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James Robert (Bob) Wills (March 6, 1905 ? May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by many music authorities one of the fathers of Western swing[1][2] and called by his fans the "King of Western Swing." He was born near Kosse, Texas to Emma Lee Foley and John Tompkins Wills.[3] His father was a fiddle player who along with his grandfather, taught the young Wills to play the fiddle and the mandolin. Wills spent his youth picking cotton and listening to adults sing their way through the day. "I don't know whether they made them up as they moved down the cotton rows or not," Wills once told Charles Townsend, author of San Antonio Rose: The Life and Times of Bob Wills, "but they sang blues you never heard before."[4]