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COUNTRY,
BLUEGRASS & OLD-TIMEY
Western Swing Collections
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Proper BOX 6 |
Doughboys, Playboys & Cowboys |
● CD $24.98 |
4 CD box set featuring a 99 track historical retrospective
of western swing from 1932 to 1947 including tracks by all the major
performers along with lots of lesser known artists - see below for detailed
listing. Comes with 44 page booklet with detailed notes, photos and full
discographical information.
SHELLY LEE ALLEY & HIS ALLEY CATS: Women Women Women/ JESSE ASHLOCK: Betty
Ann/ DOUG BINE & HIS DIXIE RAMBLERS: Rambler's Stomp/ BILL BOYD & COWBOY
RAMBLERS: Boyd's Blues/ BILL BOYD & HIS COUNTRY RAMBLERS: Barn Dance Rag/
DERWOOD BROWN & HIS MUSICAL BROWNIES: Bring It On Down To My House/ MILTON
BROWN & HIS MUSICAL BROWNIES: Brownie's Stomp/ Down By The O-h-i-o/ My
Galveston Gal/ Oh You Pretty Woman/ The Eyes Of Texas/ The Yellow Rose Of
Texas/ Who's Sorry Now/ BROWN'S MUSICAL BROWNIES: I'm Confessin' (that I
Love You)/ CLIFF BRUNER: That's What I Like About The South/ CLIF BRUNER &
HIS BOYS: San Antonio Rose/ CLIFF BRUNER & HIS BOYS: Draftboard Blues/ Truck
Driver's Blues/ CLIFF BRUNER'S TEXAS WANDERERS: Corrine Corrina/ Kangaroo
Blues/ One Sweet Letter From You/ CLAUDE CASEY & HIS PINE STATE PLAYBOYS:
Pine State Honky Tonk/ DON CHURCHILL & TEXAS MAVERICKS: One Year Ago
Tonight/ ZEKE CLEMENTS & HIS WESTERN SWING GANG: Oklahoma Blues/ SPADE
COOLEY & HIS ORCHESTRA: Forgive Me One More Time/ Oklahoma Stomp/ Shame On
You/ THE CRYSTAL SPRING RAMBLERS: Fort Worth Stomp/ TED DAFFAN'S TEXANS:
Blue Steel Blues/ AL DEXTER & HIS TROOPERS: Pistol Packin' Mama/ THE FORT
WORTH DOUGHBOYS: Nancy Jane/ Sunbonnet Sue/ PORKY FREEMAN: Boogie Woogie
Boy/ THE HI-FLYERS: Whatcha Gonna Do/ ADOLPH HOFNER & HIS TEXANS: Better
Quit It Now/ ADOLPH HOFNER & HIS SAN ANTONIANS: Cotton Eyed Joe/ ADOLPH
HOFNER & HIS TEXANS: I'll Keep My Old Guitar/ JERRY IRBY & HIS TEXAS
RANCHERS: Nails In My Coffin/ THE JEWEL COWBOYS: My Untrue Cowgirl/ BUDDY
JONES: Mean Old Lonesome Blues/ Rockin' Rollin' Mama/ Streamlined Mama/ The
Women ('bout To Make A Wreck Out Of Me)/ THE LIGHT CRUST DOUGHBOYS: Blue
Guitars/ Good Gracious Gracie/ Just Once Too Often/ Let's Make Believe We're
Sweethearts/ Mean Mean Mama (from Meana)/ Pussy Pussy Pussy/ LOUISE MASSEY &
HER WESTERNERS: Billy Boy/ THE MODERN MOUNTAINEERS: Dirty Dog Blues/ Loud
Mouth/ Mississippi Sandman/ PATSY MONTANA & PRAIRIE RAMBLERS: I Want To Be A
Cowboy's Sweetheart/ ROY NEWMAN & HIS BOYS: Sadie Green (the Vamp Of New
Orleans)/ THE NITE OWLS: Married Man Blues/ W. LEE O'DANIEL & HIS HILLBILLY
BOYS: Dirty Hangover Blues/ Lonesome Road Blues/ There'll Be Some Changes
Made/ HANK PENNY: Steel Guitar Stomp/ Wildcat Mama/ Cowboy's Swing/
Mississippi Muddle/ THE PORT ARTHUR JUBILEERS: Jones Stomp/ Pussywillow/ THE
RANGE RIDERS: Range Rider Stomp/ JIMMIE REVARD & HIS OKLAHOMA PLAYBOYS: Big
Daddy Blues/ Dirty Dog/ Lose Your Blues & Laugh At Life/ THE RICE BROTHERS
GANG: King Cotton Stomp/ BOB SKYLES & SKYROCKETS: Hot Tamale Pete/ THE SONS
OF THE PIONEERS: Hold That Critter Down/ THE SONS OF THE WEST: Sally'g Got A
Wooden Leg/ THE SUNSHINE BOYS: Gonna Get Tight/ What's The Matter With Deep
Elem/ HANK THOMPSON: Humpty Dumpty Heart/ THE TUNE WRANGLERS: Buster's
Crawdad Song/ Chicken Reel Stomp/ El Rancho Grande/ Red's Tight Like That/
Texas Sand/ JOHNNY TYLER & RIDERS OF THE RIO GRANDE: Oakie Boogie/ THE
WASHBOARD WONDERS: Feather Your Nest/ TEX WILLIAMS & HIS WESTERN CARAVAN: I
Got Texas In My Soul/ Smoke Smoke Smoke (that Cigarette)/ JOHNNIE LEE WILLS
& HIS BOYS: Square Dance Boogie/ BOB WILLS & TEXAS PLAYBOYS: Bob Wills
Special/ Lil Liza Jane/ Liza Pull Down The Shades/ Never No More Blues/ New
San Antonio Rose/ Osage Stomp/ Stay A Little Longer/ Too Busy/ Who Walks In
When I Walk Out/ LUKE WILLS' RHYTHM BUSTERS: Bob Wills Two Step/ SMOKEY WOOD
& THE WOOD CHIPS: Keep On Truckin'/ Moonlight In Oklahoma
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Krazy Kat 20 |
Nite Spot Blues - Hot Western Swing From The
Southwest |
● CD $16.98 |
28 rare and unissued sides cut between 1929 and 1941 by
groups from Texas, Oklahoma & Louisiana.Comes with 28
page booklet with extensive notes by western swing expert Kevin Coffey and
rare photos.
THE ALABAMA BOYS: Blues/ Frankie & Johnny/ Mama Don't Allow/ SHELLY LEE
ALLEY & HIS ALLEY CATS: I'm Still in Love with You/ Let Me Bring it to Your
Door/ THE BLUE RIDGE PLAYBOYS: Keep Your Nose Out of Daddy's Business/ Swing
Baby Swing/ BILL BOYD'S COWBOY RAMBLERS: Must I Hesitate (The Hesitation
Blues)/ BOB DUNN'S VAGABONDS: Mama's Gone Goodbye/ JIMMY HART & HIS
MERRYMAKERS: Cheatin' On Me/ ADOLPH HOFNER & HIS TEXANS: Come On And Swing
Me/ LEON'S LONE STAR COWBOYS: Ben Wheeler Stomp/ Goin' Up to Dallas/ THE
LIGHT CRUST DOUGHBOYS: Bugle Call Rag/ Sluefoot on the Levee/ Tea for Two/
DICKIE MCBRIDE AND THE VILLAGE BOYS: Tell Me Dear (Don't You Care)/ THE
MODERN MOUNTAINEERS: Never Slept Last Night/ LEW PRESTON & HIS MEN OF THE
RANGE: Soldier Boy Stomp/ ROSS RHYTHM RASCALS: Boojie Woo Blues/ There's
Gonna be No Me to Welcome You/ LEON "PAPPY" SELPH & HIS BLUE RIDGE PLAYBOYS:
Polecat Stomp/ OCIE STOCKARD & HIS WANDERERS: Jitterbug Katy/ THE TEXAS
WANDERERS: Jo Jo/ Waitin' at the End of the Road/ THE THREE VIRGINIANS: June
Tenth Blues/ THE UNIVERSAL COWBOYS: Nite Spot Blues/ THE WANDERERS:
Wanderer's Stomp
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Krazy Kat 21 |
Playboy Boogie |
● CD $16.98 |
Excellent 25 track collection of Western Swing, honky tonk
and country boogie from Dallas, Texas based Star Talent label recorded
between 1948 and 1951. Includes tracks by Buddy Walker, Boots & Buddies
(with lead vocals by a young Gene O'Quin), Hoyle Nix, Aline McManus & Jack
Padgett, The Seven Rowe Brothers, Buster Doss, Johnny Mathis, Stuffy Smith,
Riley Crabtree, Ray Rogers, Hank Harrell, Freddie Burns, Slim Willet (his
classic I'm A Tool Pusher From Snyder) and others. Includes 24 page
booklet with extensive notes by Griffith Osborne.
JOHNNY BEE: Hang-over Blues/ BOOTS & BUDDIES: Next Sunday Darling Is My
Birthday/ FREDDIE BURNS: Juke Box Boogie/ Two Piano Boogie/ SUNNY BURNS:
Agreed To Disagree/ THE BURNS BROTHERS: I Can Sleep Again At Night/ RILEY
CRABTREE: If My Tears Were Gold/ COWBOY DIXON: Everything's Gonna Be
Changed/ BUSTER DOSS: Graveyard Boogie/ Playboy Boogie/ HANK HARRAL: A Smile
Won't Hide A Broken Heart/ Dream Band Boogie/ Red Barn Boogie/ JOHNNY
MATHIS: Tell Me Why/ ALINE MCMANUS & JACK PADGETT: Television Boogie/ TEX
MELTON: It Won't Do Baby/ HOYLE NIX: I'm All Gone/ May You Never Break A
Heart Like You Broke Mine/ You're Throwing Life Away/ JACK PADGETT: Boogie
Woogie Gal/ RAY ROGERS: Mississippi Blues/ THE SEVEN ROWE BROTHERS: Polk
County Two Step/ WAYNE SINGLETON: Mistreated Blues/ SNUFFY SMITH: Let Your
Conscience Be Your Guide/ BUDDY WALKER: We've Lived A Lie/ WAYNE WALKER:
Who's Kiddin' Who/ SLIM WILLET: I'm A Tool Pusher From Snyder/ I'm Going
Strong
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President PLCD 563 |
Roots Of Rock 'n Roll, Vol. 7 - Stompin' At
The Honky Tonk |
● CD $15.98 |
26 tracks of hot western swing from the 30s and 40s
TEX ATCHISON: Somebody's Rose/ MILTON BROWN & HIS MUSICAL BROWNIES: If You
Can't Take Five Take Two/ CLIFF BRUNER & HIS BOYS: New Falling Rain Blues/
CLIFF BRUNER'S TEXAS WANDERERS: Sugar/ SPADE COOLEY & HIS ORCHESTRA:
Oklahoma Stomp/ Three Way Boogie/ JIMMIE DAVIS: Mama's Getting Hot, Papa's
Getting Cold/ BOB DUNN'S VAGABONDS: Stompin' At The Honky Tonk/ ADOLPH
HOFNER & HIS SAN ANTONIANS: South Texas Swing/ DICKIE MCBRIDE & THE VILLAGE
BOYS: Tulsa Twist/ THE MODERN MOUNTAINEERS: Who Calls You Sweet Mama Now/
Who's Cryin' Sweet Papa/ ROY NEWMAN & HIS BOYS: Sadie Green (The Vamp of New
Orleans)/ PORT ARTHUR JUBILEERS: Jones Stomp/ JIMMIE REVARD & HIS OKLAHOMA
PLAYBOYS: Daddy's Got The Deep Elm Blues/ THE RICE BROTHERS GANG: You Are My
Sunshine/ TEX RITTER & THE SONS OF THE PIONEERS: Ay Viva Tequila/ THE SADDLE
TRAMPS: Hot As I Am/ SONS OF THE PIONEERS: The Devil's Great Grandson/ THE
SWEET VIOLET BOYS: I Love My Fruit/ THE SWIFT JEWEL COWBOYS: You Gotta
Ho-De-Ho/ THE TEXAS WANDERERS: Rackin' It Back/ JIMMY WALKER: Detour/ LUKE
WILLS: Bring It Down To My House Honey/ BOB WILLS & THE TEXAS PLAYBOYS:
Cotton Eyed Joe/ SMOKEY WOOD & HIS WOOD CHIPS: Riding To Glory Now
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Westside WESF 111 |
Shuffle Town: Western Swing On King, 1946-50 |
● CD $21.98 |
24 tracks, essential
Westside continues their ambitious King
reissue series with this, the first of two projected volumes examining the
label's Western Swing recording activities from 1945-1950, which went far
beyond Hank Penny and Moon Mullican. This, including 12 previously unissued
performances, does much to correct that oversight. Syd Nathan recorded a
number of West Coast swing acts aided by Merle Travis, King's Hollywood
talent scout and West Coast A&R man in 1945-46. Travis signed a number of
artists, including his roommate, Bob Wills sideman-vocalist Jimmy Widener,
whose work dominates the set (eleven numbers). The excellent Wake Up Babe,
Don't Bother Me,, Hesitation Blues (not the Milton Brown
recording) I Hear You Knockin and Lindy Lou are all standouts
with stellar sidemen including swing fiddle master Buddy Ray (Widener's
brother-in-law), guitarist Jimmy Wyble and steel master Noel Boggs. Westside
also unearthed a previously unissued Wyble session. Long assumed to be the
label's first jazz session, it turns out to be an early example of whites
recording gutbucket R&B. Wyble's flawless playing and Buddy Ray's masterful
fiddling and blues singing alone make these four sides unique. Nathan
planned to release them on Queen, King's sister R&B label, before changing
his mind. His non-California swing acts included former Milton Brown sideman
Ocie Stockard's material retains the feel of prewar Texas swing acts. Also
featured are Oklahoman Billy Hughes's rare early recording of Cocaine
Blues, Atlanta-based Boots Woodall and bandleader Paul Howard, whose
selections feature Roddy Bristol's fiery, passionate fiddling. Packaging is
excellent, featuring exhaustively researched, detailed and well-written
notes by Kevin Coffey. (AK)
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Country Routes 25 |
Solid South - Western Swing On Los Angeles
Radio |
● CD $16.98 |
Great collection of western swing and honky tonk country
country drawn from a variety of different radio shows broadcast in the L.A.
area in the 50s. There are 8 tracks by Hank Penny from 1950 and '51 plus
Jimmy Wakely (a rare hot track by him on the title tune), Spade Cooley (from
his own radio show), The Prairie Ramblers, Merle Travis, Eddie Kirk, Les
"Carrot Top" Anderson, Wesley Tuttle, Noel Boggs (who gets his own track and
is featured with several of the other artists here), Skeets McDonald (a
great version of the blues standard Trouble In Mind), Merle Tarvis,
Tex Williams, Bob Wills and two previously unissued live sides by the great
Lefty Frizzell, probably from 1958. Lefty Does Mom And Dad's Waltz
with lovely fiddle from "Fiddlin' Kate" and Release Me. Sound quality
from these rare acetates is sometimes rough but it's all listenable. (FS)
LES ANDERSON: New Panhandle Rag/ NOEL BOGGS: Alabamy Bound/ SPADE COOLEY:
Bile That Cabbage Down/ Bubbling Over/ San Antonio Rose/ Steel Guitar Rag/
You've Got Me Wrapped Around Your Finger/ LEFTY FRIZZELL: Mom & Dad's Waltz/
Release Me/ EDDIE KIRK: Boogie On The Bayou/ SKEETS MCDONALD: Trouble In
Mind/ HANK PENNY: Big-footed Sam/ Farewell Blues/ Flamin' Mamie/ I'm Moving
On/ Ship Of Broken Dreams/ Steel Guitar Rag/ Tater Pie/ Taxes, Taxes/
Waiting Just For You/ Won't You Ride In My Little Red Wagon/ THE PRAIRIE
RAMBLERS: Honey Be My Honey Bee/ MERLE TRAVIS: Kentucky/ Memphis Blues/
WESLEY TUTTLE: I Wonder Where You Are Tonight/ JIMMY WAKELY: Solid South/
TEX WILLIAMS: Ugly Duck/ BOB WILLS: Summit Ridge Drive
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Country Routes 22 |
Sunshine State Swing, 1944-49 |
● CD $16.98 |
Fine collection of western swing broadcast over Los Angeles
radio stations in the mid-late 40s. Among the artists featured are Spade
Cooley & His Roundup Gang, T. Texas Tyler, Freddy Tavres, Hank Penny, Merle
Travis, Jack Rivers & His Saddle Pals, Tex Williams & His Western Caravan,
Harold Hensley, Red Rowe and others. Sidemen include the cream of West Coast
musicians like Jimmy Wyble, Noel Boggs, Porky Freeman, Speedy West, Merle
Travis, Joaquin Murphy and others. Sound quality on some of these rare
transcriptions is pretty rough but there's some fine and historically
valuable music here.
RUE BARCLAY: Guitar Boogie/ JOHNNY BOND: Gals Don't Mean A Thing/ Tomorrow
Never Comes/ SPADE COOLEY: Devil's Dream/ Fireball Mail/ Flying Home/ It's
Dark Outside/ One Sweet Letter From You/ Riverside Drive/ Shame On You/
South/ Steel Guitar Rag/ You Don't Love Me But I'll Always Care/ PORKY
FREEMAN: The Grass Looks Greener Over Yonder/ HAROLD HENSLEY: Texas Set-up/
LES PAUL: Midnight Special/ HANK PENNY: Still Water Runs The Deepest/ We Met
Too Late/ JACK RIVERS: Little Rock Getaway/ RED ROWE: Be Honest With Me/ THE
SUNSHINE BOYS: Noah/ FREDDIE TRAVARES: Coquette/ MERLE TRAVIS: John Henry/
T. TEXAS TYLER: Between Memphis & New Orleans/ My Bucket's Got A Hole In It/
Remember Me/ TEX WILLIAMS: Don't Telephone Don't Telegraph
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Krazy Kat 15 |
Swinging West - 1940s Western Swing From
Southern California |
● CD $16.98 |
27 tracks drawn from various small labels.
CAROLINA COTTON (MUSIC BY THE BROOME BROS): You've Got Me Wrapped Around
Your Finger/ ZEKE CLEMENTS: It's My Life/ Oklahoma Blues/ RODY ERIKSON:
Don't Get Around Much Anymore/ Saturday Dance/ BOOTS FAYE ACC. BY THE SUN
VALLEY COWBOYS: You're Writing Love Letters To Me/ PAUL HOWARD: I've Been
Lonesome Since You Went Away/ LEODIE JACKSON: Steeling The Blues/ BRAD KING:
You Ain't Got My Number Anymore/ RED MURRELL: Get That Chip Off Your
Shoulder/ Wake Up Babe/ COWBOY SAM NICHOLS: I'm Tellin' You/ DOYE O'DELL:
Lookin' Poor But Feelin' Rich/ JACK RIVERS: Sargent's Stomp/ RED ROWE:
Pretty Little Mona/ Shaggy Dog Blues/ TOMMY SARGENT'S RANGE BOYS: Idaho
Call/ Steel Guitar Boogie/ WALT SHRUM: You Two-timed Me One Time Too Often/
RUDY SOOTER: Easy Payment Blues/ DUSTY TAYLOR: Ranger Boogie/ RAY WADE: I
Don't Care Anymore/ JIMMY WAKELY: If You Don't Go Right, Don't Go Wrong/
JIMMY WALKER: Hide Your Face/ Tear Stains On My Letter/ PAUL WESTMORELAND:
From Now On/ TEX WILLIAMS: Tell Me Why
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Krazy Kat 27 |
Swinging West, Vol. 2 |
● CD $16.98 |
Complementing Krazy Kat 15 this is another fine collection
of Western Swing from California recorded in the mid/late 40s - mostly for
small local labels. Decent sound and
informative notes by Al Turner.
DON CHURCHILL: Texas Plains/ Yesterday/ RUFE DAVIS: Lula From Missoula/ DOC
DENNING: After I've Spent/ RED EGNER: Brown Eyed Baby/ TERRY FELL: Stop Your
Flirting/ PORKY FREEMAN: Electric Guitar Blues/ BILLY HUGHES: Beside The
Alamo/ LEODIE JACKSON: Double Crossin' Mama/ MERL LINDSAY: Water Baby Blues/
CHARLIE LINVILLE: Texahoma Boogie/ Yes You Did/ MASTON'S MUSIC MAKERS: Slick
Chick Boogie/ RED MURRELL: Little Darlin'/ Steel Guitar Rag/ SLUMBER
NICHOLS: I Want To Be There/ THE PLAINSMEN: I Learned To Love You/ New San
Antonio Rose/ SMOKEY ROGERS: Blues On My Mind/ Shame On You/ THE SADDLE
TRAMPS: Make Up Your Mind/ DEUCE SPRIGGENS: I Been Down In Texas/
Peekin'-peekin'-peekin'/ What's The Matter/ DOUGLAS VENABLE: You Bought
Sorrow/ JIMMY WAKELY: I've Got Nuggets
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Krazy Kat 11 |
Wanderers Swing - Texas Dance Hall Music |
● CD $16.98 |
27 tracks, good
This off the wall collection of obscure Texas
Western swing from the 40's and 50's delves into the music's more obscure
corners. Without question, this is an inconsistent set. The best
performances are outstanding, particularly the title tune, recorded by Rip
Ramsey and his Texas Wanderers in 1948. Among the other fiery swing numbers
are Grouchy and the Texas Pioneers' 1953 version of the fiddle tune
Beaumont Rag. The blues numbers likewise account for fine moments. The
Lone Star Playboys' Banjo Boogie manages the difficult task of making
a four string banjo sound bluesy. Another high point is Texas Bill
Strength's 1950 recording of Black Coffee Blues. Other welcome
inclusions are pioneering swing fiddler Shelley Lee Alley's 1945 Low Down
Blues and Jerry Irby's 1951 Trouble in Mind. Most songs are
medium tempo honky tonkers like the Miller Brothers' Shadows on My
Memories and Jimmie Revard's Holdin' The Sack, a 1940's
performance that hearkens back to Revard's 1930's version. The weaker tracks
bog things down, and Tommy Elliott and the Line Riders' Sold Out Doc
is more hillbilly (and mediocre at that) than swing. One interesting
inclusion was the first-ever 1950 recording of Release Me, by Eddie
Miller and his Oklahomans, important historically but not musically. Though
the premise of programming it as if it were an actual dance is pretty lame,
there's enough good music here to make it worthwhile. (RK)
DUB ADAMS: Income Tax/ SHELLY LEE ALLEY: Low Down Blues/ SHORTY BATES:
You're There/ BILLY BRIGGS: Panhandle Shuffle/ ELMER CHRISTIAN: A Rainy
Sunday Night/ TINY COLBERT: Holes In My Soles/ I Wish You Felt The Way I Do/
TOMMY ELLIOT: Sold Out Doc/ SONNY HALL: Better Make Up Your Mind/ JERRY
IRBY: Trouble In Mind/ JESSE JAMES: Darling I Don't Understand/ TROY JORDAN:
Don't Cry On My Shoulder/ THE LONE STAR PLAYBOYS: Banjo Boogie/ KEITH LOYD:
My Western Union Baby/ BUSTER MARTIN'S BRONCO BUSTERS: Herbie's Steel Guitar
Polka/ DON MCCORD: Can't Live Without You/ THE MELODY MASTERS: Dessau Waltz/
EDDIE MILLER: Don't Break My Heart Anymore/ Release Me/ THE MILLER BROS:
Shadows On My Memories/ HOYLE NIX: Choose The One You Want/ RIP RAMSEY:
Wanderers Swing/ JIMMIE REVARD: Grouchy Beaumont Rag/ Holdin' The Sack/
TEXAS BILL STRENGTHY BILL: Black Coffee/ THE TEXAS TOPHANDS: You Can't Have
Your Cake And Eat It/ HOWARD WUSTERHAUSEN: When You Are Near
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ASV CDAJA 5214 |
Western Swing |
● CD $11.98 |
27 track collection covering 1935-1947.
BILL BOYD & HIS COWBOY RAMBLERS: Jig/ Mill Blues/ MILTON BROWN & HIS
BROWNIES: Chinatown, My Chinatown/ Yes Suh!/ CLIFF BRUNER & HIS TEXAS
WANDERERS: I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate/ When You're Smiling/
SPADE COOLEY: Oklahoma Stomp/ THE CRYSTAL SPRINGS RAMBLERS: Fort Worth
Stomp/ THE HI-FLYERS: Hi-flyer Stomp/ THE LIGHT CRUST DOUGHBOYS: Blue
Guitars/ Knocky Knocky/ Mama Won't Let Me/ DICKIE MCBRIDE & THE VILLAGE
BOYS: Tulsa Twist/ THE MODERN MOUNTAINEERS: Everybody's Truckin'/ THE PORT
ARTHUR JUBILEERS: Jeep's Blues/ Jones Stomp/ THE SONS OF THE WEST: Panhandle
Shuffle/ OCIE STOCKARD & HIS WANDERERS: Bass Man Jive/ THE SWIFT JEWEL
COWBOYS: Bug Scuffle/ THE TEXAS WANDERERS: Rackin' It Back/ Sundown Blues/
THE WANDERERS: Tiger Rag/ TEX WILLIAMS & HIS WESTERN CARAVAN: Artistry In
Western Swing/ BOB WILLS & HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS: Brain Cloudy Blues/ Too Busy/
Twin Guitar Special/ White Heat
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Fremeaux & Associates 032 |
Western Swing- Texas 1928-44 |
● CD $24.98 |
2 CDs. 36 tracks, 99 min, recommended.
Excellent survey of
the exciting music that emerged from Texas in the 30s, combining fiddle
bands, big band jazz, blues, and pop. Most tracks are new to CD, although
not that rare on LP. The big names are here, like Bob Wills, Milton Brown,
Spade Cooley, and the Light Crust Doughboys, along with gems from lesser
lights like Jimmy Revard, Cliff Bruner, Bill Boyd, Hank Penny, Ted Daffan,
Emmett Miller (Lovesick Blues, of course), the Hi-Flyers, Sons of the
West, Adolph Hofner, the Tune Wranglers, a.o. Sound is clean, if a mite
thin, with some surface noise, but acceptable. And the joyousness of the
music comes through loud and clear, on such cuts as the Hi-Flyers Juke
Box Jump, Bruner's Truck Driver's Blues, or Everybody's
Truckin', by the Modern Mountaineers, with stompin' good fun for all. (JM)
SHELLY LEE ALLEY & HIS ALLEY CATS: Try It Once Again/ BILL BOYD AND HIS
COWBOY RAMBLERS: Boyd's Blues/ Show Me The Way To Go Home/ MILTON BROWN AND
HIS MUSICAL BROWNIES: I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You/ Talking
About You/ MILTON BROWN'S MUSICAL BROWNIES: Louise Louise Blues/ CLIFF
BRUNER & HIS BOYS: Truck Driver's Blues/ CLIFF BRUNER'S TEXAS WANDERERS:
Draft Board Blues/ Milk Cow Blues/ SPADE COOLEY: Shame On You/ THE CRYSTAL
SPRING RAMBLERS: Fort Worth Stomp/ TED DAFFAN'S TEXANS: Blue Steel Blues/
THE HI-FLYERS: Juke Box Jump/ Whatcha Gonna Do/ ADOLPH HOFNER & HIS TEXANS:
Brown Eyed Sweet/ BUDDY JONES: Settle Down Blues/ THE LIGHT CRUST DOUGHBOYS:
Blue Guitars/ Just Once Too Often/ Pussy Pussy Pussy/ EMMETT MILLER & HIS
GEORGIA CRACKERS: Lovesick Blues/ THE MODERN MOUNTAINEERS: Everybody's
Truckin'/ Pipeliner's Blues/ W.LEE O'DANIEL AND HIS HILLBILLY BOYS: Dirty
Hangover Blues/ Lonesome Road Blues/ HANK PENNY & HIS RADIO COWBOYS: Chill
Tonic/ JIMMIE REVARD & HIS OKLAHOMA PLAYBOYS: Blues In The Bottle/ Oh! Swing
It/ Ride 'Em Cowboy/ SONS OF THE WEST: Panhandle Shuffle/ Sally's Got A
Wooden Leg/ THE TUNE WRANGLERS: Buster's Crawdad Song/ El Rancho Grande/
Red's Tight Like That/ BOB WILLS & HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS: Little Liza Jane/
Twin Guitar Special/ Who Walks In When I Walk Out?
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