 | | |
| | Legends of Country Music | | | Music Artist : | | Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Sony | | Release Date : | | 2006-08-29 | | Store Price : | | $39.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $26.97 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
|
|
|
|
|
CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Sunbonnet Sue - Fort Worth Doughboys
2. Nancy Jane - 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. Sittin' on Top of the World
11. I Can't Be Satisfied
12. Waltz in D
13. She's Killing Me
14. Bluin' the Blues
15. Steel Guitar Rag
16. Trouble in Mind
17. What's the Matter with the Mill
18. Basin Street Blues
19. Red Hot Gal of Mine
20. Too Busy
21. Crippled Turkey
22. Bring It on Down to My House, Honey
23. Right or Wrong
24. Swing Blues #1
25. White Heat
Disc 21. Steel Guitar Stomp
2. Rosetta
3. Blue Yodel #1
4. I'm a Ding Dong Daddy (From Dumas)
5. Oozlin' Daddy Blues
6. Black Rider
7. Down Hearted Blues
8. Pray for the Lights to Go Out
9. San Antonio Rose
10. Silver Bells
11. Beaumont Rag
12. Whoa Babe
13. Ida Red
14. Yearning
15. I Wonder If You Feel the Way I Do
16. Prosperity Special
17. You're Okay
18. Liza Pull Down the Shades
19. That's What I Like 'Bout the South
20. My Window Faces the South
21. Don't Let the Deal Go Down
22. Lone Star Rag
23. That Brownskin Gal
24. Corrine Corrina
25. Time Changes Everything
26. Bob Wills Special
27. Big Beaver
Disc 31. New San Antonio Rose
2. Liebestraum
3. Lyla Lou
4. Maiden's Prayer
5. Girl I Left Behind Me
6. I Knew the Moment I Lost You
7. Twin Guitar Special
8. Take Me Back to Tulsa
9. Takin' It Home
10. Cherokee Maiden
11. Dusty Skies
12. My Life's Been a Pleasure
13. Drop Us off at Bob's Place
14. Home in San Antone
15. That Hot Lick Fiddlin' Man
16. Miss Molly
17. My Confession
18. Ten Years
19. Let's Ride with Bob
20. Bluer Than Blue
21. Hand Your Head in Shame
22. Texas Playboy Rag
23. Roly Poly
24. Stay a Little Longer
25. I Can't Go on This Way
26. I'm Thru Wasting Time on You
27. New Spanish Two Step
Disc 41. Sugar Moon
2. Brain Cloudy Blues
3. Bob Wills Boogie
4. Fat Boy Rag
5. Kind of Love I Can't Forget
6. Hometown Stomp
7. Misery
8. Deep Water
9. Bubbles in My Beer
10. Papa's Jumpin'
11. Sally Goodin'
12. Still Water Runs the Deepest
13. Blues for Dixie
14. Keeper of My Heart
15. Ida Red Likes to Boogie
16. Boot Heel Drag
17. Faded Love
18. St. Louis Blues
19. Cadillac in Model "A"
20. Heart to Heart Talk
21. Wabash Blues
22. Big Ball in Cowtown (We'll Dance Around)
23. Pan Handle Rag
24. Blue Bonnet Lane
25. What Makes Bob Holler
26. Goin' Away Party
| |
Other Artist Albums
|
|
|
|
Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
|
 Love Western Swing
Submitted on: 2007-06-07 |
|
| My husband and I have been a Bob Wills fan for many years. He is 80 and a collector of Bob Wills music. He was truly the "King of Western Swing" and this is a wonderful collection of his music. |
|
|
|
Terrific Western Swing
Submitted on: 2007-05-06 |
|
| I own other Bob Wills recordings, but this is the most comprehensive. It's not really country music at all...It has its own kind of energy and incorporates various styles of music. It's inventive and ageless and it's just pure pleasure to hear. |
|
|
|
 Legends of Country Music
Submitted on: 2007-04-10 |
|
| Really a good set, with a lot of original recordings. If you like original Texas swing, this is a must box set for your collection |
|
|
|
What makes Bob holler?
Submitted on: 2006-10-02 |
|
I must own about 30 Bob Wills cd's and this has made many of them obsolete. If you are a Bob Wills fan there is no need for me to convince you of Will's and his band's virtuosity. For those of you who aren't familiar with Bob Wills and western swing music, I think you owe it a hearing. Wills mixed blues, jazz, big band, and western music and literally invented what we know as western swing. The list of great musicians who played with this band are impressive. Not many people realize that Rolling Stone magazine selected Eldon Shamblin as the greatest rhythm guitar player of all time.
The recording quality of this cd is so far above everything else I've heard that it must be stressed here.
What makes Bob Holler? If he were alive today this reproduction of his great music would!
|
|
|
|
A moving tribute to a great musician !
Submitted on: 2006-09-22 |
|
Born to a poor family in Limestone County, Texas, Bob Wills (the undisputed "King of Western Swing") has become synonymous with that style of music. In 2006, this 4-disc release in Columbia "Legends of Country Music" series is a great way to celebrate his centennial! Wills had learned to play the fiddle by age ten. By the late 1920s, he and Herman Arnspiger were performing in the Fort Worth area as The Wills Fiddle Band. In 1931, they were joined by Milton & Durwood Brown and called themselves Aladdin's Laddies. Disc #1 in this set begins in 1932 with recordings of The Light Crust Doughboys, the band formed after the Light Crust Flour Co. hired the band for radio broadcasts. Because of a trademark, Victor Records called them The Fort Worth Doughboys. By 1934, Wills had formed his own band, moved to Tulsa, and signed with Okeh Records. Disc #2 covers 1937-1940, and disc #3 spans 1941-45. Disc #4 begins with 1946 and ends with Bob Wills' final session (1973 in Dallas).
It's important for such compilations to include a musician's big hits, as well as a sampling of their entire repertoire and influential pieces. We hear many favorites like "Big Ball in Cowtown," "Bubbles In My Beer," "Roly Poly," "Take Me Back to Tulsa" and "Stay A Little Longer." "San Antonio Rose" and "New San Antonio Rose" are both included, the former written in just 30 minutes when Wills needed another number at a recording session. Pandhandle Rag was a top ten hit in 1949. We're given the 1969 version here. Leon McAuliffe's influential "Steel Guitar Rag" appears on disc #1. In the 1960, Wills made the charts with "Shape Up or Ship Out" and "I Don't Love Nobody." Unfortunately, these songs are not provided. And how in the heck could they not have included "Across the Alley from the Alamo"? Oh well ... can't have everything.
With 105 tracks in total, this compilation certainly tells the musical story with both old-time fiddling (e.g. Osage Stomp) and country-styled jazz (e.g. Trouble in Mind, Basin Street Blues) well represented. But don't forget about the times that Bob Wills lived and played his music in, just after the Depression. Many of his fans were poor, the working folks in need of a charismatic performer to look up to. Somewhat of a folk hero, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys traveled the backroads to rural areas in a large bus with a big longhorn steer head on the front. With heavy emphasis on the backbeat and guitar chords played over a moving bass line, the music was infectious an designed for dancing. And then there were the great lyrics, often sung by the great Tommy Duncan. Excellent notes, in a booklet with many excellent historic photographs, are an added bonus in this legends series. All I can say, is that it's a moving tribute to a great musician. So, to quote Bob Wills, "Aaaaa-haaaa!" (Joe Ross, Roseburg, OR.)
|
|
|
|
