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| | Take Me Back to Tulsa | | | Music Artist : | | Bob Wills | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Proper Box UK | | Release Date : | | 2001-12-03 | | Store Price : | | $25.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $25.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Nancy Jane - Fort Worth Doughboys
2. Sunbonnet Sue - Fort Worth Doughboys
3. Osage Stomp
4. Get With It
5. Spanish Two Step
6. Maiden's Prayer
7. I Ain't Got Nobody
8. Who Walks in When I Walk Out
9. Oklahoma Rag
10. Smith's Reel
11. Weary of the Same Ol' Stuff
12. No Matter How She Done It
13. Bluin' the Blues
14. Red Hot Gal of Mine
15. Steel Guitar Rag
16. What's the Matter With the Mill?
17. Sugar Blues
18. Basin Street Blues
19. Too Busy
20. Fan It
21. There's No Disappointment in Heaven
22. Swing Blues No. 1
23. Playboy Stomp
24. T for Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1)
25. Never No More Hard Times Blues
26. Oozlin' Daddy Blues
Disc 21. Black Rider
2. Pray for the Lights to Go Out
3. San Antonio Rose
4. Carolina in the Morning
5. Silver Bells (That Ring in the Night)
6. Beaumont Rag
7. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
8. Whoa Baby
9. I Wonder If You Feel the Way I Do
10. My Window Faces the South
11. That's What I Like About the South
12. Waltz You Saved for Me
13. Prosperity Special
14. Don't Let the Deal Go Down
15. You're Okay
16. Lone Star Rag
17. Corrine, Corrina
18. Bob Wills Special
19. Time Changes Everything
20. Big Beaver
21. New San Antonio Rose
22. I Knew the Moment I Lost You
23. Twin Guitar Special
24. Take Me Back to Tulsa
25. Takin' It Home
26. Please Don't Leave Me
27. Cherokee Maiden
28. Dusty Skies
29. My Life's Been a Pleasure
Disc 31. We Might as Well Forget It
2. Home in San Antone
3. Liberty
4. Miss Molly
5. You're from Texas
6. Goodbye Liza Jane
7. My Confession
8. Texas Playboy Rag
9. Roly Poly
10. Stay a Little Longer
11. Just a Plain Old Country Boy
12. New Spanish Two-Step
13. I'm Feelin' Bad
14. Cotton Eyed Joe
15. Brain Cloudy Blues
16. Bob Wills Boogie
17. Fat Boy Rag
18. Good Man Is Hard to Find
19. Little Bit of Boogie
20. Along the Navajo Trail
21. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
22. Betcha My Heart
23. Chinatown
24. Dinah
25. Frankie Jean
26. Hawaiian War Chant
Disc 41. I'm a Ding Dong Daddy
2. Milk Cow Blues
3. My Gal Sal
4. Red River Valley
5. Sugar Moon
6. Sweet Jennie Lee
7. Girl I Left Behind Me
8. At the Woodchopper's Ball
9. Blues for Dixie
10. Bubbles in My Beer
11. Can't Get Enough of Texas
12. Cotton Patch Blues
13. Cowboy Stomp
14. Crazy Rhythm
15. Deep Water
16. Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age
17. Keeper of My Heart
18. Little Cowboy Lament
19. Thorn in My Heart
20. Ida Red Likes to Boogie
21. Boot Heel Drag
22. Faded Love
23. I Laugh When I Think How I Cried Over You
24. I'll Be Lucky Someday
25. I Didn't Realise
26. Rock-A-Bye Baby Blues
27. Jolie Blon Likes the Boogie
28. End of the Line
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 SIMPLY GREAT!! BEST OF THE BUNCH, FOR THE MONEY!!
Submitted on: 2009-08-23 |
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For the amount of joy, foot tapping, head swinging, and bobbing I get from this set, I think I'd be tempted to pay four times as much, for this fabulous country-swing! Thank goodness, mostly "junk" dominates the airwaves these days, otherwise something this good would probably command even more from the record companies!
Don't misunderstand me, I'm not some highly opinionated fellow who grew up listening to this type of music in the '30s and '40s. "Led Zeppelin" were popular when I was a kid!
But, being a musician myself, I found out about Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys through "Guitar Player" magazine, or one of the other guitar magazines, citing Bob's music as being very important, and highly innovative, with regards to electric guitar playing.
So, I bought "The Essential Bob Wills 1935-1947", which is very good, but this is even better! And even better yet,(much to my pleasant surprise), was that not only is there plenty of superb electric steel, and electric six-string guitar work, but all this great guitar playing just happens to be surrounded by great music, as well!
Joyous, swinging, energetic, fun! I can't help but imagine that it must have been amazing to play in that band! The spirit! The pace! The wit! The unabashed energy!
Even though there are two very expensive box sets (one close to, and one above $400!) with tons of material, a great book, and DVD, I'll certainly settle for this, for now, unless the price of those two goes down!
I listened to most of the samples from both of those (high priced) sets, and I couldn't help but notice that the higher sound quality versions were, in fact, "different" versions, probably recorded some years later. That's not to say they weren't good- they were, in fact, great! Just "different". And the songs that were obviously the exact same ones taken from the exact same takes,(that are also on this set), don't seem to sound much, if any, better on the high-priced sets. Perhaps "slightly" better in some cases, but that's it! But, if you have the money, there are plenty of other great songs on both of those sets. I liked a lot of the stuff that was probably from the early '50s on "Faded Love", as well as some of the many other "early" songs on the other expensive set, "San Antonio Rose."
In the meantime, I'll be quite happy and content listening to plenty of abundant fun and energy on "Take Me Back to Tulsa!" |
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 Not what I expected
Submitted on: 2009-03-16 |
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If you're a country music fan like myself, you have invariably heard about Bob Wills; either through Waylon Jennings song about him or Merle Haggard's cover of Faded Love.
Before I bought this cd I had heard a few of their songs: Faded Love and Lonestar Beer to name a few. The versions of them must have been remastered or something, because the sound quality of those versions is much better than the sound quality of these cds. The cds aren't terrible quality, as in the Ernest Tubbs collection that is made from the same manufacturer, but it is far from what I had heard from him elsewhere.
Well to start this is NOT country music. Really its not even close. In fact, if replaced the fiddles and steel guitars with trumpets and maybe saxophones, you would have big band music with maybe country vocals.
Also there is some stuff here that is way to bluesy for my tastes and I HATE blues music.
I will give them this: the vocalist is very talented and the fiddle playing is very good; in fact the musicianship is top quality. But as a country music fan, this music is really not my cup of tea.
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Astounding
Submitted on: 2009-03-05 |
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| I am blown away by this 4-CD box set. The music sounds great. The mastering is superb. The musicianship is incredible, as is the energy. Brilliant solos. Great songs. I just don't get tired of Bob. Nice 36-page narrative plus discography. All very well packaged. Recommended highly at any price, and the actual price is insanely low. |
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Timeless Wonder
Submitted on: 2008-10-26 |
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I heard about Bob Wills a long time ago via Waylon Jennings ("Bob Wills is Still the King"). 20 years later I decided to find out what all the fuss was about.
I found out.
His sense of style, musical mastery and storytelling is in a league of its own.
Something else though.....sure, he does his share of "she took my dog, she took my pick-up truck"....however his music has a joy, rhythm and optimism that lifts the soul.
This compilation is too good to be true - the quality, the quantity, the price - what's going on here?
And Tommy Donkin (that's how I heard his name pronounced by Waylon for those 20 years) has a voice to enjoy and love.
This is a Box Set (4 discs, more than 100 songs)from heaven, even for someone who's not been within 8,000 miles of Texas. |
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Ding Dong Daddy done diddly do
Submitted on: 2008-10-12 |
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Bob Wills and His Tx Playboys featuring Tommy Duncan on vocals and the amazing Leon McAuliffe on slide guitar evokes the pure American experience of pleasure, pain, and persuasion by the way of a Saturday dance.
Bob Wills/Band were the foremost example of a time and tempo of true Southwest 1940's 50's or so ya think. Bob Wills was as much a Big Band hero as Tommy Dorsey, Glen Miller, etc.. maybe more as he toured endlessly and loved his audience.
This 4 CD set has a hundred recordings and a booklet well worth the bargain price. It has more grins to the ear than a halloween pumpkin. |
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