Southwestern Steel Guitar Association

01/25/2023

The world of Texas Swing and Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys under the direction of Jason Roberts has lost one of its biggest supporters, and one of its most prolific chroniclers. Author of "San Antonio Rose - The Life and Music of Bob Wills", Dr. Charles 'Bud' Townsend was a walking encyclopedia of musical history, a journalist who was as much a fan as he was a scholar.

Go rest high on that mountain, old friend. Like the Rose of San Antone, your voice and your work will never fade.
.. A classic memory from Turkey, Texas in 2022: LR with Dr. Townsend (seated) along with and of Wills’ Texas Playboys under the direction of Jason Roberts.

Lee Roy Parnell
Gibson
Fender

01/25/2023

https://www.tchof.com/post/dr-charles-bud-townsend

05/18/2020

Greetings,
The SWSGA Jam scheduled for this month has been moved to June 13th. due to the virus restrictions and of course for the safety of our members. Stay healthy!!!!

03/18/2020

Greetings,

The SWSGA Spring Jam has been rescheduled for May 23rd.

01/09/2020

The 2020 show starts tomorrow. Lots of great players and vendors. Channel 10 is scheduled to stop by tomorrow to help us promote the show. A big thank you to them for their help. Be sure to tune in to channel 10 in the morning.

05/06/2016

A group photo from the 2016 SWSGA Chula Vista Jam. Thanks to everyone for attending. It was a great time!!

04/15/2016

There is a steel guitar cruise scheduled for Feb. 2nd., 2017 with a line up of great players. For more information, check out the following website, http://steelguitarcruise.com

04/13/2016

As a reminder, the Chula Vista Jam is April 30th. & May 1st. at the Chula Vista RV resort. More information is available on the SWSGA website. http://www.swsteelguitar.com

... to the website for the Southwestern Steel Guitar Association (SWSGA), a site dedicated not only to its membership and events, but also to the promotion of the steel guitar. Although we are based in the greater Phoenix, Arizona area, our members live throughout the Southwestern United States and…

04/13/2016

02/14/2015

Jam session February 21st at the Sheraton Crescent Hotel in Phoenix...starts at 9:00am...come and bring your steel

01/08/2015

Be sure to stop by and see www.steelseat.com lots of seats and some new items too - effects to test Tube effects and Reverb both to test - Seat-Amp too

Convenient access to tools while playing with the Sidekar option. Plenty of storage space for picks, bars in bar holder (when specified) and strings.