Series: Jazz
Date: Friday, January 23
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Venue: Conference Center

Ticket Prices:
$15 General Admission
$10 Non-UTD Students
$10 UTD Alumni
$5 Children under 18
$5 to UTD Faculty/Staff/Retirees
Free to UTD Students with UTD Photo ID at the venue box office the night of the event.

Tom “Wolf” Morrell is an "almost-lovable eccentric genius" of western swing who has left his paw print, on music history. He is much more than a peerless musician, he is a musical entity who has absorbed virtually every aspect, of twentieth-century popular music and assimilated them into his own singular style of musicianship. To describe him as merely an incredible player would fall short of doing him justice. For, although he is an incredible player of the guitar, dobro, and steel guitar, it's his overall approach to making music that exemplifies his wizardry.

Wolf knows his music. He knows it because he has lived it and loved it. Ever since he was a pup in Texas he has immersed himself, with rare passion, in an ocean of music. He was in California in the fifties during which time some of the great Western Swing bands were still going strong. He toured with Tex Williams. He toured with Wade Ray. And with the Starlighters - and with the Texas Playboys and with Ray Price. He never toured with Kitty Wells. He was a member of The Sons of the Nuclear Waste.

He knew Elvis - and Jack Ruby.
He has been known to howl in hotel rooms - alone- at 4 AM.
He's carried his guitar on an airplane in a tow sack.
He wrote "The Ballad of Rip the Dog."
He founded the Time Warp Top Hands and in so doing gave Western Swing a new lease on life.

Website: http://www.westernswing.net/morrell/

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Pfhoolockah:

As Time Goes By:

Steel Guitar Rag: