Saturday, December 28, 2019

Musical Interlude: Bob Wills is Still The King (2005)

They might've decided that Elvis Presley was the King of Rock & Roll. Michael Jackson was christened the King of Pop.

In Texas, however, country music fans have their King. Country swing music icon Bob Wills was immortalized by fellow Texan Waylon Jennings several years back. In 2005, on tour, the Rolling Stones saw fit to pay tribute to Wills and Jennings, with Mick Jagger strapping on a guitar to do "Bob Wills is Still The King".



Add to this Ronnie Wood on pedal steel guitar, and you wonder if the Stones, slowly closing in on their 60th anniversary, might follow the lead of Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler and do a full-on country record.

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