Panhandle legend, Frankie McWhorter, is a fiddler from Lipscomb, Texas.  Frankie’s been a fiddle player for just about as long as he’s been a cowboy.  He grew up around Memphis and started his musical career in the early 1950s with the Miller Brothers, a popular western-swing band sponsored by a Wichita Falls furniture store.  After the Miller Brothers, Frankie caught on with Bob Wills and then drifted back home to Memphis, where he went back to breaking horses and working in a gas station.
In 1986, McWhorter was inducted into the Nebraska Country Music Foundation Hall of Fame, and in 1987 was inducted into the Western Swing Society Hall of Fame.
Lanny Fiel and Frankie McWhorter have released two documentary recordings entitled The Ranch Dance Fiddle: Frankie McWhorter and Texas Sandman: Frankie McWhorter.  The recordings are sponsored by the Ranching Heritage Association in conjunction with the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University.

Click on photo for more Information and to listen to sound samples.	"Here is some of the best western-swing dance music you'll ever hear played by one of the best fiddlers in Texas, or anywhere else for that matter." -Cowboy Magazine
Click on photo for more Information and to listen to sound samples.	"McWhorter is such a master of his instrument that he makes it sound so much easier and simple than it is." -Cowboy Magazine

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