Jesse Ashlock

Jesse Ashlock was born in 1915. He started playing violin at age nine. In 1930 he began going to the Crystal Springs Dance Pavilion in Fort Worth, where James Robert (Bob) Wills played with his band. Wills bought Jesse a fiddle, taught him to play, and included him in a few of the band's performances at Crystal Springs. In 1932 Ashlock joined Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies. Brown was Wills's chief competition in Western Swing. In 1935 Ashlock joined Bob Wills's Original Texas Playboys as a