Luke Wills

b. Luther J. Wills, 10 September 1920, on a farm near Memphis, Hall County, Texas, USA, d. 21 October 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Younger brother of Bob Wills and the seventh of the Wills family's children. He was rated so differently from the rest of the family that it became a family joke that his mother had picked up the wrong baby, after one of the many social dances held in the area. He learned to play stand-up bass as a child and made his musical debut in 1939 in the second Wills band, led by elder brother Johnnie Lee Wills, called the Rhythmaires. He appeared in B-mov...