James Otis Wyble declared. “As I child, I loved music, and I became influenced by people like Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian, but [in the Texas Playboys] it was also sort of a party and an emotional high. When Bob hit the bandstand, we knew it was business. His words were ‘Get it!’ That meant play your heart out. And that's the most important thing and the most rewarding thing about being a musician.”
