Light Crust Doughboys

In 1931, a man who would become a Texas music legend named Bob Wills brought a band soon-to-be-called The Light Crust Doughboys to the Burrus Mill Flour Company. It was the beginning of the great American Jazz age, and the glorious time of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and Gene Krupa. Bob Wills and his band, The Light Crust Doughboys, introduced the music genre of Texas Western Swing. Though most of the other great “big bands” disappeared along with the flour company, The Light Crust Doughboys are still performing, recording and “On The Air.” Some of the premier country and western musicians in the world have filled the ranks of the Doughboys, and hundreds of musicians claim to have played with the band when it came through their towns. All current Light Crust Doughboys have stellar solo careers of their own, so a genuine Light Crust Doughboys stage show takes place when “four or more members come together” for “The Light Crust Doughboys In Concert”. But over the course of a season or a year, fans can catch all Light Crust Doughboys’ members at various shows at various times.