Afrobeat, jazz, and funk artist Femi Kuti plays SLO Brew Rock this week, bringing with him an amazing international résumé. The saxophonist, singer, trumpet player,.
Growing up in rural Texas, he was called Jim Rob, Jim Bob and finally just Bob, but James Robert Wills will always be celebrated as the “King of Western Swing.”
From the May/June 2019 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY ADAM PERLMUTTER For a brief moment, I didn’t understand what all the fuss was about. “Tiger Rag,” as performed by the pioneering Western swing act the Light Crust Doughboys, is known for its raging tempo, but it didn’t seem all that forbidding. That’s when I realized that I was playing…