Fiddler Of Choice: Remembering Western Swing Giant Johnny Gimble

Fiddler Of Choice: Remembering Western Swing Giant Johnny Gimble

Johnny Gimble was the much respected country music fiddle player who was a key figure in western swing as a member of Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys and elsewhere. As a measure of his achievements, he received a posthumous induction in March 2018 into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Gimble won five CMA Awards and two Grammys in a long and distinguished career that had a recording span of some 62 years. Born in Tyler, Texas on May 30, 1926, he played …