Robert Lee "Bob" Dunn was a jazz trombonist and a pioneer Western swing

Western swing

Western swing music is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands...

 steel guitarist.

He is noted as the first musician to record an electrically amplified instrument—January, 1935, with Milton Brown

Milton Brown

Milton Brown was an American band leader and vocalist who co-founded the genre of Western swing. His band was the first to fuse hillbilly hokum, jazz, and pop together into a unique, distinctly American hybrid, thus giving him the nickname, "Father of Western Swing"...

 and His Musical Brownies.

Dunn also played steel guitar in numerous other Western Swing groups including those of Cliff Bruner

Cliff Bruner

Cliff Bruner was a fiddler and bandleader of the western swing era of the 1930s. Bruner's music combined elements of traditional string band music, improvisation, blues, folk, and popular melodies of the times....

 and one of Moon Mullican

Moon Mullican

Aubrey Wilson Mullican , known as Moon Mullican, was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and pianist. However, he also sang and played jazz, rock 'n' roll and the blues...

's earlier bands. Bob Dunn also had his own group, The Vagabonds, and this group featured Moon Mullican and Cliff Bruner as well.

Dunn was elected to the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1992.

External links

• DUNN, ROBERT LEE (1908-1971)—Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture.
• Dunn, Robert Lee (Bob)—Handbook of Texas Online.